Chords for Chris Stapleton - Scarecrow In The Garden (Official Audio)

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Well, he came from [E] Northern Ireland, [C#m] searching for the free [E] man's ground.
[C#m] And he came to bet [E] his fortune [B] on a whiskey [C#m] ginger plow.
[B] He [C#m] .
built a [E] house of timber [C#m] and raised a [E] redhead son.
[C#m] Then they worked the [E] land together [B] and prayed the [C#m] rain would come.
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[A] There's a staircase [E] in the garden [B] that looks like [C#m].
Lucifer.
[A] And I've been [C#m] reading Revelation [B] with my bare feet [C#m] and dirt.
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[B] [E] [C#m] .
Well, the redhead son [E] got older [C#m] and took a brown [E]-eyed wife.
[C#m] And the fields were [E] green as dollars [B] because the dirt was black [F#] as [C#m] night.
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I came in [E] late September, [C#m] the youngest [E] one of three.
[C#m] And my sisters all [E] found Mary, [B] so the land was [C#m] left to me.
[A] There's a staircase [E] in the garden [B] that looks like [C#m] Lucifer.
And I've been reading Revelation [B] with my bare feet and [C#m] dirt.
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[B] I know every single fence post, [A] every road to go [C#m] .
around.
[B] I've been staring at the red oak where [A] I know they [C#m] lay me down.
The fields ain't [E] what they once were.
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The rains just [E] seem to flood.
And [C#m] I've been thinking [E] about that river, [B] wondering how it [C#m] turns to blood.
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I've been sitting here all morning.
I was sitting here [E] all night.
[C#m] There's a Bible [E] in my left [B] hand and a pistol in [C#m] my right.
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