Ramble with an overtone

This queen lives without a throne

Searchin lights they lead me home

I won’t die alone

Gamble with your old wife’s money

You might need to call her hone

Nights re black and days are sunny

I won’t die alone

Hot white cake and ice cold coffee

Get this creapin’ monkey off me

Stomp and rant but do it softly

I won’t die alone

Wait and watch the paint and powder

Turn the noise up and make it louder

I can’t leave here as a coward

I won’t die alone

Wipe your head and be not sweaty

This room feels a little heavy

I ain’t worried I am ready

I won’t die alone

It’s raining on my love parade

Look at what a mess I made

It’s all a joke, a big charade

I won’t die alone

This is easy, this is gravy

I feel like a little baby

This feels like a natural thing

I won’t die alone
I won’t die alone

[C-F-C-F-]
Oh my, can see the time,
Has come for you to cry
Oh my, can’t say goodbye
Lovin you is the reason
Sleep now, rest your head,
Sleep your pain,
When you play, in your dreams so safe to see
It’s your time, we got time,
But I won’t leave you
I won’t leave you.

(Thanks to erin ronningen for tabs)

When I heard the icy water waves crashing on the shore (oh the water, can’t stand the water)
When my little baby said she just can’t take it no more (oh the water, can’t stand the water)
When the earth split open and we buried the man (oooooooh), the man that died a demon with a two-fisted hand
That’s heavy brother, heavy as 10 rocks
When the tall green crops drown underneath the rain (oh it’s pouring down)
When the memories come and your knees buckle under the pain (oh it’s pouring down)
When the take-back man steals away your soul (oooooohhhh) longing in your pockets and you come up cold
That’s heavy brother, heavy as 10 rocks
When sleep won’t come and eyes won’t shut out the light (oh the darkness, oh the darkness)
When you ache for slumber and your eyes won’t close out the light (oh you’re lost your way)
When the compass leads, still lost your way, nothing left to lose but another day
That’s heavy brother, heavy as 10 rocks
When God come to meet me I’ll be waiting at the door (how ya doin’ so glad to see ya)
When He comes down to seek us I’ll be waiting at the door (how ya doin’ so glad to see ya)
The trial is over gonna go with the Lord (ooooohhhh) wont’ have to worry about my sins no more
And that’s heavy brother, heavy as 10 rocks
And that’s heavy brother, heavy as 10 rocks

Intro: D A Bm F#m A

Verse 1:

I thought I was moving but my legs were broken
Words were coming out but they were left unspoken
Maybe I was dreaming in my head, in my head.
Memories were noted but I hadnt lived them
Swords were on my heart but I had long forgived them
Funny how the hurtful voices seem to slip away.

Chorus:
Where Am I Now
I dont know how
I wound up in this place again.
How Am I now
Just bringing me down.
Im looking for a house where the door is open
My bodys moving fast but my spirits broken.
Where Am I Now

Verse 2:
Oh anytime you break and turn the cycles change
Water starts pouring down your face again
You find yourself falling in the safety net you used to call home.
When you focus all your little thoughts and troubles
To the place of clear and cloudy clouds that rumble
Standing in a field of open avenues with no place to go.

Repeat chorus

Instrumental: D A Bm F#m A G A D G A D

Verse 3:
Oh my lips are set and parted but my head is empty
I try to spit it out but it wont resempt me
Tellings just talking that turns into speeches
Doesnt aid the body with the hand that reaches
Stumble in the void to find theres no one there.

Repeat Chorus

Outro: D A Bm F#m A G A D G A D

1.Put me on a boat on the mighty Mississippi
Let old man river slow me down
Been too long gone from my sweet dixie
Chasin’ a dream from town to town

2.So I called my baby in Mobile, Alabama
Said meet me in Memphis on the Jackson Queen
Tell you right now we ain’t in no big hurry
To make our way down to New Orleans

C.Slow me down
Somethin’ ‘bout the rhythm and the rollin’ of the river
Slow me down
Rocks me like a baby in a rockin’ chair
Slow me down
Sometin’ ‘bout the smell of a sweet magnolia
Slow me down
Makes me forget all my trounles and cares
Just a few more miles and I’ll be there

3.Well I need a little time for some relaxation
A little bit of lovin’ from my sugar pie
Only Heaven knows how my heart’s been achin’
For a big yellow moon in a southern sky

(Repeat chorus and 3rd verse)

transcribed by: Paul Leafgreen
leafgreen_p@alph.swosu.edu

Verse:
My thoughts are a little [G6+5]cloudy
My feelings are arou[G6+5]nd me

Yesterday is passed tomorrow’s gone
Let it go I think I’m [G6+5]crazy
You’re gone and it’s just daybr[G6+5]eak
Should have known you wouldn’t stay too long
I can’t tell you what time it is
I’m not wise, it’s just the way i[Em-E7]t is

Chorus:
If I were smart
I wouldn’t have a heart
If I were smart
I wouldn’t have a heart

repeat intro and then verse chords:

When you called me baby [G6+5]
I’m needing you already [G6+5]
You don’t even recognize you’re gone
I hate this cloud I’m und[G6+5]er
And I can’t stand the thu[G6+5]nder
I always pryed on the happiness you brought
Sands in hourglasses hit the ground
Millions of them, lost and never [Em-E7]found

repeat chorus chords:

If I were smart
I wouldn’t have a heart
If I were smart
I wouldn’t have a heart

Bridge:
Oh the tin man played it cool, he said love’s for fools
But his emptiness was real, he wanted more [-]
But when his chest was pounding, he wished he’d never found it
Cause the hurt came hard and tears began to pour [-]

repeat chorus chords:

If he were smart
He wouldn’t have a heart
If he were smart
He wouldn’t have a heart

Oooooohhh

If we were smart
We wouldn’t have a heart
Ooohhhh
If I were smart
I wouldn’t have a heart