Doug Buchanan - The Halsey Dam
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: EmCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
[85 bpm]
Em G D Em
Em G D Em
[Verse 1]
Em G
If you go down by the river
D Em
Well below the Halsey Dam
Em G
Ezra tells a little story
D Em
How they stripped the rich black land
Em G
There's a place they call "the company"
D Em
When you go you'll never come back
[Chorus]
A Em
Dont you go way down there
Em A Em
you gotta know they dont care
G D
if you live or if you die
A Em /// Em ///
that 'ol river's gonna pass you by
[Verse 2]
Em G
well his name was Ezra Wheeler
D Em
he dug the coal in the halsey mine
Em G
his daddy was a moonshine dealer
D Em
he's been in jail for a long long time
[Chorus]
A Em
Dont you go way down there
Em A Em
you gotta know they dont care
G D
if you live or if you die
A Em /// Em ///
that 'ol river's gonna pass you by
[Verse 3]
Em G
Ezra had to go to work there
D Em
he was just a boy of nine
Em G
his daddy said you'll never make it
D Em
go on home and sell that shine
[Chorus]
A Em
Dont you go way down there
Em A Em
you gotta know they dont care
G D
if you live or if you die
A Em /// Em ///
that 'ol river's gonna pass you by
[Verse 4, quieter]
Em G
Black smoke rolls out the chimney
D Em
from an old wood burnin, stove
Em G
Ezra makes the whiskey
D Em ///
like his Daddy told him so
[Ending Spoken, Acoustic held chords]
Em G
If you go down by the river
D Em
Well below the Halsey Dam
Em G
Ezra tells a little story
D Em /// /
How they stripped the rich black land
[Chorus all in]
/ A Em
Dont you go way down there
Em A Em
you gotta know they dont care
G D
if you live or if you die
A Em //
that 'ol river's gonna pass you by
[TAG]
/ G D
if you live or if you die
A Em
that 'ol river's gonna pass you by (hold)
How to play Doug Buchanan - The Halsey Dam
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