Chords for Townes Van Zandt - 04 The Hole (Solo Sessions)

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[B] _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ The old lady finally caught me, [A] _ [Bm] _ sneaking through her cave.
_ _ _ Her [B] hair looked just like barbed wire, boys, and her smile [A] just like the grave.
[F#m] _ _ _
_ _ She asked me could I stay a while. _
_ [Bm] _ I said, I believe I better go. _
She slid her arm around my neck, and she [F#m] sweetly whispered, no.
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It's cold and dark and lonely [Bm] here, as soon enough you'll see. _
_ _ I'm oh so glad you stumbled in.
I've been craving [F#m] company. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ You cannot stay too long, you know.
I left some [B] friends at home.
_ [Bm] _ _ She said, don't you fret about your friends.
_ [B] _ Down here, we're all [F#m] alone. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ I cannot leave my mother.
I cannot leave [Bm] her there to mourn. _ _ _
Or you don't have to think about her.
_ [F#] Just [F#m] forget you were ever born.
_ _ _ _ But I'll disappoint my father.
_ No, [B] he worked so hard for me.
[Bm] _ _ _ If you have to pay your father back, just send him some misery.
[F#m] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
_ [F#m] _ _ _ _ _ I'll miss, I said, a girl I know.
I can't [Bm] just leave her there to pine.
_ _ While she's got plenty of men to go, [B]
I'm sure she'll do [A] just [F#m] fine. _ _ _ _
_ _ What about my little boy? _
[Bm] She said he's just like you. _ _ _ _
Let a few short years roll by, and he'll end up down here, [F#m] too. _
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Her pale green eyes began to glow, and she [Bm] placed her hand on mine.
_ _ _ She smiled and said, don't worry.
You'll get [F#] used to me in time.
[F#m] _
There's a cold tongue flickered toward my throat.
_ [Bm]
I spun myself around.
_ _ I made a dive for the passageway, but the walls [F#m] come tumbling down. _
_ _ _ _ _ And our eyes were the only light [Bm] my fevered brain could see. _ _
I tore myself away from them, and I fell down to my [F#m] knees.
_ _ I've come too far.
I can't get back.
[Bm] I've assist all the gods of men. _
_ _ Well, fame and fortune just laughed at me, and in [F#m] silence once again. _ _ _ _
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Then I whispered deep within, _ _ [Bm] _
embrace the God of love.
I lifted my face, and through the tears, I saw light fall from above.
[F#m] _ _ _
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I hurled myself into the wall.
[Bm] I ripped and clawed my way through the stinking,
clinging loam [C#] back to the light of day.
[F#m] _ _
I crawled out into the wind again [Bm] with the sky upon my face.
_ _ I heard the earth sigh patiently [F#] as it slid back [F#m] into place. _ _ _
_ _ _ Now I'm back among the ones I love.
[Bm] _ I'm loved by them in turn, _ _ and
it's only on the darkest night [B] that green-eyed [F#m] memory burns. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ So walk, my friends, in the light of day.
[Bm] _ Don't go sneaking around no holes.
_ _ _ There might be something down there _ wants [F#m] to gobble up your soul. _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ This song is called