Waylon Jennings – Rock Salt And Nails (Guitar)

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[Intro] F C F [Verse]
                    F                            Dm
By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold

           Bb                          F
Wild birds warble the strange sounding song

                    Bb                         F
By the banks of the river where the waters run cold

                  Bb                            F
Was there I first listened to the lies that she told
[Riff] F C F [Verse 2]
                   F                      Dm
He lays there each night all alone and he weeps

              Bb                         F
Nothing ain't worse than a night without sleep

                Bb                             F
The letters she wrote him they were written in vain

                    Bb                         F
But I know that her conscience still echoes my name
[Riff] F C F [Verse 3]
                   F                              Dm
If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were thrushes

                  Bb                      F
I'd lay there for hours in the cold rainy marshes

                   Bb                                F
If the ladies were squirrels (yeah) with a big bushy tail

               Bb                         F
I'd fill up my shotgun with-a rock salt and nails
[Outro]
                 Bb                            F
We'd fill up our shotguns with-a rock salt and nails