The Bottomless Hole

Am (A2) C G Am My name I don’t remember though I hail from Ohio Am (A2) C F C ( A2) I had a wife and children, good tires on my car F C (A2) Am What took me from my home and put me in the earth F E Am Was the mouth of the deep dark hole I found behind my barn Am (A2) C G Am We’d been filling it with garbage as long as you could count Am (A2) C F C ( A2) Kitchen scraps and dead cows, tractors broken down F C (A2) Am But never did I hear one thing hit the ground F E Am And slowly I came to fear, that this was a bottomless hole Am (A2) C G Am I went out behind the barn and stared down in that hole Am (A2) C F C ( A2) Late into the evening, my mind would not let go F C (A2) Am So I got out my ropes and a rusty claw foot tub F E Am And I rigged myself a chariot to ride down in that hole Am (A2) C G Am My wife she did help me, she fed me down the ropes Am (A2) C F C ( A2) And then I sank away from the surface of this world F C (A2) Am When the last rope pulled tight, I had not reached the end F E Am And in anger I swung there down in that dark abyss Am (A2) C G Am So I got out my knife, I told my wife goodbye Am (A2) C F C ( A2) I cut loose from the ropes and fell on down that hole F C (A2) Am And still I am there falling down in this evil pit F E Am But until I hit the bottom I won’t believe it’s bottomless Outro: Am F E Am