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	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	Gel

	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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Dirt In The Ground

Tom Waits

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