The Bottomless Hole Chords by The Handsome Family

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_ [E] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ My name [B] I don't [C] _ remember, though [E] I hail from [A] Ohio.
_ _ I had a wife [C] and children, _ [F]
good tires on [C] my _ car.
_ _ [B] _ [F] What took me from my home and put [Em] me in [C] the _ earth
[A] _ _ [E] _
[F] was the mouth of the deep dark hole [E] I found behind [A] my _ barn. _
_ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ You'd been filling [B] it [C] with garbage [E] as long as you [A] could count.
_ Kitchen [C] scraps and dead cows, _ [F] _
tractors broken [C] _ down.
_ _ [G] But _ [F]
never did I hear _ one thing hit [C] the [B] ground.
_ [A] _ _ [E] _
[F] And slowly I came to fear [E] _ that this was a bottomless hole.
_ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ I [A] went out [B] behind [C] the barn [G] _
[E] and stared down in [A] that hole.
_ Laying into [C] the evening, [F] my mind would not [C] let go.
_ _ _ [C] So [F] I got out my ropes and a rusty [Em] claw [C] foot _ [G] tub.
[A] _ _ [E]
And [F] I rigged myself a chariot [E] to ride back [A] that hole. _ _
My _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[B] wife, she [C] did help me.
[E] She fed me down [A] the ropes.
And then I sank [C] away _ [F] from the surface of [C] this world.
_ _ _ [Bm] With [F] the last rope pulled tight, I had [Em] not reached [C] the end.
[G] _ _ [A] _ [E] And in [F] _ anger I swung there [E] down in that dark [A] _ abyss. _ _
_ So I got [G]
out [C] my [G] knife, [E] I told my wife [A] goodbye. _
_ _ _ _ I cut loose from [C] the ropes [F] and fell on down [C] that hole.
_ _ [C] And _ [F] still I am there _ falling down in this evil [C] _ [G] pit.
_ [A] _
_ [E] But [F] until I hit the bottom, I won't [E]
believe it's _ [A] bottomless. _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ [F] _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [A] _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _