Chords for Townes Van Zandt - The Hole

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