The Milk Carton Kids
"The Ash & Clay" from the album Prologue.
Here's one half of the duo. The other guitar chords/tab will hopefully be posted here sometime soon.
If anyone has an alternative suggestion to the F#, please comment. Thanks!
Capo on 2nd or 4th fret, depending on how you're tuned.
F G C C/B Am
The swing sets are empty like dirt turned the dark of the night
F G C C/B Am
The center of this town it used to whirl in the glow of twilight
F G C F
It might look like god's away with all the trouble these days
F F# G E Am G F
We'll come home before the girls are grown
F G C
We're coming home tonight
F G C C/B Am
What, oh, have we done to run this country into such a sight
F G C C/B Am
Stolen from our brothers like we couldn't find a fair enough fight
F G
You wait on promise you will say
C F
Won't forsake the ash and clay
F F# G E Am Am/G F
Let's come home before the girls are grown
F G C
Let's come home to fight
F G C C/B Am
I know we want whats best for us–i know it has to come at a price
F G C C/B Am
I also know the trouble that you find when you stop being nice
F G
You look around you one day
C F
What you once knew didn't stay
F F# G E Am Am/G F
Let's come home before the girls are grown
F G C
Let's come home tonight
F G E Am Am/G F F# G E Am Am/G F F G C
Oooh Ooooh Oooooh, Oooooh oooooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooh ooooh
F G C C/B Am
Have you ever asked a man to take your place at the head of the table?
F G C C/B Am
You could shed away your shame if in the end You found you simply weren't able
F G
You might find out you could stay
C F
On the ash and on the clay
F F# G E Am Am/G F
Come on home before the girls are grown
F G C
Come on home tonight
F G E Am Am/G
Oooh Ooooh Oooooh Oooooh oooooh
F F# G E Am Am/G F
Come on home before the girls are grown
F G F C C/B Am Am/G F G C
Come on home to fight
