Stone Above Your Head - Wrinkle Neck Mules
Track 2 - Apprentice to Ghosts (2012)
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Standard Tuning; all power chords (5ths)
[Intro]
E5 D5 A5 E5 x2
[VERSE]
E5 D5
Take your harvest from the soil
A5 E5
That is blacker than the color of the coal
E5 D5
But you’re never gonna keep anything you try to reap
A5 E5
If you pull it from the dusty Georgia bowl
[VERSE]
E5 D5
All the blossoms from the Magnolia
A5 E5
Have shriveled up and fallen to the ground
E5 D5
And I know I should have told you
A5 E5
That the rust was gonna tear your engine down
F#5 F#5 G#5 A5
[CHORUS]
E5 B5
When the stone’s above your head
A5 E5
And they’re driving in the nails
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re gone what kind of song they gonna sing?
E5 D5
When the clay falls upon the pine
A5 E5
All that remains is what you leave behind
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re lying with that stone above your head
E5 D5 A5 E5 x2
[VERSE]
E5 D5
Sit and listen, tune them in
A5 E5
Hear the trials and the hardships of my kin
E5 D5
Taken by the tones of the "Cactus and the Rose"
A5 E5
And the rhymes that Garry Stewart used to spin
[VERSE]
E5 D5
All the easy people running to me
A5 E5
You can see their chickens running through the yard
E5 D5
Put them on the table every Sunday
A5 E5
Then they bow their heads and give thanks to the Lord
F#5 F#5 G#5 A5
[CHORUS]
E5 B5
When the stone’s above your head
A5 E5
And they’re driving in the nails
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re gone what kind of song they gonna sing?
E5 D5
When the clay falls upon the pine
A5 E5
All that remains is what you leave behind
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re lying with that stone above your head
[SOLO]
E5 D5 A5 E5 x2
F#5 F#5 G#5 A5
[CHORUS]
E5 B5
When the stone’s above your head
A5 E5
And they’re driving in the nails
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re gone what kind of song they gonna sing?
E5 D5
When the clay falls upon the pine
A5 E5
All that remains is what you leave behind
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re lying with that stone above your head
E5 F#5 A5
When you’re lying with that stone above your head
E5 D5 A5 E5 x2