Barbed Wire Halo - Aaron Watson Chords
Chords: Capo, Fret, Cm9, G, And, Deacon, Grace, D, Am, E
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Genre: country, rock, folk
Standard tuning
Capo on 2nd Fret
Listen to the song to get the rhythm, this is my first tab, but i think its
100%
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Cm9 G
Well God bless Texas
Cm9 G
And Deacon Shackleford
Cm9 G
He read the bible seven times
Cm9 G
And he believed every word
Cm9 G Cm9 G
That ol' beat up leather book had been through it all
Cm9 G Cm9 G
He sat on the back pew so he could chew him a chaw
Singin'
Cm9 G
"Amazing Grace
Cm9 G
How sweet the sound"
Cm9 D Cm9
That saved a wrech like me
Cm9 G Cm9 G
He carried candy for the kids in his Sunday dress coat
Cm9 G
He'd take me fishin' after church
Cm9 G
And taught me things I needed to know
Cm9 G
No, Deacon didn't have a family
Cm9 G
Lord knows he wished he did
Cm9 G D G
He told the whole congregation that I was his grandkid
Chorus:
Am G
And today he joined up with Jesus
D G
Wearing shiny pearl snaps
Am G
We sang a few gospel hymns
D D
And then the soldier played taps
Am G D E
I bet he's walkin' with Pete down the street paved with gold
Am G D (let ring out)
Showin' off his brand spanking new wings
G
And his barbed wire halo
Continues with the same rhythm as the first verse.
He married sweet Emma Grace before the war was through
She held his right arm next to his anchor tatoo
He was on a ship off at sea when she died in child birth
He lost his whole world from the far side of the earth
He lost the will to love
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