Standard (EADGBE)
Elizabeth that thundercloud is creeping up the Empire Hill
There's shadows on the over-pass
And puddles in the old dirt path
Peoria lay silent still in the belly of the overgrown
All quiet on the open plain
Footprints to the family plot
Where evermore will restless sorrow sleep in a broken heap
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Cemetery guns go bang, bang, bang
Shooting all the sky full of holes
Twenty-one times in a row
For the blue war widow in the gray raincoat
On the green grass down below
Elizabeth our fathers came and settled where the ground was flat
Drew water from the Indian wells
Cut timber from the rolling fells
Grandaddy-o bled hearth and home for oiling the comp'ny gears
No rest for the errant ones
Godspeed their a-reckless sons
Who evermore play their forefathers' hands on the foreign sands
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Cemetery guns go bang, bang, bang
Shooting all the sky full of holes
Twenty-one times in a row
For the blue war widow in the gray raincoat
On the green grass down below
Cemetery guns go bang, bang, bang
Shooting all the sky full of holes
Twenty-one times in a row
For the blue war widow in the gray raincoat
On the green grass down below
in the verse is essentially a walk up from the Em chord to the chord. It can
be played as a full chord, or as a bass note.