Chords for Butch Hancock "Dangling Diamond" Live at KDHX 4/9/14

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_ _ _ Well, I thought I had a [F#m] fix on religion, [Em] until I found this trail of truth,
_ [A] Hanging like a dangling diamond down [D] deep in my heart.
_ _ I could hear Mama holler [F#m] from the kitchen,
Get up [Em] and wash your face and go to school.
_ [A] You might make something of yourself someday,
If you ever find a [D] place to start.
[F#m] But I was born on the side of the mountain,
That has no [Em] bottom and it has no top.
[A] I have no way to think about starting,
And I have nowhere [D] to stop.
I was born in the middle [F#m] of a rolling river,
[B] And I came [Em] from the clouds beyond.
[A] I'm headed for the ocean,
And I know I'm never gonna be anywhere [D] but yon.
_ [F#m] _ [F#] Time _ _ _
[A] _ flies _ by _ [Bm] _
_ _ [F#m] beyond _ the blue.
[D] _ _ _ [F#m] Where _ _
_ _ [A] am I? _ _
_ [F#m] _ Where _ _ _ are [D] you? _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Well, I came home [F#m] bloody from a schoolyard [Em] fight,
And I didn't even know who it was.
[A] It's true, I had not a clue what the [D] fight was for.
_ _ What I remember [F#m] was it wasn't my first [Em] fight,
And it was her fourth or fifth.
[A] In the jaws of the laws of cause and effect,
You gotta give it all you got, [D] and then some more.
[Bm] I was born in the middle [F#m] of an endless battle,
[Bm] Every day these fights erupt.
_ [A] Why, oh why, when the enemy's gone,
Must you go and make another [D] one up?
[Bm] I was born in the middle [F#m] of a no-man's [Em] land,
Drunk in blood and breathing [A] air.
Dreaming my name was flying high,
Thinking I was going [D] somewhere.
[F#m] _ _ _ Earth and [A]
death, [Bm] old [F#m] _ age and youth, _
What _ [A] is time, [F#m] what _ [D] is truth? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ From our very own [F#m] hearts we keep our [Em] distance,
And we send somebody to fight.
[A] We pay some others to pass some laws,
Like they can tell wrong [D] from right.
When you shore one [F#m] up and undermine another,
[Em] It'll all come tumbling down.
[A] It'll even do the same when you leave it alone,
The mind is at the heart [D] of the [Bm] battleground.
I was born in the heart [F#m] of a wilderness,
[Em] Full of travelers looking for life.
[A] _ Some never listen, and some stop looking,
When the first star [D]
shines at night.
[Bm] I was born in the center [F#m] of a circle of friends,
[Bm] Too [Em] big to be too small.
_ [A]
Surrounded by a low horizon,
Nothing more, nothing less than a [D] prison wall.
_ [F#m] _ Time _
_ _ [A] flies by, _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [F#m] Beyond _ [D]
the blue.
_ _ _ [F#m] _ Who _ _ _ [A] _ am I?
_ _ [F#m] _ Who _ _ _ [D] are you?
[G] _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ I just thought I had a fix [F#m] on religion,
[Em] Until I found this trail of truth,
[A] Hanging like a dangling diamond down deep [D] in my heart.
[Bm] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [D] _ _ _ [B] _
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