Tonart: B minor•
Verse 1
Jenkins
lived about a half a mile from town
F#
Not too far, not too near, but in between
Bm
She lived in a big white house
with flowers in the yard
F#
Bm
Ivy climbing up the window screen
One morning when the old gray rooster
crowed the coming dawn
Mary
F#
Jenkins rose up from her bed
Bm
She dressed in aid and went outside
to do her daily chores
F#
To milk the cows and get the
Bm
Cm
Bm
G
chickens fed
G#
Cm
She gathered eggs, slopped the hogs,
went out to the barn
G
Pitched up the sorrel and the roam
Cm
Then she climbed into her buggy
and gave the reins a flick
G
Cm
Rode toward the depot all alone
She waited for an hour and the
train came a -rollin' in
G
She backed the team into the station yard
Cm
And a coffin wasn't loaded
in place to board her rig
G
She rode back to her farm without
Cm
G
Bm
C#m
a word
She hired some boys to dig the grave
and help her with the box
While the heat of the noonday
C#m
She took off the flag and metal
that fastened to the lid
Filled the hole and stuck
G#
Dbm
the cross into the ground
Then she sat down in her rocking
chair to rest a little while
G#
And once again by candlelight she read
C#m
That let ter with the solemn words
and fancy foreign names
Then she rocked a while, prayed,
G#
C#m
put out the light, and went to bed
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