Original Artist - The Story Is Written guitar chord

The Story is Written

by: Verne Garrison, Valley Park, MO

07-07-07 July 7, 2007

The Story is Written---------------------Banjo tuned Eb play Key of D

This (D) is about Frenchy (E) Dubois,

Who was a (A) growing, lanky (D) boy

On a Christmas tree farm in (E) Illinois

The hero in a (A) novel I wrote with (D) joy-(D-7)

The (G)Story is about his (D) plight,

Being (E) raised by a mean Uncle and looney (A) Aunt

Bruno (D) and Aunt Viney, were always (A) right

Frenchy stayed away from their (D) rant.-(D7)

He (G) took cover in his secret (D) cave,

Hidden (E) by the weeds and brush on Salt (A) Creek

Put (D)away in a rock-lined (A) safe,

His journal, he wrote in, every (D) week

Chorus:

So the story is (E) written,

It is in a (A) box on my (D) shelf

Covered with slips of (E) rejection

Waiting to be discovered, (A) void of (D) myself-(D7)

Stories (G) about how his kin homesteaded this (D) place

Clearing (E) the timber to make crop (A) land

Now, full (D) circle, his dad, replaced corn with (A) trees

Frenchy was growing up, lending a (D) hand (D7)

In (G) a few short years, and he became of (D) age,

The (E) tree farm would be his per his dads (A)will

But until (D) then, Bruno and Viney wrote every (A) page

And Frenchy could only dream of this (D) thrill.

Chorus:

So the story is (E) written,

It is in a (A) box on my (D) shelf

Covered with slips of (E) rejection

Waiting to be discovered, (A) void of (D) myself.