Capo 3rd fret

Standard (EADGBE)

I met a sister in the dead of night

A gin-soaked smile, worn just right

Her eyes half-blazed with the color of the rising sun

"Please help keep my baby fed"

A parade of silence filled my head

I walked on past, my conscience keeps me on the run--

Well my eyes have seen the coming of this feeling

Where's your pity now? You've lost the strength somehow

When you've swallowed so much shit your head is reeling

and you don't feel a thing no more

Immune to all life has in store

Are there Sundays now?

I met a brother on the picket line

Blistered hands a lot like mine

Leathered skin worn in by the lessons of age

I'll fight the man to my dying day

Scabs walk in and take my pay

I pray this story even makes it to the second page--

Chorus

Like an angel fell by sin,

once you're gone it's so damn hard

to get back up again

and I've seen my feelings whirl away

Don't look now, you're headed for a drop that falls like rain

I met a woman with a frozen smile

took her hand and walked a while

Swore out loud the woman was the world to me

A year or two went through the door

I couldn't feel her anymore

I knew deep down tomorrow was the place to be--