Capo 2nd fret
Standard (EADGBE)
C C g Am x2 for the verse x2 in between verses and chorus
C G F7 Am x 2 for the chorus
x2 for the other part
Listen to the song for the hammer ons
Verse 1
Remember when our songs were just like prayer.
Like gospel hymns that you call in the air.
Come down, come down, sweet reverent
Until my simple heart sound ring.
And ring.
Chorus
Ring like silver, ring like gold.
Ring out those ghosts on the Ohio.
Ring like clear day wedding bells,
In the belly of the beast or the sword that fell.
I'll never tell.
Bridge
They come to me, clear and cold.
Some say
The Wives of Earl, spinning weaves
At that machine.
Verse 2
I've gone crazy, couldn't you tell.
I threw stones at the stars but the whole sky fell.
Now I'm covered up in straw belly, up on a table.
And I drank and sang and passed in the stable.
Mm-hmm...
x2
Verse 3
That tall grass grows high and brown.
Well I drank you straight in the muddy ground.
And you sent me back to where I roam.
Well I cursed and I cried but now I know.
Oh, now I know...
Verse 4
And I ran back to that hollow again,
The moon was just a sliver back then,
And I ached for my heart like some tin man.
When it came, oh, it beat, and it boiled, and it rang.
Oh it's ringing.
Chorus
Ring like crazy, ring like hell.
Turn me back into that wild-haired gale.
Ring like silver, ring like gold.
Turn these diamonds straight back into gold.
Turn these diamonds straight back into gold.
It's as right as I could get it without the other instruments or Gregory sitting there with me.