[Intro]
C Em F C G
[Verse]
       C 
In our days we will live 
         Em 
Like our ghosts will live 
         F                      C 
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows
 
Pitching glass at the cornfield crows 
            G 
And folding clothes
[Verse]
              C 
Like stubborn boys across the road 
           Em 
We'll keep everything 
          F                      C 
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw
 
Grandma's gun and the black bear claw 
              G 
That took her dog
[Verse]
            C 
When sister Laurie says, "Amen"  
              Em 
We won't hear anything 
            F                    
The ten-car trains will take that
 C 
 word 
The ten-car trains will take that word 
               G 
That fledgling bird
[Verse]
               C 
And the fallen house across the way 
           Em 
It'll keep everything 
           F                   C 
The baby's breath. Our bravery wasted
  
The baby's breath. Our bravery wasted  
        G 
and our shame
[Chorus]
          F                          
And we'll undress beside the ashes of
     C 
 the fire 
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire 
         F                      
Both our tender bellies wound in
        G 
 baling wire 
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire 
        F                        
All the more a pair of underwater
 C 
 pearls 
All the more a pair of underwater pearls 
         F               
Than the oak tree and its
              G 
 resurrection fern
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern
[Instrumental]
C Em F C G
[Verse]
       C 
In our days we will say 
         Em 
What our ghosts will say 
            F                 C 
We gave the world what it saw fit 
              G 
And what'd we get?
[Verse]
              C 
Like stubborn boys with big green
 eyes 
Like stubborn boys with big green eyes 
          Em 
We'll see everything 
              F                  
In the tender shade of the autumn
 C 
 leaves 
In the tender shade of the autumn leaves 
                  G 
And the buzzard's wing
[Chorus]
           F                         
And we'll undress beside the ashes of
      C 
 the fire 
And we'll undress beside the ashes of the fire 
         F                      
Both our tender bellies wound in
        G 
 baling wire 
Both our tender bellies wound in baling wire 
        F                        
All the more a pair of underwater
 C 
 pearls 
All the more a pair of underwater pearls 
         F               
Than the oak tree and its
              G 
 resurrection fern
Than the oak tree and its resurrection fern