C F7
Remember when our songs were just like prayers
C Cadd9 Am F7
Like gospel hymns that you called in the air
C F7
Come down come down sweet reverence
C Cadd9 Am F7
Unto my simple house and ring
And ring
F7 C F7
Ring like silver ring like gold
C Cadd9 Am F7
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio
F7 C F7
Ring like clear day wedding bells
C Cadd9 Am F7
Were we the belly of the beast or the sword that fell
C
We’ll never tell
Em F7 C F7 C
Come to me clear and cold on some sea
Em F7 C G
Watch the world spinning waves like that machine
Now I’ve been crazy couldn’t you tell
I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell
Now I’m covered up in straw belly up on the table
Well I drank and sang and passed in the stable
That tall grass grows high and brown
Well I dragged you straight in the muddy ground
And you sent me back to where I roam
Well I cursed and I cried but now i know
now I know
And I ran back to that hollow again
The moon was just a sliver back then
And I ached for my heart like some tin man
When it came oh it beat and it boiled and it rang
oh it's ringing
F7 C F7
Ring like crazy ring like hell
C Cadd9 Am F7
Turn me back into that wild haired gale
F7 C F7
Ring like silver ring like gold
C Cadd9 F7
Turn these diamonds straight back into coal