AmAm
God said don't give me your tin horn prayers
AmAm
And don't buy roses from the street down there
DmDm
Took it all and took the dirt road home
AmAm
Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair
E7Am
Night is falling like a bloody axe
E7Am
Lies and rumours and the wind at my back
E7Am
Hand on the wheel, Gravel on the road
E7E7
Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond
AmAm
Birds cry a warning from a hidden branch
AmAm
Carving out a future with a gun and an axe
DmDm
I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man
AmAm
Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand
E7Am
The world's not easy the blind man said
E7Am
Turns on nothing but money and dread
E7Am
Dogs been scratching at the door all night
E7E7
Long necked birds flying out of the moonlight
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7AmAmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
AmAm
Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie
AmAm
The star spangled glitter of his one good eye
DmDm
Everybody knows that the game was rigged
AmAm
Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig
E7Am
Dark town alleys been hiding you
E7Am
Long bell tolling is your Waterloo
E7Am
Oh baby what can you do
E7E7
Does the light of God blind you, Or lead the way home for you
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7AmAmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
INST: AS VERSE
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7AmAmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
AmAm
God almighty for righteousness sake
AmAm
Humilation of our fallen state
DmDm
Written in the Book of Tubal Cain
AmAm
A long black coat will show no stain
E7Am
Feel the heat and the burn on your back
E7Am
The rip and the moan, The stretch of the rack
E7Am
All my belongings in a flour sack
E7E7
Will the place I come from take me back
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7AmAmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
AmAm
They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big
AmAm
To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig
DmDm
Treats you like a puppet when you're under it's spell
AmAm
Oh the heart is Heaven, But the mind is Hell
E7Am
Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds
E7Am
I's born at this time for a reason you see
E7Am
When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time
E7E7
But the wines so pleasing and so sublime
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7AmAmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond
AmAm
Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree
AmAm
Everything I done is between God and me
DmDm
Only he will judge how my time was spent
AmAm
Twentynine days of sinning and forty to repent
E7Am
The horse is steady but the horse is blind
E7Am
Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind
E7Am
The roots grow upward and the branches grow down
E7E7
It's much too late to throw the dice again I've found
AmAmE7
I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother
AmE7Am
I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond
AmAm
I'm gonna wash them, I'm gonna wash them
AmAm
I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father
AmE7
I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother
AmAm
I'm gonna wash the sins of my brother
AmAmAmAm
Till the water runs clear, Till the water runs clear
AmAmAmAm
Till the water runs clear, Till the water runs clear
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