Intro 

| Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G| Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G 


[Verso 1]


        Am          Am                Am                  Am 
There’s blood on my hands but it’s my own if you can understand, 
               E     E                  Am          Am 
I’m building a home,   forming mud into stones. 
    Am                  Am                  Am                      Am 
The sweat drips from my brow, I got me some land but I can’t have a cows 
 E     E                               Am           Am 
around   'cause nothing grows from the ground. 


[Refrão]
 
    F                    C                  C    E7   Am       Am 
The lighting strikes the ground but you can barely hear a sound. 
    F               C                    C        E7      Am       Am 
The rain it finally comes, well, you can smell what keeps me around 
        E 
in this unforgiving land, with no water in the Interlude ground. 

Interlude 

| Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G| Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G |


[Verso 2]


    Am               Am                      Am 
The snake eats at my flesh, the sun burns my skin, 
                  Am      E     E                     Am          Am 
the wind dries me out, at night   it gets colder than ice. 
Am                  Am                    Am 
I must bid thee farewell, the land that I love, 
                Am        E   E                      Am          Am 
you’ve taken so much from me,   I fear I’ll never be free. 


[Refrão]
 
    F                   C                 C     E7    Am       Am 
The lighting strikes the ground and you can barely hear a sound. 
        F              C                   C         E7       Am 
And the rain it finally comes, well, you can smell what keeps me around 
Am        E 
  in this god forsaken land, with no water in the Interlude ground/ 

Interlude 

| Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G | Am      Am/E  | Am   Am/E Am/G |

Outro

    Dm          Am       E       Am 
And death surely follows a man like me, 
    Dm         Am         E 
the desert will swallow me whole. 
      Dm         Am            E              Am 
And I ride like a cowboy with no worries to bind me 
        Dm         Am         E 
to that old life of mine in the east. 
                 Am 
Oh, Lord take me west.