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