Long Bed From Kenya

	  		

 
 
  
    C                  G                  Am                    F 
 See the Redtail on her perch upon the fencepost, 
C                                G 
    Highway 40 roll on by. 
C                  G                       Am                    F 
    If I could reach across the distance for a moment, 
C                      G                         C 
    I'd steal the sadness from her eyes. 
    C               G                    Am                        F 
2.     It's February and the weather's clear for driving, 
C                                                  G 
    how I've missed your Tennessee. 
C                        G                         Am                          F 
    The morning sun just stole the shadows from the mountains, 
C                 G                       C 
    and the years away from me. 
  

G                                          F                      C 
    Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able, 
G                      E                       Am 
    but you still look the same to me. 
F                   G                        C                    Am 
    And your eyes are just as blue across the table, 
C              G                    C        
    as the sky in Tennessee.   
 

   + Instrumental 
  
   C                G                     Am              F 
 This old farm is ne'er so big as I remember, 
C                                                     G 
    now the fields are burned and brown. 
C                      G                      Am                    F 
    The Pigeon River's running deeper than December, 
C                     G                        C 
    where the Winter snows lay down. 
                     C                       - G              Am                            F 
How you love your house       and this long bed sent from Kenya, 
                  C                                                                 G 
    and the telling of the story of the woman you met there. 
                   C                         - G                 Am                   F 
    She's a darkhaired beauty    -   my hair's only growing thinner, 
C                   G                  C 
    and my threads a little bare. 
  
  
  
G                                          F                      C 
    Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able, 
G                      E                       Am 
    but you still look the same to me. 
F                   G                        C                    Am 
    And your eyes are just as blue across the table, 
C              G                    C 
    as the sky in Tennessee.       

Instrumental 
  
   C           G                        Am                   F 
In the silence hear the years, we dare not speak of, 
C                                         G 
    let this arrow pass on through. 
C                    G                       Am                    F 
    And I'll be gone before my heart has met resistance, 
C                 G                          C 
    like you hoped that I would do. 

    C                 G          Am          F 
See the Redtail turn her wing toward the mountain, 
C                                                  G 
    God there's sunlight in your smile. 
C                  G                 Am            F 
    If I could reach across the distance for a moment, 
C                        G                         C 
    I'd steal her memory from your eyes. 
  
G                         F                    C 
    Yes I've changed and I knew that I was able, 
G                      E                       Am 
    but you still look the same to me. 
F                   G                        C                    Am 
    And your eyes are just as blue across the table, 
C.                  G                   C 
Than the sky in Tennessee (bis)