I have been playing this on a tenor drop G uke
but it doesn't really matter For the Bbadd9
just play a Bb add a C on the A string OR just drop the D
that you normally play on the C string
Verse: F Am Bb9 F C
Chorus: Bb9 F Bb9 C
Intro:
F Am Bb9 F C
Verse 1:
F
In our days we will live
Am
Like our ghosts will live
Bb9 F
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows
C
And folding clothes
Verse 2:
F
Like stubborn boys across the road
Am
We'll keep everything
Bb9 F
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw
C
That took her dog
Verse 3:
F
When sister Laurie says Amen
Am
We won't hear anything
Bb9 F
The ten-car trains will take that word
C
That fledgling bird
Verse 4:
F
And the fallen house across the way
Am
It'll keep everything
Bb9
The baby's breath
F C
Our bravery wasted and our shame
Chorus:
Bb9 F
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Bb9 C
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire
Bb9 F
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Bb9 C
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern
Verse 5
In our days we will say
What our ghosts will say
We gave the world what it saw fit
And what'd we get
Verse 6
Like stubborn boys with big green eyes
We'll see everything
In the tender shade of the autumn leaves
And the buzzard's wing
Chorus
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire
Our tender bellies are wound around in baling wire
All the more a pair of underwater pearls
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern
Then Sam plays the verse chords once more and ends on an F