Chords for Murder In The Red Barn - Tom Waits Cover

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_ _ _ _ _ _ The trees [C] are bending over and the cows are lying down.
_ [Gm] Autumn's taking [Cm] over, you can hear the buckshot hounds.
_ Watchman said, tree blew, wasn't it pale and dancing?
To me, that was a blind buckle.
_ [Fm] Pinned it on the drifter, they sleep beneath the bridge.
[Cm] One plays the violin and sleeps [Gm] inside a fridge.
[G] Murder [Fm] in the red barn, a murder [Cm] in the red barn.
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_ _ Someone's crying in the woods, someone's buried all his coves.
Slammed the crank for weeks, slept outside last night and froze.
_ Roadkill has its seasons just like anything.
There's possums in the yard and then there's farm cats in the [Bb] spring.
[Fm] Murder in the red barn, a murder [Eb] in the red [Cm] barn.
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_ Thou shalt not cover thy neighbor's house or cover thy neighbor's wife.
The summers are young, but the weeds stay alive.
Now they surround the house, they smoked him out, took him off and changed.
Skies are black and bruised, he had months of heavy rains.
Now the ravens nest in the rotten roof of Chenoweth's old place.
And no one's asking care about that scar upon his face.
[Fm] There's nothing strange about an axe with bloodstains in the [Cm] barn.
There's always some killing you got to do [Ab] around the farm.
[Fm] Murder in the red barn, a murder [Bb] in the [Cm] red barn.
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[Gm] _ [C] _ Woods will never tell what sleeps beneath the trees.
_ What's buried beneath the [Gm] rock [Cm] or hiding in the leaves.
_ Roadkill has its seasons just like anything.
[G] _
[C] There's possums in the yard and then there's farm [Gm] cats in the spring.
[Fm] Murder in the red barn, a murder [Bb] in the [Cm] red barn.
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[Gm] [Cm] Now a lady can't do nothing without a folk's tongue's wagging.
He's had blood on the tree of his garden's red place.
When the ground stops for digging and the rain will bring all its shroom.
There's nothing wrong with a lady drinking alone in her room.
[C] There [Fm] was a murder in the red barn, a murder [Eb] in the [Bb] red [Cm] barn. _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] There was a murder in the red barn, a [Bb] murder in the red [Cm] barn. _ _ _ _
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