[Verse]
Cadd9 Am
Heart-carved tree trunk, Yankee bayonet
Cadd9 Am
A sweetheart left behind
Cadd9 Am
Far from the hills and the sea-swal'ed Carolinas
Cadd9 Am
That's where my true love lies
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Verse]
Cadd9 Am
Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
Cadd9 Am
Sings upon the birch-bough high
Cadd9 Am
But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
Cadd9 Am
All a'chew 'pon your bones so dry
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Chorus]
A Cmaj7
But when the sun breaks
A C G
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
A Cmaj7
Then will you make a grave
A F
For I will be home then
Gsus4
I will be home then
F
I will be home then
Gsus4
I will be home then
Then
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Verse]
Cadd9 Am
When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
Cadd9 Am
Made a seam to hem me in
Cadd9 Am
There at the fair when our eyes caught, careless
Cadd9 Am
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Verse]
Cadd9 Am
But oh, did you see all the dead of Manassas
Cadd9 Am
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
Cadd9 Am
No, I lingered here with the blankets barren
Cadd9 Am
And my own belly big with child
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Chorus]
A Cmaj7
But when the sun breaks
A C G
To no more bullets in Battle Creek
A Cmaj7
Then will you make a grave
A F
For I will be home then
Gsus4
I will be home then
F
I will be home then
Gsus4
I will be home then
[Bridge]
F G
And stems and bones and stone walls too
G
Could keep me from you
F E
This skein of skin is all too few
G
To keep me from you
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
[Verse]
Cadd9 Am
But oh my love, though our bodies may be parted
Cadd9 Am
Though our skin may not touch skin
Cadd9 Am
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
Cadd9 Am
I will come on the breath of the wind
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am
Cadd9 Am Cadd9 Am