Heat Lightning Rumbles In The Distance Chords by Patterson Hood

_ This is the title cut on the record. _ _
I wrote this one just a few weeks before it actually occurred to me that I was making a record. _ _ _
_ It's one of those things, when I wrote it, I actually _ didn't think it was anything any good or anything that worked.
_ It was kind of a few weeks later, I kind of stumbled on it and was like, wow, that actually has some potential.
And then I finished it, and it's one of my favorite things on the record.
But _ this one, a lot of it's inspired by my great uncle, who was at that time about to turn 91.
_ _ I knew our time was running out, and he wasn't doing too good.
He's like kind of a second father to me, and was _ _ very much a father figure to everyone in my extended family.
I _ _ _ wrote this song kind of about watching my kids play out at the old homestead where he lived for his entire life. _
In the house that he was born in, and watching my kids play there.
_ _ _ Because they loved him like I did.
_ _ _ It's about [E] that, and it's called Heat Lightning Rumbles in the Distance.
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Heat lightning [D] rumbles in the distance, [G] _ _ sunsetting west of the trees. _
_ [E] _ _ _ [G] The old oak's gone, and the house is falling down.
The ghosts are a comfort to me. _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] Ghosts of the family and [D] the time that slipped by.
[G] The changing of the old garden year.
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Standing here in the [D] day's final light.
[G] Strong beside you, _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F] strong beside you, and [G] this land that I brought you to.
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Strong beside you, [G] with my arms holding you close.
[F] _ Strong beside you, with [G] these babies at our feet.
_ Warm summer wind blows, _ [E] _ _ _ [G] _ _
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_ _ [G] warm summer wind blows.
The chimney's fell down.
The grass ain't been cut, and the road into town. _
Cuts through the woods, and the [D] barn needs a [G] roof.
There's things more important than holding the proof.
_ _ _ _ _ [F] Holding the proof, [G] and it's keeping me strong.
Beneath this hollow, endless longing.
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_ _ _ This hollow, endless longing takes a [D] toll on us both.
I [G] guess that it's good that it's showing.
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_ [G] Looking for comfort in the knowing.
_ _ _ Looking for comfort in the knowing.
_ _ [F] And it takes the place to the [G] ones you left behind.
This [F] place you always held, this [G] heart of mine. _
_ _ [F] Holding on along to [G] the place you always held.
While hate aligning rumbles in the distance.
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Night creeps slowly by [G] as I hold myself together. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ Night creeps slowly by as I hold myself together. _
Between anguish and acceptance. _ _ _ _
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