Blood On My Hands

Intro | Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G| Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G [Verso 1] Am Am Am Am There’s blood on my hands but it’s my own if you can understand, E E Am Am I’m building a home, forming mud into stones. Am Am Am Am The sweat drips from my brow, I got me some land but I can’t have a cows E E Am Am around 'cause nothing grows from the ground. [Refrão] F C C E7 Am Am The lighting strikes the ground but you can barely hear a sound. F C C E7 Am Am The rain it finally comes, well, you can smell what keeps me around E in this unforgiving land, with no water in the Interlude ground. Interlude | Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G| Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G | [Verso 2] Am Am Am The snake eats at my flesh, the sun burns my skin, Am E E Am Am the wind dries me out, at night it gets colder than ice. Am Am Am I must bid thee farewell, the land that I love, Am E E Am Am you’ve taken so much from me, I fear I’ll never be free. [Refrão] F C C E7 Am Am The lighting strikes the ground and you can barely hear a sound. F C C E7 Am And the rain it finally comes, well, you can smell what keeps me around Am E in this god forsaken land, with no water in the Interlude ground/ Interlude | Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G | Am Am/E | Am Am/E Am/G | Outro Dm Am E Am And death surely follows a man like me, Dm Am E the desert will swallow me whole. Dm Am E Am And I ride like a cowboy with no worries to bind me Dm Am E to that old life of mine in the east. Am Oh, Lord take me west.