Intro: G D D G D D D G D
Verse:
D G
Remember when our songs were just like prayers.
D D Bm G
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air.
D G
Come down come down sweet reverence,
D D Bm G
unto my simple house and ring...and ring.
Interlude:
D G -x3-
D D Bm G
D G D
Chorus:
G D G
Ring like silver, ring like gold
D D Bm G
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
G D G
Ring like clear day wedding bells
D D Bm G
We’re we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell...we'll never tell.
Interlude:
D G
D G
D D G
D D Bm D D
D
Bridge:
Gbm G D G D
Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Gbm G D A
Watch the world spinning waves...like machines
Verse:
D G
Now I,ve been crazy couldn't you tell
D D Bm G
I threw stones at the stars, but the whole sky fell.
D G
Now I'm covered up in straw, belly up on the table
D D Bm G
Well and drank and sang, and passed in the stable.
Interlude: D G D
Bridge:
Gbm G D G D
Gbm G D A
Intro: G D D G D D D G D
Verse:
D G
That tall grass grows high and brown,
D D Bm G
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
D G
and you sent me back to where I roam
D D Bm G
Well I cursed and I cried, but now I know...now I know
Interlude: D G D
Verse:
D D G
and I ran back to that hollow again
D D Bm G
The moon was just as sliver back then
D D G
and I ached for my hear like some tin man
D D Bm G
When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang...it's ringing
Interlude: D G D
Chorus:
G D G
Ring like crazy, ring like hell
D D Bm G
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
G D G
Ring like silver, ring like gold
D D Bm G
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal.
Outro:
D G -x3-
D D Bm G
D G