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Capo 5

Intro: / G - - - / D7/F# - - - / - - - - / C/G - - - /

            / G - - - / - - - - / - - - - /


                G                      D7/F#

With my swing blade in my hand

       C                        G

As I looked across the land

         G                        Em               Am    D7/F#

And thought of all the places that I'd been,

                  G                         Em

Of that old house that I called home

               G                  Em

Where I'd always been alone

                G          Em          Am D7/F#               

And of that weedy grave that held         

                  C/G   G

My dearest kin.



Chorus:

             C                         D7/F#                G                   Em

And as I cut the weeds from o'er my father's grave, father's grave,

      C                   D7/F#               C/G    G

I swore no child I bore would be a slave



Chorus:

             C                         D7/F#                G                   Em

And as I cut the weeds from o'er my father's grave, father's grave,

      C                   D7/F#               C/G    G

I swore no child I bore would be a slave