Harris Emmylou - Bang The Drum Slowly guitar tab

Emmylou Harris Bang The Drum Slowly written by Guy Clark

Emmylou Harris

A D A

I meant to ask you how to fix that car

D A

I always meant to ask you about the war

F#m D A

And what you saw across a bridge too far

E

Did it leave a scar

A D A

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel

D A

Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal

F#m D A

And still you found the ground beneath your wheels

E

How did it feel

D A

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

E A

To dust be returning from dust we begin

D A

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m D A E A

Above and below me world without end

A D A

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost

D A

And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed

F#m D A

There was still that line that you would never cross

E

At any cost

A D A

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed

D A

With nothing but your heart up your sleeve

F#m D A

And if you ever really were deceived

E

By the likes of me

D A

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

E A

To dust be returning from dust we begin

D A

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m D A E A

Above and below me world without end

E D

Gone now is the day and gone the sun

A

There is peace tonight all over Arlington

E D

But the songs of my life will still be sung

A E

By the light of the moon you hung

A D A

I meant to ask you how to plow that field

D A

I meant to bring you water from the well

F#m D A

And be the one beside you when you fell

E

Could you tell

D A

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly

E A

To dust be returning from dust we begin

D A

Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy

F#m D A E A

Above and below me world without end

From Emmylou Harris "Red Dirt Girl"

Nonesuch Records 2000

Poodlebone Music/EMI April Music