Tom Waits – Widows Grove (Guitar)

      A                    F#m             C#m
I met you in the saddle, I rode you in the dust

          A                                G            E
Held your hand to the heavens, pulled your heart to the earth

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There was something that blinded me more than the mist

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The breath of the cottonwood buds lighter yet

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And you rode the maypole of dance hall legs

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and galloped to another's embrace

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And I bit the flowers from your wrist corsage

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You waltzed too slowly, too slowly you waltzed

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With that girl from Widow's Grove

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Near the breath of a swallow, petals dropped as you fell

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And you grabbed and shyly held me, against the stone cold well

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In your hand was a glass, you held the ice against the night

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It dripped and it sparkled and I laughed a wish

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Before it all slipped down the dark tunneled well

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I heard it melt quietly and I looked at you

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Bent to the earth, with just one pleading wish

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Your skirts brushed to the furious pounding

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Oh I'd follow you to the river

     A      E          A      E
That washes out to the sea

E           A                 Bm        E         A
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night

       Bm    E    A
That's where I'll be

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I hid in the elm and raised the bough, that hung even with your neck

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Then I chased you and drowned you, there deep in the well

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And when your mouth was full and wet, I swallowed all your reckless fate

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And with your last breath you moaned too drunk to wake

       A      E          A         E
Oh I'd follow you to the river

     A      E          A      E
That washes out to the sea

E           A                 Bm        E         A
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night

       Bm    E    A
That's where I'll be

            A                 Bm        E         A
Through the wind, through the rain of a cold dark night

       Bm    E    A
That's where I'll be