1832 Gibson Brothers - In The Ground Chords

_ _ _ _ _ _ In the ground, _ [F] not many [C] years ago, [F] a belly full [C] they'd grow.
In the ground, _ in the ground, _ [F] as long as they [C] were able,
[F] they'd playin' [G] for the table [C] in the ground.
_ _ _ _ In the ground, like [F] their parents [C] did before,
blood and sweat they poured.
In [G] the ground, [C] in the ground, that [F] they held to [C] as their own,
they worked [G] and made a home [C] in the ground.
_ [G] In the ground, like no other, [F]
they held from [C] nature's mother,
they fed this country, cities, and its [G] towns.
_ But in long, slow surrender, [F] the profits [C] gettin' slender,
their family farm now often [G] can be found _ _
beneath what some call progress in [C] the ground. _ _ _
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[C] _ _ In the ground, _ they lived a straight life,
but they've been runnin' out of time.
[G] In the ground, in the ground, _ [F] that dream will [C] be gone,
[F] and it feels so [G] damn [C] wrong in the ground. _
[G] In the ground, like no other, with help [C] from nature's mother,
they fed this country, cities, and its [G] towns.
_ But in long, slow surrender, [F] with profits gettin' [C] slender,
their family farm now often can be found
_ _ beneath what some call progress in the ground.
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_ _ In the ground, _ [F] we turn it over [C] once more,
and to casket we lower [G] in the ground.
In [C] the ground, _ [F] my [C] hero gone home,
[F] I cry, or [G] his [C] bones in the ground. _
[G] In the ground, like no other, with help [C] from nature's mother,
they fed this country, cities, and [G] its towns.
_ But in long, slow surrender, [F] with profits gettin' [C] slender,
their family farm now often can [G] be found
_ _ beneath what some call progress [C] in the ground.
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