Chords for Below

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_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ There's an old dirt road _ _ just off Route 9
_ It fades into [Ab] the lake _ [Bb] at the low [Cm] water line _ _ _
Sometimes I wander _ _ down that road alone _ _ _ _
[Ab] Remembering the town _ [Bb] that I once [Cm] called home
_ [G] I grew up [Cm] in the valley, _ _ _ every neighbor a friend
_ _ _ Until the modern [Ab] _ world _ [Bb] _ started creeping [Cm] _ in
_ _ One day came the lawyers _ with cash in hand
_ _ They swore [Ab] that our village _ [Bb] _ would light up [Cm] the land _ _ _
The [Ab] dusky _ waters _ moved [Cm] cold and slow
_ And the ghosts of the [Eb] _ village still [G] wander _ below _ _ _
[Ab] Homesteads of families _ and friends _
_ [Cm] _ _ forevermore _ _ _
[Bb] Haunting the valley [Ab] below this sparkling [C] _ shore _ _ _
Surrounding the [Cm] valley _ was a painted red line
_ _ Drawn by [Ab] company men _ _ [Bb] _ like marking [Cm] a crime
_ _ A silent reminder _ _ that all inside it must go
_ Or be lost to [Ab] the _ rising [Bb] _ _
dead [Cm] river's flow
_ _ Some folks took the money, _ _ started grinding gears
_ _ While the rest [Ab] of us held [Bb] out for twenty [C]-odd _ years
We watched our town _ [Cm] _ like a photograph _ fade
_ As the company [Ab] _ came _ [Bb] to take it [Cm] all away
_ _ They tore down the church _ and the schoolhouse burned
_ _ They dug [Ab] up the _ graves, [Bb] the wheels of [Cm] progress turned
_ They got Dutchie's store _ and Haven's pool _ _ hall
And the [Ab] dozers rolled, _ [Bb] _ it shattered [Cm] us all
_ _ The [Ab] dusky _ waters _ moved [Cm] cold and slow
_ And the ghosts [Eb] of the _ village still [G] wander below _ _ _ _
[Ab] Homesteads of families _ and friends _ [Cm] _ _ forevermore _ _ _
[Bb] Haunting the valley [Ab] below this sparkling [C] _ shore
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Old May Savage _ _ stayed as long as she could
_ _ _ Her house [Ab] on the hill _ _ [Bb] _ _
towered over [Cm] the flood
_ _ _ It rose up _ alone _ in the dark of night
_ _ _ Its face on [Ab] the water _ [Bb] in the cold [Cm] moonlight
_ _ _ I shake off [C] the memories _ _ on my lips [Cm] of prayer
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Thanks for [Ab] the grace _ [Bb] and the beauty [Cm] down there
_ And while the porch [C] lights glow _ _ all over the [Cm] state
_ _ There's nothing [Ab] but _ _ [Bb] darkness _ under [Cm] the _ lake
_ The [Ab] dusky waters _ _ moved [Cm] cold and slow
_ And the ghosts [Eb] of the _ _ village still wander [G] _ _ below _ _
Homesteads [Ab] of families and friends _
_ [Cm] _ forevermore _ _ _ _
[Bb] Haunting the _ valley [Ab] below this sparkling [Cm] _ shore _ _ _
They [Bb] haunt the _ valley [Ab] below this sparkling [Cm] shore _ _ _ _ _
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