Rock Salt And Nails Chords
by Kate Wolf
Rock Salt And Nails by Kate Wolf is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of D with a capo on the 4st fret. It uses the chords D, G, Bm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
th Fret
D G D
By the banks of the river
G D G D
Where the willows hang down
Bm G
And the wild birds all warble___
D G D
With their high, lonesome sound
Bm G
Down in some hollow___
D G D
Where the waters run cold
C G
It was there I first listened
D G D
To the lies that you told
G D
If the young men were blackbirds
G D G D
The young men were thrushes
Bm G
I would lay by the hours___
D G D
In the cold rainy marshes
Bm G
If the young men were squirrels
D G D
With high bushy tails
C G
I'd fill up my shotgun
D
With rock salt and nails
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