Am        C         F       Fmaj7 
I made a promise to not let go 
            C                   C/G        F 
Our tug of war has only made me want you more 
C          C/G            F        Fmaj7 
Steeped in hard luck and doomed to roam 
             F              Am riff 
My love is braver than you know 
 
 verse 
My forefathers they worked this land 
And I was schooled in the tyranny of nature’s plans 
Dressed in thunder a cloud came round 
In the shape of a lion a hand came down 
 
Chorus  
F           C 
Damn this valley 
F           C 
Damn this cold 
C       C/G      F      Am 
Take so long to let me know 
        F       C        F        C 
It’s plant and reap and plow and sow 
C                    Am7 or B7* 
But tell me will it grow 
 
  
 
3rd verse 
Dig my ditches in the golden sun 
I’d be robbing these trains if I could catch me one 
Sunday Monday now Tuesday’s gone 
Got me stone cold sober in a drought so long 
Boarded mansions and ghost filled yards 
There’s a boy in a water tower counting cars 
Steel traps open and empty stalls 
There’s a well worn saddle but the horse is gone 
 
Chorus 
  
  
4th verse 
Jet black starlit midnight rolls 
I am down in the garden where I let go 
Here on the surface the earth looks round 
But it’s a godless city of cold flat ground