Tonart: E minor
Verse 1
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D
The
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year old painted pallid gray,
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G
the storm was coming in.
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Em
Folks were lining out in all directions.
Me and 'Hord' and Henry Short
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G
were pitching on the skiff,
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Trying to make it home be
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Em
fore the night
Bm
A
And the gray waves were rolling.
Verse 2
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Bold the brave, brave ocean and
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Em
G
roll the suckers in.
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Well I don't keep to goings on,
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G
I tend to stick with kin,
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But Watson had it in
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from the beginning.
Verse 3
Em
Built that house on Chatham bed,
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wine wash knotted pine.
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Ninety acres 'bur
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rowed' for the cane
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A
He drove it down from Georgia,
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A
His dad a martyred soldier in the
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war between the states.
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Verse 4
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D
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Lord, bring down the flood.
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D
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Em
Wash away the blood. Drown these everglades,
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Em
and put us in our place.
Bm
C
We laid Edgar Watson in his grave.
We laid him in his grave.
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G
Em
Verse 5
D
Em
'Till I'm dust I'll never know
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why he came ashore,
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With all those killers gathered
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on the shoreline.
Kicking holes in ugly mud,
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trigger fingers pinched,
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Brace your rifles, bristled in the wind.
Bm
A
And we towed his body northbound,
Bm
A
Buried him all face down with
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G
Verse 6
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D
C
Lord, bring down down the flood.
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G
D
Wash away the blood.
Em
G
D
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Everglades, put us in our place.
Bm
C
We laid Edgar Watson in his grave.
Em
We laid him in his grave.
We laid him in his grave.
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We laid him in his grave.
Outro 1
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