The Light Will Stay On

VERSE: G / D / E / C

I go to sleep, before the devil wakes 
And I wake up, before the angels take 

All my worldly desires 
All my yardsticks of fear 

All my secrets untold 
All my motives unclear 

Hangin' down in the fire 
Burnin' them higher 
Won't take them away from here 

CHORUS: G / D / Am / C

And long after we're gone 
The light will stay on 
The light will stay on 


Watched the city, . . . city of crows 
Watched them fly, watched 'em all flyin' low 

Out above the flood plain 
Just above the dirt road 

They were hungry as winter 
Hungry as us 
Not afraid to be flyin' 
Not afraid to be lost 

And long after we're gone 
The light will stay on 
The light will stay on 

And if you bury me, add three feet to it 
One for you sorrow, two for your sweat 
Three for the strange things we never forget 

And long after we're gone 
The light will stay on 
The light will stay on 

And long after we're safe 
The lights will not fade 
The lights will not fade 





Rebecca Wild 
(sent in by Staale Hvitsand )



Intro.:  Bm  (play this chord through the whole intro.)

Verse 1:

Bm               A
Gathered by the riverside
    D               C   
The current pulls a 100 years 
     Bm
each way
Bm               A
savin´ souls and singin´ songs
     D
They beg and smile, but
C                Bm
murders just the same


Verse 2:
Watch me slip into the trees
breakin´ brush past darkness
and the cold
Grey cases mark the ridge
Reached her grave and fell
down in the snow

Chorus:

C              Bm
That's when I  dreamed 
       D           Bm
that I was Rebecca Wild
C             Bm              D
That's when I dreamed who she was
        Bm
who she was

Verse 3:
Rebecca stood in the union hall
said: «your hand is weak from
holdin' on too strong»
That was the last time she ever spoke
A company man, he drove 
her off the road

 Chorus

Instrumental piece: 

Bm / A / Bm / A / C / Bm / C / Bm / A

Chorus

Last night I dreamed that 
I was Rebecca Wild
Last night I dreamed who she was
Rebecca Wild.





 Cold Eye 
(sent in by Staale Hvitsand)

 

Intro. A B A (play them as single notes)  C (chord)
       C B A (single notes)  Em (chord )            *2
Verse:

           C
Painted so many towns
             Em 
Painted them up and down
              C
Down to the broken ground
            Em
Painted the last one for now

             F
Soon I will stay away
         G
Into the cool nightshade
             F  
Watching the fireworks fly
        G           Em
in the reservation sky

verse 2:

Found only hell to pay
Draggin` these bones all day
sun-up to cocktail time
dragged them till I was blind

The field full of also-rans
stealin` my used up plans
all of my friends were there
They couldn't  believe I cared

Chorus:
     C G                F
When I put my cold eye to it
     C G                F
When I put my cold eye to it
                     G
and I couldn't say no

verse 3: 

luck is the thing I make
luck is the thing you break
after it all went wrong
before I was good as one

deep in the beggin` bowl
I found some scraps to take
drank from your poison jar
found I was wide awake

Chorus:

When I put my cold eyes to it
When I put my cold eyes to it
and I never say no, no I
           F
never say no

Instrumental piece:  (play chords as in chorus !)

Chorus:

When I put my cold eyes to it
When I put my cold eyes to it
and I never say no, no I 
never say no