Gathering Flowers From The Hillside
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
"Gathering Flowers from the Hillside" - The Carter Family (with Johnny Cash)
Track 11 of 12 on the album "Keep on the Sunny Side" (1964)
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[Intro]
G D7 G
[Chorus]
G
I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
D7
To wreath around your brow
G
But you've kept me a-waiting so long, dear
D7 G
The flowers have all withered now
[Verse 1]
G
It was on one bright June morning
D7
The roses were in bloom
G
I shot and killed my darling
D7 G G7
And what will be my doom?
[Chorus]
C
I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
G7
To wreath around your brow
C
But you've kept me a-waiting so long, dear
G7 C
The flowers have all withered now
[Interlude]
C
G7
C
G7 C
[Verse 2]
C
I know that you have seen trouble
G7
But never hang down your head
C
Your love for me is like the flowers
G7 C
Your love for me is dead
[Chorus]
C
I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
G7
To wreath around your brow
C
But you've kept me a-waiting so long, dear
G7 C C7
The flowers have all withered now
[Verse 3]
F
Closed eyes cannot see these roses
C7
Closed hands cannot hold them, I know
F
Closed lips cannot kiss, my darling
C7 F
You're gone from me forevermore
[Chorus]
F
I've been gathering flowers from the hillside
C7
To wreath around your brow
F
But you've kept me a-waiting so long, dear
C7 F
The flowers have all withered now
[Outro]
F C7 F
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