Yankee Bayonet

[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