Take 'em Away Old Crow Medicine Show
100% correct.
Capo on 7th fret.
You can figure out the picking its not that hard, but it sounds just fine strumming the chords.
[G]Take em away [C]Take em away Lord, [G]Take away these [D]chains from me.
[G]My heart is broken cause my [C]spirits not free, [G] Lord take away these [D]chains
[G]
[G]Some bird feathers are too [C]bright to be caged, [G]I know i'm not that
colorful, [D]but a bird just the same.
[G]Open up your gate now let me [C]put down my load, [G]so i can feel at ease and
go [D]back to my [G]home.
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[G]Sun beatin' down my legs cant [C]seem to stand, [G]theres a boss man at a turnrow
with a [D]rifle in his hand.
[G]I've got nine children, [C]nothin' in the pan. My[G] wife she died hungry while i
[D]was plowin' [G]land.
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[G]Cant see when i go to work, [C]cant see when i get off. [G]How do you expect a man
[D]not to get lost.
[G]Every year i just keep getting [C]deeper in debt, i[G]f theres a happy day Lord
I [D]havent seen one [G]yet.
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[G]Land that i love is the [C]land that i'm workin', but its [G]hard to love it all
the time when your [D]back is a hurtin'.
[G]Gettin' too old now to [C]push this here plow, [G]let me lay down so i can [D]look at
the [G]clouds.
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[G]The land that i know is where to [C]rivers collide, the [G]Brazos, the Navaso and
the [D]big blue [G]sky.
[G]Flood plains, freight trains, [C]watermelon vines
Of [G]any place on Godâ??s green earth, this i[D]s where I choose t[G]o die
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