Sins Of My Father

	  		  
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    Am                          Am 
    God said don't give me your tin horn prayers 
         Am                        Am 
    And don't buy roses from the street down there 
     Dm                      Dm 
    Took it all and took the dirt road home 
      Am                        Am 
    Dreaming of Jenny with the light brown hair 
     E7                       Am 
    Night is falling like a bloody axe 
     E7                       Am 
    Lies and rumours and the wind at my back 
     E7                 Am 
    Hand on the wheel, Gravel on the road 
              E7               E7 
    Will the pawn shop sell me back what I sold 

              Am                                    Am                  E7 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
              Am                                E7      Am 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond 

    Am                          Am 
    Birds cry a warning from a hidden branch 
      Am                        Am 
    Carving out a future with a gun and an axe 
        Dm                            Dm 
    I'm way beyond the gavel and the laws of man 
           Am                        Am 
    Still living in the palm of the grace of your hand 
         E7                   Am 
    The world's not easy the blind man said 
     E7                   Am 
    Turns on nothing but money and dread 
     E7                          Am 
    Dogs been scratching at the door all night 
     E7                                  E7 
    Long necked birds flying out of the moonlight 

              Am                                    Am                  E7 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
              Am                                E7      Am    Am  E7     Am 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother,  Down to the pond, Down to the pond 

     Am                           Am 
    Smack dab in the middle of a dirty lie 
         Am                          Am 
    The star spangled glitter of his one good eye 
       Dm                     Dm 
    Everybody knows that the game was rigged 
      Am                              Am 
    Justice wears suspenders and a powdered wig 
     E7                    Am 
    Dark town alleys been hiding you 
     E7                         Am 
    Long bell tolling is your Waterloo 
    E7       Am 
    Oh baby what can you do 
              E7                           E7 
    Does the light of God blind you,   Or lead the way home for you 

              Am                                     Am                  E7 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
              Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7       Am 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to  the pond 

   INST: AS VERSE 

              Am                                     Am                  E7 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
              Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7       Am 
   I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to  the pond 

     Am                  Am 
    God almighty for righteousness sake 
     Am                 Am 
    Humilation of our fallen state 
      Dm                    Dm 
    Written in the Book of Tubal Cain 
       Am                   Am 
    A long black coat will show no stain 
 E7                        Am 
    Feel the heat and the burn on your back 
        E7                      Am 
    The rip and the moan, The stretch of the rack 
   E7                        Am 
    All my belongings in a flour sack 
              E7                E7 
    Will the place I come from take me back 

            Am                                    Am                  E7 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
            Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7      Am 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond 

             Am                            Am 
    They'll hang me in the morning on a scaffold yea big 
        Am                         Am 
    To dance upon nothing to the Tyburn jig 
     Dm                                   Dm 
    Treats you like a puppet when you're under it's spell 
            Am                        Am 
    Oh the heart is Heaven,  But the mind is Hell 
     E7                     Am 
    Jesus of Nazareth told Mike of the weeds 
         E7                       Am 
    I's born at this time for a reason you see 
     E7                    Am 
    When I'm dead I'll be dead a long time 
             E7                   E7 
    But the wines so pleasing and so sublime 

            Am                                    Am                  E7 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father, I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
            Am                               E7      Am    Am  E7      Am 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond, Down to the pond 

      Am                           Am 
    Kissed my sweetheart by the chinaball tree 
      Am                          Am 
    Everything I done is between God and me 
     Dm                        Dm 
    Only he will judge how my time was spent 
       Am                           Am 
    Twentynine days of sinning and forty to repent 
 E7                              Am 
    The horse is steady but the horse is blind 
      E7                            Am 
    Wicked are the branches on the tree of mankind 
 E7                                 Am 
    The roots grow upward and the branches grow down 
          E7                        E7 
    It's much too late to throw the dice again I've found 

            Am                                     Am                   E7 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my Father,  I'm gonna take the sins of my Mother 
            Am                               E7      Am 
 I'm gonna take the sins of my brother, Down to the pond 

               Am                       Am 
    I'm gonna wash them,     I'm gonna wash them 
               Am                   Am 
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my Father 
               Am                  E7 
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my Mother 
               Am                   Am 
    I'm gonna wash the sins of my brother 
              Am         Am                 Am         Am 
    Till the water runs clear,    Till the water runs clear 
              Am         Am                 Am         Am 
    Till the water runs clear,    Till the water runs clear