Muddy Hymnal

Capo 1st Fret



 C                                         D

found your name across the chapel door 

G                                        C

carved in cursive with a table fork 

G

muddy hymnals 

                   C                                                D

and some bootmarks where you'd been 



C                                                    D    

the shaking preacher told the captain's man 

G                                          C

the righteous suffer in a fallen land 

G

and pulled the shade 

                      D                                     G

to keep the crowd from peeking in 



C                                                    D

we found your children by the tavern door 

G                                                  C 

with wooden buttons and an apple core 

G

playing house 

C                                                   D

and telling everyone you'd drowned 



C                                             D 

the begging choir told the captain's man 

G                                                 C

we all assume the worst the best we can 

G

and for a round or two 

D                                           G

they'd gladly track you down 



C                                                      D

we found you sleeping by your lover's stone 

G                                     C

a ream of paper and a telephone 

G

a broken bow 

C                                      D

across a long lost violin 



C                                              D

your lover's angel told the captain's man 

G                                                      C

it never ends the way we had it planned 

G 

and kissed her palm 

D                                                          G

and placed it on your dreaming head