e: Sun, 24 May 1998 21:02:19 -0400
From: Mark and Allison Albert
Subject: w/welch_gillian/revival_album.crd
ORPHAN GIRL (Gillian Welch)
Track 1 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 1
VERSE 1:
G D
I am an orphan, on God’s highway
G C
But I’ll share my troubles, if you go my way
G D G C
I have no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
G D G
I am an orphan girl
VERSE 2:
I have had friendships, pure and golden
But the ties of kinship, I have not know them
I know no mother, no father, no sister, no brother
I am an orphan girl
VERSE 3:
But when he calls me, I will be able
To meet my family, at God’s table
I’ll meet my mother, my father, my sister, my brother
No more an orphan girl
VERSE 4:
Blessed savior, make me willing
And walk beside me, until I’m with them
Be my mother, my father, my sister, my brother
I am an orphan girl
ANNABELLE (Gillian Welch)
Track 2 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
Em C
We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule
B7 Em
From the Alabama trust
Em C
For half of the cotton and a third of the corn
B7 Em
We get a handful of dust
CHORUS:
C G D Em
We cannot have all things to please us, no matter how we try
C G D Em C D Em
Until we’ve all gone to Jesus, we can only wonder why
VERSE 2:
I had a daughter called her Annabelle
She’s the apple of my eye
Tried to give her something like I never had
Didn’t want to ever hear her cry
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
When I’m dead and buried I’ll take a hard life of tears
From every day I’ve ever known
Anna’s in the churchyard she got no life at all
She only got these words on a stone
(CHORUS)
PASS YOU BY (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 3 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
VERSE 1:
D
I’ve got an old V — 8, from the year I was born
G F Em7
Don’t look like much, just a flat black Ford
D
But the engine’s clean, I could paint her some day
G F Em7
But most of the time, I think I like her this way
CHORUS:
G
Don’t turn no heads, don’t catch no eye
D Bb F Em7 D
I’m just a wind on the road, gonna pass you by
VERSE 2:
Well I used to talk tough, and I used to get loud
Want to paint my name, all over this town
But folks lined up, just to dog my day
Now if I stay quiet, they stay out of my way
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
I got a brand new plan, gonna help myself
‘Cause it’s the fat man’s turn, gonna share the wealth
Put the money in the bag, and keep your hands in sight
Turn around, count to ten, I’ll go back into the night
(CHORUS)
CODA:
Don’t call for help, don’t scream, don’t cry
Just a wind on the road, gonna pass you by.
BARROOM GIRLS (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 4 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD — 80006)
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
G
Oh the night came undone like a party dress
D
And fell at her feet in a beautiful mess
G C
The smoke and the whiskey came home in her curls
G D G D
And they crept through the dreams of the barroom girls
VERSE 2:
Well she tosses and turns because the sun is unkind
And the heat of the day is coming in thru the blinds
But leave all the blue skies for the rest of the world
Because the neon will shine for the barroom girls
BRIDGE:
D G
Oh the barroom girls go by your side
A D
Like the ponies who pass on a carousel ride
G C
And all of the colors go ’round in a swirl
G D G D
When you dance in the arms of the barroom girls
VERSE 3:
Now she rolls to her feet when she can’t sleep no more
And looks at her clothes lying out on the floor
Last night’s spangles and yesterday’s pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
Last night’s spangles and yesterday’s pearls
Are the bright morning stars of the barroom girls
ONE MORE DOLLAR (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 5 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
C G C
A long time ago I left my home
F C
For a job in the fruit trees
C G C
But I missed those hills with the windy pines
F C
For their song seemed to suit me
VERSE 2:
C G C
So I sent my wages to my home
F C
And said we’d soon be together
C G C
For the next good crop would pay my way
F C
And I would come home forever
CHORUS:
Am G F G C
One more dime to show for my day
Am G F G C
One more dollar and I’m on my way
Am G F G C
When I reach those hills, boys, I’ll never roam
Am G F G C
One more dollar and I’m going home
VERSE 3:
No work said the boss at the bunk house door,
There’s a freeze on the branches,
So when the dice came out at the bar downtown,
I rolled and I took my chances
(CHORUS)
VERSE 4:
A long time ago I left my home
Just a boy passing twenty
Could you spare a coin and a Christian prayer
For my luck has turned against me
(CHORUS)
One more dollar, boys I’m going home
BY THE MARK (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 6 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 5
VERSE 1:
G D
When I cross over, I will shout and sing
G D C G
I will know my savior, by the mark where the nails have been
CHORUS:
G
By the mark where the nails have been
D G
By the sign upon his precious skin
G
I will know my savior when I come to him
D C G
By the mark where the nails have been
VERSE 2:
A man of riches, may claim a crown of jewels
But the king of heaven, can be told from the prince of fools
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
On Calvary Mountain, where they made him suffer so
All my sin was paid for, a long, long time ago
(CHORUS)
VERSE 4:
I will know my savior when I come to him
By the mark where the nails have been
PAPER WINGS (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 7 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 1
VERSE 1:
G D
Paper wings, all torn and bent
G
But you made me feel like they were heaven sent
G D
Paper wings, not real at all
G
But they took me high enough to really fall
C G
Your paper kisses, faded too soon
A D
Just like a paper rose, beneath a paper moon
G C
Paper wings, paper wings
D G
Oh how could I expect to fly with only paper wings
BRIDGE:
C G
Angels singing, didn’t you hear
A D
If only I’d listened close, when they whispered in my ear
CODA:
G C
Paper wings, paper wings
D G
Oh how could I expect to fly with only paper wings
D G
I tried to fly but found that I had only paper wings
TEAR MY STILLHOUSE DOWN (Gillian Welch)
Track 8 from «REVIVAL» (Almo, AMSD-80006)
VERSE 1:
D G
Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb
D A
No gold plated sign, in a marble pillared room
D G
The only thing I want, when they lay me in the ground
D A D
When I die tear my stillhouse down
CHORUS:
G
Oh tear my stillhouse down, let it go to rust
D
Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place, where I made that evil stuff
G
For all my time and money, no profit did I see
D A D
That old copper kettle was the death of me
VERSE 2:
When I was a child, way back in the hills
I laughed at the men, who tended those stills
But that old mountain shine, it caught me somehow
When I die tear my stillhouse down
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
Oh tell all your children, that Hell ain’t no dream
‘Cause Satan he lives, in my whiskey machine
And in my time of dying, I know where I’m bound
So when I die tear my stillhouse down
(CHORUS)
ACONY MUSIC (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 9 from «REVIVAL» (ALMO, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 7
VERSE 1:
C
The fairest bloom the mountain knows
Is not an iris or a wild rose
F C
But the little flower of which I’ll tell
G C
Known as the brave acony bell
VERSE 2:
Just a simple flower so small and plain
With a pearly hue and a little known name
But the yellow birds sing when they see it bloom
For they know that spring is coming soon
VERSE 3:
Well it makes its home mid the rocks and the rills
Where the snows lie deep on the windy hills
And it tells the world Why should I wait
This ice and snow is gonna melt away.
VERSE 4:
And so I’ll sing that yellow bird’s song
For the troubled times will soon be gone
ONLY ONE AND ONLY (Gillian Welch / David Rawlings)
Track 10 from «REVIVAL» (ALMO, AMSD-80006)
CAPO 3
VERSE 1:
C F
There’s a hundred bluebirds, up above the clouds
G C
Putting all the color in the sky
C F
And twice as many tear drops, there to wash it down
G C
Every one’s another lullaby
CHORUS:
G C
But there’s only one and only
G F G
Who could go and leave me lonely
VERSE 2:
There’s a world of trouble, trying to take its turn
I can hear it shaking underground
And half a dozen lessons, I might never learn
Not until them troubles come around
(CHORUS)
VERSE 3:
There’s a mile of blacktop, where the road begins
It takes a time or two to recognize
Growing at the roadside, scattered by the wind
Are everybody’s unsaid sad goobyes
(CHORUS)
CODA:
You’re the only one and only
Why’d you go and leave me lonely