Chords for Laura Veirs - Devil's Hootenanny

_ _ _ I was walking through [Dm] the snow when I saw a distant glow
[C] A farmhouse [Bb] nest down beneath the trees
[Dm] _ With a [F] guitar on my [Dm] back, thought it [F] sure can't hurt to ask
[C] If I could stay the night, [Bb] sing a pretty song for free
[F] _ [Dm] _ [C] I walked up to the house and then [Bb] I knocked hard on the [C] door
That old dark piece of wood, she fell [Bb] right in there [F] on the floor
And as she did, [Dm] fire burst out [Am] on all sides
[C] _ I wondered what the hell was going on [F] inside
Then the music that [Dm] I heard, it was bizarre, it was absurd
Like [C] no banjo fiddle bass I'd [Dm] ever seen
I _ stepped into a room of flames, shook my head and looked again
[C] What was the kind of [Bb] company to [Dm] make you scream?
It _ [C] was the Devil's Hootenanny, [Bb] an old time [F] fight band
[C]
Drunk in a whiskey choir, [Bb] singing round me, you [F] understand
And they said, [Dm] we've been searching [Am] near and far
[C] _ For a thing like you to sing [F] and play guitar
_ Well I opened up my [Dm] case and all the blood rushed to my face
[C] And I sang with fragile, no [Dm] picket lines
_ _ While those devils yelled and clapped and all their asses they disflapped
[C] For too long we were [Bb] on an arm [Dm] beneath the moon
_ [C] Cause that old house burned down, there were cinders [F] on the ground
[C]
Snuggled up inside, [Gm] closed my eyes, I was [F] sleeping sound
And I dreamt [Dm] summer nights down [Am] by the sea
[C] _ With Devil's banjo playing [F] on my ear
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_ [F] _ And I dreamt [Dm] _ _ [Am] _
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_ [Am] _ [C] summer nights _ [F] _ _
down [Dm] by the sea
[Am] With _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ Devil's [Am] banjo _ [C] _
[F] playing _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Am] _
_ [C] _ _ [F] _ _ _ [Dm] on [Am] my _ [C] _ [F] _ _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ _ [Am] ear
[Cm] _ _ [F] _