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

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140.45 bpm
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G

A

Bm

B

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Old Crow Medicine Show -  Take 'em Away (Live at Farm Aid 30) chords
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[B]
[D] [G]
[D] [B] [A] [D]
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.
[G]
[D] [A]
[D] [G]
[D] [A] [D]
Can't see when I go to [G] work, can't see when I get off.
[D]
[Bm] How do you expect a [A] man not to get lost?
[D]
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.
[G]
[D] [A]
[D] [G]
[D]
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.
[G] [D]
[A] [D]
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.
[N]
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.
Key:  
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1321
G
2131
A
1231
Bm
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B
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D
1321
G
2131
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1231
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_ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ 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.
_ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Can't see when I go to [G] work, can't see when I get off.
[D] _
[Bm] How do you expect a [A] man not to get lost?
[D] _
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.
_ _ [G] _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ 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.
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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.
_ _ _ _ [N] _
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. _

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