Chords for Gov't Mule - Lay Of The Sunflower.wmv

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I must leave [Eb] you for a season, _ _ _ [Bbm] _
go [Eb] out logging _ [Bbm] [Fm] hardwood timber.
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Hardwood timber [Bb] grows so low [Db] in [Eb] the forest of [Fm] Fanario.
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Tell me what [Eb] you'll need to live up.
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[Eb] Do you ask that you [Fm] might own?
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Keep my blue-eyed [Bb] _
town to guard [Db] you.
I [Eb] will make my [Fm] way along.
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_ I will not [Eb] _
_ return in winter.
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_ [Eb] If I be not [Fm] back by fall,
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_ Seek me with [Bb] the small sunflower,
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_ [Eb] Close above [Fm] the garden wall.
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_ [Db] Say, well, [Ab] I would not _ _ [Db] weep,
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_ [Eb] If you'd lend your [Fm]
prayers to keep.
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_ [Db] You're by tail now, [Ab] my sky-cloth,
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To the [Db] forest [Eb] of [Fm] Fanario.
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Nine-month-old [Eb] was sweet as rain,
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But [Eb] still he came not back [Fm] again. _ _ _ _
[Ab] _ Someone she [Bb] had a hound to go, _
[Db] _ [Eb] To seek him in [Fm] Fanario.
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He came back [Eb]
that faded day,
[Bbm] To _ [Eb] find his lady [Fm] gone away. _ _ _ _
[Ab] He hast to follow _
[Bb] _ in her [Db] tracks,
_ [Eb] Where she could go but not [Fm] turn _ back. _ _
[Ab] _ Blue-eyed hound at [Eb] her side did play, _
[Bbm] _ [Eb] While fast her breath did [Fm] fade away. _ _ _ _
[Ab] She cried out, [Bb] turn my love and go,
[Db] _ Would [Eb] not have you see [Fm] me so. _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Db] Say, well, I would [Ab] not _ weep, _
_ If [Eb] you'd lend [Fm] your prayers to keep.
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_ [Db] You're by tail now, my [Ab] sky-cloth,
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To the [Db] forest [Eb] of [Fm]
Fanario.
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shall not turn, [Eb] I shall not yield,
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Self [Eb]-same self will [Fm] sting my heel,
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Bleeds my _ [Bb] lady's blood _ away.
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[Eb] Beside the blue-eyed [Fm] hound lay _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
angels sing,
[Eb] Their songs to _ sing.
[Bbm] Four [Eb] winds abreast and [Fm] breath to keep,
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Up above [Bb] yon _ garden wall,
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[Eb] Stands a sunflower [Fm] straight and tall.
_ _ _ [Eb] _ [Db] Say, well, [Ab] I would not _ _ weep,
_ _ [Eb] If you'd lend your [Fm] prayers to _ _ [Eb] _ keep.
You're [Db] by tail now, my [Ab] sky-cloth, _
_ [Eb] _ To the [Db] forest [Eb] of [Fm] Fanario. _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Db] Say, well, [Ab] I would not _ weep, _
_ _ [Eb] If you'd lend your [Fm] prayers to keep.
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_ [Db] You're by tail [Ab] now, my sky-cloth,
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To the [Db] forest [Eb] of [Fm]
Fanario.
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You're [Db] by tail now, my [Ab] sky-cloth,
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To the [Db] forest [Eb] of [Fm] Fanario. _
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