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F - (As transcribed above)
On the old forgotten crossways where the fourteen rivers did meet
F
The bones of our elders were lying in the street
F
On the dark and dusty desert like a ghost I've flown
F
I barely cried wherever I'd ride I ride I never found a home
A# C F
Woe on me
Gm C
Somehow I will feel more free
F A#
To wallow in the empty headed peace
Gm C
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease
F
I am just a ramshackle I go from town to town
F
Where there is no shelter I lay down on the grown
F
I've killed for no reason I've pissed upon a kind
F
Cost them all and burned the bone when I've had the time
A# C F
Woe on me
Gm C
Somehow I will feel more free
F A#
To wallow in the empty headed peace
Gm C
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease
F
Well there's saints and there are animals they've taken what they could
F
And it's written in the pages to do just what they should
F
Well they stood the test and burned the rest and tore them limb from limb
F
Like a fashion with no passion they open up their skin
A# C F
Woe on me
Gm C
Somehow I will feel more free
F A#
To wallow in the empty headed peace
Gm C
Where the plain hearted sorrows never cease