The Truth Comes Out Chords by Corb Lund

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_ _ _ [Dm] truth comes out as [D] the fire burns low, [C] it comes to light as only embers [Bb] glow, the
whiskey talks, the west wind moans [Dm] in the night. _
_ _ _ _ The dead falls gathered and the branches are [C] cut, the kindling crackles and the smoke curls
[Bb] up, the small sticks catch and the bigger stuff [Dm] will burn. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] She nooked eyes down as the dark [C] descends and the pine is burned and the ash is [Bb] cleansed,
the message smolders, it's lost, it's [Dm] finally sent. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] Well, Connie says she's never seen a cougar so [C] bold, they're coming in the yard and they're
stealing young colts [Bb] and they drag them in the brush with the claws sunk in [Dm] their nose. _
_ [C] _ _ _ [Dm] The weather's been funny thirty years or so, [C] the winter's got warm and not as much snow,
[Bb] hear the big cats coming but there's nowhere left [Dm] to go. _
_ [C] _ _ You [Dm] gotta look out for bear when you're fishing on Lee's [C] Creek, they'll come around the bend
and they'll make your knees [Bb] weak as grizzly as where there was no grizzly bears [Dm] before. _
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_ _ _ _ Well, half heard voices from the ghosts from the grave, [C] the grandfathers tell us that the
mouths of the caves, [Bb] only old heaves older than Jesus can [Dm] save us now, _ [C] we're lucky.
_ _ _ [Dm] White men light a big fire, stay [C] cold, the red man's warmer but the old man's [Bb] old.
The antelope seeks the buffalo in [Dm] the night, _ [Bb] well the _ antelope mourns the buffalo in [F] the night.
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_ [Dm] Look out for bear when you're fishing on Lee's [C] Creek, they'll come around the bend and they'll
make your knees [Bb] weak as grizzly as where there was no grizzly bears [Dm] before.
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The [Dm] truth comes out as the fire burns low, [C] it comes to light as only embers glow,
[Bb] the _ antelope mourns the buffalo [Dm] in the night. _
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