The Wound That Never Heals Chords by Jim White

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Long about an hour before sunrise, _ she drags his body down to the edge of the swollen river,
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[D] wrapped in a [Bm] red velvet curtain, [D] _ _ [B] stolen [D] from the movie theater [B] where she works.
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[D] Quiet as a whisper, under [C#] the stanchions of a washed out [A] bridge, she [Bm] cuts him loose, [A] _ [Bm] and
watches [D] as the floodwater spin him round [A] once, and carry him away.
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[G] She removes the [F#m] golden ring upon her finger. _
_ [F#] She throws it [A] in.
[B] And _
[A] _ _ [Bm] I wonder baby why don't you cry, baby why don't you, baby why don't [A] you [Bm] cry.
I wonder baby why don't you cry, baby why don't you, baby why don't [A] you cry.
[Bm] _ [A] I'm on a [B] roll, yeah yeah.
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[D] [E] Three days later, in a [Bm] bar in southern Mississippi, _ she meets a [F#m] man by the name of Charles [A] Lee.
_ [Bm] _ _
She introduces herself to him as Lee Charles.
What a coincidence, he says.
[A] A week later, they [B] get married. _
[D] He wakes up one night, [A] six months down the line to find her, [Bm] staring at him in the oddest [A] way.
_ [B] When he [D] says, honey, what's wrong?
She [A] says, oh nothing dear, except the tears are a stupid [B] trick of God.
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[G] By the time they find his body, [F#] six weeks [D] later, [F#] well, [E] she's a thousand [A] miles away.
[Bm] And _
[A] _ _ [Bm] I [D] wonder baby why [Bm] don't you cry, baby why don't you, baby why don't [A] you cry.
[Bm] _ I wonder [B] baby why don't you cry, baby why [Bm] don't you, baby why don't [A] you [Bm] cry.
_ [A] I'm _ [B] on a roll, yeah yeah. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[Bm] Baby why, _ _ _ _ _
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baby why don't [G] you cry, baby why don't you cry.
[F#m] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ She runs from devils, she runs from angels.
She runs from a ghost of a father and five [Bm] different uncles.
_ Blinded by their memories, [B] _
seared by their pain.
She'd like to kill them all, yeah, kill them all again.
[D] She don't think much about what she's [C#] done or the funny feelings that she [A] feels.
[Bm] No she [A] don't.
[B] To her, it's [D] just a condition she picked up as a [C#] child.
A little thing she [A] calls, the wound that [B] never heals.
[A] She [B] calls it, [A] the wound that never [Bm] heals.
[A] _ _ [Bm] And I [D] wonder baby why [Bm] don't you cry, baby why don't you, baby why don't [A] you cry.
[Bm] _ I wonder baby why don't you cry, baby why don't you, baby why don't [A] you _ [Bm] cry.
Cry baby, _ _ _ _ cry baby, _ _ _ _ cry _ baby.
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