Henryville

Intro F G Am Bb Am G F [Verso 1] F G Am Bb Am G F As strange as it seems, nobody from Greene had ever once seen Henryville F G Am Bb Am G F As close as it was, you'd've thought they'd've would, but they hadn't and that's how it was still Bb Am G F And since general consensus was Greene was like heaven and heaven was almost like Greene F G Am Bb Am G F Why people went missing was less of a mystery than why they'd ever decided to leave [Verso 2] F G Am Bb Am G F The stage thusly set, our hero enters lft, Bill Nettle's kid lonely and man F G Am Bb Am G F A long way from town, drunk way out of tune, upsetted, bull-headed, obscene Bb Am G F He was seen from the summit of Big Picnic Hill and all Henryville church bells went wild F G Am Bb Am G F And the whole pretty town went to throw roses down at the feet of Bill Nettle's child [Verso 3] F G Am Bb Am G F He was kicking a rock and singing a song of his own composition when he F G Am Bb Am G F Saw a blizzard of petals and looked up unsettled at what he proceeded to see Bb Am G F Maybe five hundred people, their joy unconcealed, their arms full of roses in bloom F G Am Bb Am G F And all of them smiling in welcome at him with faces as pale as moon [Verso 4] F G Am Bb Am G F Bill Nettle had never thought much of his son, and none of the people from Greene F G Am Bb Am G F Had thought it that proper to do more than the father so the boy grew up lonely and mean Bb Am G F But as sixteen white horses drew a carriage of golden and a whole pretty brass band behind F G Am Bb Am G F The boy who folks thought would never add up to nothing like Apollo the Sun King did ride [Ponte] F Bb F C Oh, Henryville, Henryville, how to describe what to others must feel like a dream F Bb F Such pretty white houses and pretty white buildings and pretty white marble-lined streets Bb F Bb F And wrapped all around it, in knots and in tangles, the prettiest roses entwined F G Am Bb Am G F And all of them open and screaming in crimson at Bill Nettle's son as he rode by [Verso 5] F G Am Bb Am G F When they got to the top of Big Picnic Hill, the whole parade came to a halt F G Am Bb Am G F And the girl that the women had chosen to be the Queen of the Harvest was called Bb Am G F The mayor gave a speech that went on way too long and then all pretty Henryville watched F G Am Bb Am G F As the Queen of the Harvest set to beating the brains out of Bill Nettle's boy with a rock [Verso 6] F G Am Bb Am G F A lot of stuff happened in the hours that followed that don't need repeating, so just F G Am Bb Am G F Imagine whatever you'd like to imagine when you like to imagine that stuff Bb Am G F But with all of the singing and praying and dancing, well, nobody noticed the Queen F G Am Bb Am G F Of the Harvest in all her ferocious attire with a rock in her hand turn towards Greene F G Am Bb Am G F Of the Harvest in all her ferocious attire with a rock in her hand turn towards Greene