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Dirt In The Ground by Tom Waits - Guitar Chords

Artist Tom Waits How to play the guitar chord Em.jpg How to play the guitar chord C.jpg How to play the guitar chord D.jpg How to play the guitar chord G.jpg How to play the guitar chord B7.jpg

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Version 1 
            DIRT IN THE GROUND  (Tom Waits)   [tab by AL#13]
(written by T. Waits and Kathleen Brennan)
from Bone Machine--1992

capo on 1st

Verse 1:
Em           C      Em        
What does it matter, a dream of love
              C       
Or a dream of lies
      D                    G         
We're all gonna be the same place 
        B7
When we die
Em                      C
Your spirit don't leave knowing
Em                C
Your face or your name
        D
And the wind through your bones
   G       B7
Is all that remains
Em                  C   D  Em   
And we're all gonna be... 
(4 times)
Em (sung only)
Just dirt in the ground


Verse 2:
Em               C
The quill from a buzzard
Em                   C
The blood writes the word
          D            G
I want to know am I the sky 
       B7
or the bird
       Em      C
'Cause hell is boiling over
Em            C
And heaven is full
      D
We're chained to the world
    G           B7
And we all gotta pull
Em                  C  D  Em
And we're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Em
...Just dirt in the ground


Verse 3:
        Em         C
Now the killer was smiling
     Em             C 
With nerves made of stone
D     
He climbed the stairs
        G      B7
And the gallows groaned
        Em                   C 
And the people's hearts were pounding
          Em                   C
They were throbbing, they were red
      D
As he swung out over the crowd
            G      B7    
I heard the hangman said
Em              C   D  Em    
We're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Em 
Just dirt in the ground


Verse 4:
    Em        C
Now Cain slew Able
   Em                C
He killed him with a stone
    D
The sky cracked open
        G      B7 
And the thunder groaned
Em               C
Along a river of flesh
Em                  C
Can these dry bones live?
      D
Ask a king or a beggar
        G             B7  
And the answer they'll give
Em                 C  D  Em
Is we're all gonna be...
(4 times)
Em
We're all gonna be just

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