Adam Carroll

Adam Carroll - Errol's Song guitar chord

Errol's Song

Adam Carroll

D G

Mr. Errol he lives on the banks of Lake Arthur

D

Where your windshield gets foggy, where your back roads

A

unwind

D G

It’s a long way from Shreveport, not too far from Gueydan

D A D

And it’s close to the home that I left behind

D A D

Yah it’s close to the home that I left behind

D G

Mr. Errol’s a father, he’s a farmer, he’s a hunter

D A

And he talks to the ducks and the geese and the blind

D G

He works hard for the lives that he helps to make better

D A D

And he lives by the graveyard of the rusted combines

G D

And he held my hand when my boots got too heavy

G D A

With the mud from the rice fields coming to my behind

D G D

We set out the decoys in the dark on the levy

D A D

And we walked through the graveyard of the rusted combines

D G

There’s coffee and biscuits on the stove in the kitchen

D A

There’s a crack in the ceiling and a screened in front door

D G

And as the fog starts to settle on the banks of Lake Arthur

D A G

I can still taste the whiskey from the night just before

D A G

It’s the Crown Royal whiskey from the night just before

G D

And it’s hard to get up at five in the morning

G D A

Put your guns, put your shells, put your wine in a sack

D G

We look like some militia in our boots and our camo

D A G

With a bird dog named Milo, he’s asleep in the back

G D

He held my hand when my boots got too heavy

G D A

With the mud from the rice fields coming to my behind

D G D

We set out the decoys in the dark on the levy

D A D

And we walked through the graveyard of the rusted combines

D G

The combine’s a monster, combine’s a saviour

D A

Looking down at the blades I can see heaven and hell

D G

Cold steel cut the rice crops for acres and acres

D A D

Bill how many barrels? Man I cannot tell

D A D

Bill how many dryers? Man I cannot tell

D G

From the banks of Lake Arthur to the Mermentau River

D A

There’s water as far as your good eyes can see

D G

At the Lake Arthur bar all the old men get rowdy

D A D

They got bottles of whiskey that are older than me

G D

He held my hand when my boots got too heavy

G D A

With the mud from the rice fields coming to my behind

D G D

We set out the decoys in the dark on the levy

D A D

And we walked through the graveyard of the rusted combines

D G

Sometimes I dream of a girl in a pickup

D A

With her window rolled down and her radio on

D G

And you look at the cypress on the Highway 190

D A D

And you give her away and you sing Jole Blon

D A D

And you give her away and you sing Jole Blon

D G

And Mr. Errol’s a good friend he never a stranger

D A

When I come back it seems like I’ve always been here

D G

There’s a sign in his kitchen it’s written in French

D A D

“If you run out of Schlitz, you’ve run out of beer”

G D

He held my hand when my boots got too heavy

G D A

With the mud from the rice fields coming to my behind

D G D

We set out the decoys in the dark on the levy

D A D

And we walked through the graveyard of the rusted combines

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