Jeffrey Foucault – Doubletree chords

CAPO 3

       EmThe snow falls on the passes

And it covers up the rails
         D                             EmAnd the hired men ride up to make them clean
       EmIt's a winter camp and a frozen damp

And a shovel in your hand
      D                                     EmAnd a coal train comes rumbling through the seam


     Am                        That morning came up shining
          GClear and sharp as broken glass
         D                       EmWe were riding for the tracks at Sugaree
      AmAll holler and high spirit
        GAnd the devil take the last
    D                        EmAnd Henry lay a wager then to me

    Em             He said "I've got five dollars
         
And a whiskey at the bar
 D                               EmSays I make the tracks ahead of you"
       EmSo we touched our horses up
                                 
Sent them running down the hill
      D                              EmAnd I did something I never meant to do

    Am                    Well I cut hard behind him
         EmFrom his blind side I come around
D                               EmJust as we were going down the scree
   Am                                              EmI only meant to scare him but he tumbled to the ground
        D                         EmAnd he broke his neck beneath the doubletree

       G                         D         EmSo you take him cut him out in a length of pine
G                          D               Lay him out in a suit of clothes
G                 CBest that you can find
G            D             EmLay his body gentle in the ground
    C                DAnd say a prayer for Henry
   G                EmBefore you lay him down

     Em                                        The night before poor Henry died
                                        
We slept on open ground
     D                             EmThe circus of the stars a blaze of white
Em                                                               Henry was the best friend that I ever had
      G                      D           EmAnd I slept still as a child      that night