Murder In The Red Barn Chords by Tom Waits

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_ _ _ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in the red barn.
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The trees are bending over and the cows are lying down.
The autumn's taking over, you can hear the buckshot [G] howl.
The watchman said, [Eb] to me, [Cm] but to me, was that pale [Eb] and man's a needle.
[Cm] The blind pop the [A] coon, tinted altar [Cm] drifted, they sleep beneath the bridge.
_ One plays the violin and sleeps [Eb]
inside a prison.
Cause the murder [G] in the red barn, a murder [Eb] in the _ [Cm] _ _ _ red [G] barn.
[C] _ _ [F] Someone's [C] crying in the woods, [Cm] someone's buried on his clothes.
Now slam the crank, the bees are stepped outside.
_ _ _ [Eb] Roadkill [C] has to cease, just like anything.
[N] There's fossils in the autumn and there's farm cats in the spring.
There was a murder in the red barn, a murder in [Cm] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ [G] _ the red barn.
[Eb] Now thou shalt not [Am] cover thy [Cm] neighbor's house or keep thy neighbor's wife.
Some murders the only [G] door through which they get to life.
[Cm] _ _
_ _ [Eb] _ _ _ [C] Now they're surrounding the [N] house, they smoked him out, took off his chains.
The sky turned black and [G] bruised, and it was months of heavy rains.
[A]
How the rain rolls nest in the rotting, [Cm] degenerate face.
[Bm] No one's asking [G] how about that scar on his [Am] face.
[G] Cause there's nothing strange [A] about [C] an axe with blood stains in the barn.
There's always some killing you got to do [Em] around the barn.
A murder [N] in the red barn, a murder in the red [A] barn.
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[C] _ _ Women will never tell what sleeps beneath the trees.
What's buried beneath the rock, [Cm] hiding in the leaves.
_ [G] Roadkill has it's seasons just like anything.
_ _ _ Fossils in the [C] autumn and there's [G] farm cats in the spring.
[Cm] [N] A murder in the red barn, a murder in the [C] red barn.
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[C] _ _ Now a lady can't do nothing without _ smoke's tongues wagging.
Is that [Eb] blood on the tree or is it autumn's red glaze?
[F] Who's got grass to stock for digging in the [C] rain?
Who'll pick all this gloom?
There's nothing [A] wrong with [G] a [Eb] lady drinking [C] alone in the room.
Cause a [Bbm] murder in the [A] red barn, a murder in the red [C] barn. _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ A murder [Gm] in the red barn, a murder in the red barn. _ _
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ A murder in the red _ barn, a murder in the red barn.
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