Chords for Old Crow Medicine Show - Take 'em Away (Live at Farm Aid 30)

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_ _ _ _ _ _ Take my way, [G] take my way [D] Lord, [Bm] take away [A] these chains from me.
[D] My heart is broken, [G] just my spirit's not [D] free.
Lord, take away these chains from me. _
_ _ _ _ _ Some birds feathers [G] are too bright to be caged.
[D] I know I'm not that colorful, [A] but a bird's the same.
[D] _ Open up your gate [G] now, let me put down my load, [D] so I can [Bm] feel at ease [A] and go back [D] to my home.
_ Take my _
[G] way, take my way [D] Lord, take away [A] these chains from me.
[D] _ My heart is broken, [G] just my spirit's not [D] free.
[Bm] Lord, take away these chains [D] from me. _ _ _
[A] _ _ [D] _ Sunken down, my [G] legs can't seem to stand.
[D] There is a false man at a turn [A] row with a rifle in his hand.
[D] _ I got nine [G] children, nothing in the pan.
[D] My wife, she died hungry [A] while I was [D] plowing land.
_ Take my way, [G] _
take my way [D] Lord, take away [A] these chains from me.
_ My heart is [G] broken, just my spirit's not [D] free.
Lord, take away these chains from me.
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Can't see when I go to [G] work, can't see when I get off.
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[Bm] How do you expect a [A] man not to get lost?
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Empty air just [G] keep getting deeper and deeper.
If [D] there's a happy day, [A] Lord, I haven't [D] seen one yet. _
Take my way, [G] _ take my way [D] Lord, [Bm] take away [A] these chains from me.
[D] My heart is broken, [G] just my spirit's not [D] free.
[Bm] Lord, take away [A] these chains [D] from me. _
_ _ _ _ _ Land that I love [G] is the land that I'm working, but it's [D] hard to live it all [A] the time.
Your back is a hurt.
[D] _ I'm getting too old [G] now to push this here [D] plow.
Please let me lay down [A] so I can [D] look at the clouds.
Take my way, [G] _ take my way [D] Lord, take away [A] these chains from me.
[D] _ My heart is broken, just [G] my spirit's not [D] free.
Lord, take away these chains from me.
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_ Land that I know [G] is where two rivers collide.
The [D] brown soaks and the nava [A] soak the big blue sky.
[D] _ _ Floodplain, [G] freight trains, watermelon vines, the limit [D] place on God's green earth, this is where I change the night.
Take my way, [G] _ take my way Lord, [D] take away [A] these chains from me.
[D] _ My heart is [G] broken, just my spirit's not [D] free.
Lord, take away these chains from me.
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My heart is broken, just [G] my spirit's not [D] free.
Lord, [Bm] take away these [D] chains from me.
Farm Aid, thank you so [A] much.
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Thanks a lot ladies and gentlemen for having the best day up here.
_ _ Having so much fun getting to meet some of America's _ true heroes.
The men and women [F#] of America's farms. _ _ _
_ Met a fellow named Bill Burkett from [B] down in Hattiesburg, Mississippi.
He's got _ [C#m] 386 acres of soybean, cotton, and corn.
_ _ He's got a lot put up in vegetables.
He's got some in [N] longleaf pine.
We're thinking about the farmers of Mississippi.
_ _ And we're thinking about the farmers of the land of Lincoln right here in Chicago, Illinois. _