Chords for John Fullbright - Tombstone

[A] This is a job of [E] mine for you, you [D] know what I mean?
Hey, man.
Hey, man.
That's a good [Am] kid.
Oh, [Gb] boy.
[Bbm] Yeah.
[B] _ _ Song [Bb] about a _ _ zone _ _ [F] _ [C] about two [Eb] people that have been close [Bb] to me.
_ [A] And [Ab] we've been the same [C] place.
_ [Ab] Yeah, we've been the [D] same place now.
[Am] _
_ _ _ [G] I'll just a little town.
[A] I'll have a lot of fun.
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ [A] _ _ _ [N] The thing about this song, the song's called Tombstone.
And it's the first serious song, I think,
that I [Gb] ever wrote.
_ And, uh, _ _ _ let's see, I'll [Eb] be 17.
[Bb] And, uh, _ the [B] thing about it [E] is that when I was, when I was [C] _ 12,
[E] even, I knew exactly where I [N] was going to be buried. _ _ _
Because you live in a small town.
[Bb] Right?
_ _ [B] And [Bb] you know where you're going to be buried.
And that's what, it's heavy.
You know?
_ _ [Em] _ _ Uh, [Gm] to go, _ [Dm] to not, [E] you know, to just be at the beginning of the race.
You know, _ [B] [Bb] where the horse is going to be ahead of [N] you.
_ You're going to have some form of pre-destination.
_ Absolutely.
_ [Bbm]
Is that a [E] tween?
Pre [A]-destination.
Is that a tween?
[C] Yeah.
_ [Am] _
_ Yeah.
That's not a thing. _ _
_ _ [A] _ [Abm] I don't [G] play this song very often.
[Am] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ But, _ [Bb] it still, it still means the same thing.
[D] _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
About, uh, _ _ Woody [D]
Guthrie [E] and _ _ _ my [A] grandpa, _ _ [Am] _ who both lived about the same time,
_ [D] in the [Dm] same place. _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ And they were both older opposites.
[Em] _ _ [E] _ There's _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ [G] a [Am] _ tombstone [A] on [Am] _ a hilltop. _ _ _
_ On the [Bm] north side [Em] _ _
[E] of [G] [Am] my town. _ _
_ [D] Without a [Dm] name. _ _
_ It says [C] Woody Guthrie _ with _ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ his family buried [Am] around. _ _ _
_ _ There's a tombstone [A] on _ _ _ [Am] that hilltop.
[G] _ [A] _
_ [D] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ [A] You know, he did a thing down the [Am] river. _ _ _
_ [B] _ [A] _ [Dm] _ _ _ The name of [C] my grandpa. _ _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ _ [A]
The man I [C] loved [Am] to death.
_ [B] _ _
[Am] _ _ My grandpa _ _ _
[A] didn't care.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ _ [E] _ _ He worked with a hammer and [Gm] a [Am] saw. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ He didn't owe nobody [C] nothing. _ _ _ _
_ _ [Em] _ [E] _ _ He stayed on the right [D] side [A] of the _ _ lawn.
[Am] _
Woody Guthrie.
_ _ [A] _ _
He [Am] lived music.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ [E] _ _ He sang songs for [A] the working man.
_ [Am] _
_ _ [D] _ _ But he stayed in a lot of [C] trouble. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ [E] Singing songs [G] [Am] about the land.
He sang [G] a lot [Am] about the land. _ _ _
_ [G] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ [E] _ _
[Am] The land. _ _ _ _
The [D] land.
_ [Dm] The _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ land.
_ _ _ [A] The land.
The land. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Woody Guthrie. _ _
_ _ Buried on the east. _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
Grandpa buried on [Am] the west. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ [Am] When you laid [D] me down right here.
[C] _ _ When _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
you laid me in [Am] _ rest. _ _
_ [G] There's [Am] a _ tombstone _ _ on a _ _ [A] hilltop.
_ [C] The [E] _ _ _ north side of the [G] _ [Am] mountain. _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] There's a way, [G] _ [Dm] there's a way, _ [G] [C] way for me. _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ When you lay my _ [Am] body down. _ _
_ [A] _ [G] _ [E] _ _ _ When you lay my [Am] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ [G] body [A] _ _ _ down.
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ [N] _ _