[Verse 1]
Em
Emma Rumble Emma Rumble
C
Your black hair's hanging low
D
Your naked arms are glistening And frozen from the snow
Em C
Emma Rumble Emma tell me For if you don't let me know
D
My heart's already taken So tomorrow I will go
G C
Emma gladly I'll stay with thee Only if just for tonight
D C
I will read the lines between your palms
B A
Just move into the light
G
And let it bathe you let me know you
C
You who have been so confined
D Em
By the beauty that you suffer's
B Em
Why your hair is growing white
A Em
Your hair is growing white
[Verse 2]
Em
Emma Rumble Emma Rumble
C
Why do you stir in such distress?
D
Late in the evening you were sleeping You were dreaming I should guess
Em
Do not touch me do not hold me
C
You cried it was useless
D
And implied to me through wild eyes Those things you can't confess
G
Emma sadly I must leave thee
C
As my true love waits alone
D C
On the porch step in the moonlight
B A
She looks out and through the cold
G C
If I kiss you I must kill you You told me in gentle tones
D Em
Emma Rumble do not wait for me
B Em
I'll see you down the road
A Em
I'll see you down the road
[intrumental]
Am C D
[Verse 3]
Em
In my hometown the sheriff found
C
My true love in the snow
D
Her body lay beaten there And covered in your clothes
Em
Emma Rumble Emma Rumble
C
I cry as my shotgun loads
D
The night is hot and heavy now
Em
And I'm walking down the road
A Em
I'm walking down the road
Am C
I'm walking down the road
[Outro]
D Em