Jedidiah 1977 - Eliza Gilkyson Chords
Chords: Em, Bm|, C, Bm, Am, F#m, G, Chorus
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Genre: folk, singer-songwriter, americana
Standard Tuning
Key: Em
This is a great song based on a soldier in the American Civil War, written by
Eliza Gilkyson on the album paradise hotel.
Refrain:
|Em |C Bm|
Played as
Em C Bm
|-------0---------------------|
|--------1----1----0----------|
|-----0------0----------------|
|----2------------4-----------|
|----------3----2-------------| x2
|--0--------------------------|
Verse:
Em C
Jedidiah out in the snow
Am Bm
Walkin' the frozen trenchlines
Am F#m Bm Em(refrain)
Wet boots and his wool coat comin' apart at the seams.
Em C
Rations of hard-baked dough,
Am Bm
Handfuls of melting snow
Am F#m Bm Em(refrain)
What else can a man live on but his dreams?
Not twenty miles away,
in the mansions of Philadelphia,
Loyalists lay their money down on the king.
We've provision enough for the day,
but if victory were just for the wealthy
Our noble cause wouldn't be worth the hardship we're suffering.
Chorus:
C Bm
Send the cloth for a good waistcoat,
Am G
I dream of your hearth and the fields of oat.
G F#m Em(refrain)
I awake to the drum and the trembling note of the fifer.
May it please God in His great mercy,
To shelter our friends and our family.
I remain your son most faithfully,
Jedidiah
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