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red clay halo-crd
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Subject: Red Clay Halo by Gillian Welch
Song: Red Clay Halo
Written and Performed by: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Album: Time (The Revelator); Acony Records 2001
Notes: 4/4 time with a bluegrass feel, standard tuning, key a G. BUY THIS
ALBUM!!!! It's a goodern.
RED CLAY HALO -- Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
Intro: G
G
Oh the girls all dance with the boys from the city
D
And they don-t care to dance with me.
G
Now it ain-t my fault that the fields are muddy
D G
And the red clay stains my feet.
G
And it-s under my nails and it-s under my collar
D
And it shows on my Sunday clothes.
G
I do my best with soap and water
D G
But the damned old dirt won-t go.
CHORUS:
C G
But when I pass through the Pearly Gates
D G
Will my gown be gold instead,
C G
Or just a red clay robe with red clay wings
D G
And a red clay halo for my head?
G
Now it-s mud in the spring and it-s dust in the summer
D
When it blows in a crimson tide,
G
Until the trees and the leaves and the cows are the color
D G
Of the dirt on the mountain side.
CHORUS
G
Now Jordan-s banks, they-re red and muddy
D
And the rolling water is wide,
G
But I got no boat so I-ll be good and muddy
D G
When I get to the other side.
CHORUS
C G
I'll take a red clay robe with red clay wings
D G
And a red clay halo for my head.
