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