Townes Van Zandt – Black Crow Blues (Guitar)

Capo 3
Key
-

Auto-scroll

Chords

[Verse 1]
   Am              G                    Am
Oh babe, don't lie lonesome after I'm gone

Am               G           Am
Don't mourn your young life away

     Dm                   G             Am
Just lower me down with a prayer and a song

G                           Am
 Just 'fore the breaking of day

G                           Am
 Just 'fore the breaking of day
[Verse 2]
             Am             G                       Am
Well, it's a life worth the living but we all gotta die

         Am           G        Am
All your crying can't do me no good

     Dm                   G              Am
Just lower me down with a quick sad goodbye

G                         Am
 Pour in the black Texas mud

G                         Am
 Pour in the black Texas mud
[Verse 3]
       Am               G                              Am
It's a hard road you're travelin', you can't walk it alone

       Am         G            Am
Find a big man to stand beside you

         Dm                    G           Am
Take him down to the river and show him my bones

         G                           Am
Tell him there lies a friend I once knew

G                           Am
There lies a friend I once knew
[Verse 4]
          Am             G                            Am
Well, the black crow's a-screaming, the yellow sun's warm

        Am            G             Am
And the grass tumbles tall down the hill

              Dm                       G            Am
But there's a cold wind building, it's bringin' a storm

         G                           Am
When the call of the black crow goes still

         G                           Am
When the call of the black crow goes still