Mark Wills - Jacob's Ladder guitar chord

Jacobs Ladder

by: Mark Wills

G

Jacob was a dirt poor farm boy

C

raised at the fork in the road, in a clapboard house

and Rachel was a land baron's daughter

born with a silver spoon in her mouth.

Her daddy said he wouldn't stand

C

for Rachel to waste her life with a common man

A

He tried hard to keep them apart

C D

but you can't draw lines, in a young girl's heart

C

So late one night by the harvest moon

Jacob climbed a ladder up to Rachel's room

G

He knew his place, it was right beside her

C

step by step, up to her world

head over heels for his brown eyed girl

G

and gettin' caught didn't seem to matter

A- D

G

'cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder.

(Key change to A)

A

It'll be five years september

since her daddy found a ladder

D

and a note on her window sill

He swore he'd never forgive them

A

but nothin' melts a heart like a grandchild will

Now she climbs up on his knee

D

says "Grampa tell the story; the one about me"

B-

He thinks back and his eyes shine

D E

says listen child, once upon a time...

D

Late one night by the harvest moon

your daddy climbed a ladder to your momma's room

A

He knew his place, it was right beside her

D

Step by step, up to her world

head over heals for my little girl

A

and here you are, that's all that matters

B- E

'cause heaven was waitin' at the top of Jacob's ladder

A E/G# F#

E B- E

A

Oh, and an angel was waitin' at the top of Jacob's Ladder