My Father's House Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

C♯Last night I dreamed that F♯I was a cC♯hild

C♯Out Where the pines grow wild and G♯tall

 I was C♯trying to F♯make it home through the forC♯est

 Before the darG♯kness C♯falls

C♯I heard the wind rustling F♯through the tC♯rees

C♯And ghostly voices rose from the G♯fields

 I ran with my heart C♯pounding F♯down that broken C♯path

C♯With the devil G♯snappin' at my C♯heels

 I broke through the trees, and tF♯here in the C♯night

C♯My father's house stood shining hard and G♯bright

 The branches and C♯brambles F♯tore my clothes and scratched my C♯arms

 But I ran till I fell, G♯shaking in his C♯arms

Solo

C♯I awoke and I imagined the F♯hard things that pulled us C♯apart

 Will never again, sir, tear us from each other's G♯hearts

 I got C♯dressed, and to that F♯house I did C♯ride from out on the road,

 I could see hG♯is windows shining in C♯light

 I walked up the C♯steps and F♯stood on the C♯porch

C♯A woman I didn't recognize

 Came and spoke to me through a chained G♯door

 I told her my C♯story, and F♯who I'd come C♯for

 She said "I'm sorry but but no one by that G♯name lives here anymC♯ore

Solo

C♯My father's house shines F♯hard and C♯bright

C♯it stands like a beacon calling me in the G♯night

 Calling and C♯calling, so F♯cold and aC♯lone

 Shining `cross this dark highway where all our G♯sins lie unatoC♯ned

From Emmylou Harris "Thirteen"

Warner Brothers Records 1986