Rock Salt and Nails
Traditional
As Performed by Druha Trava
V1
E A E
By the banks of the river, where the willows hang down
C#m A E
And the wild birds all warble with a low moaning sound
C#m A E
Down in the hollow, where the waters run cold
A E
It was there I first listened to the lies that she told.
V2
A E scale run
Now I lay on my bed and I can see her sweet face
C#m A E
The past I remember, time can not erase
C#m A E
The letter you wrote me, it was written in shame
A E
And I know that your conscience still echoes my name
V3
E A E Now the nights
so long, your sorrows run deep
C#m A E
And nothing is worse, than a night without sleep
C#m A E
I’ll walk out alone and look at the sky
A E
To empty to sing, to lonesome to cry
V4
E A E
If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were Thrushes
C#m A E
I’d lie there for hours, in the chilly cold marshes
C#m A E
If the ladies were squirrels, with a high bushy tails
A E
I’d fill up my shotgun with rock salt and nails
E A E C#m A E C#m EA E
Druha Trava (Second Grass) is a Czeck blugrass band with some international success. See
at www.druhatrava.com/
