CAPO 3

VERSE 1:
C F
There's a hundred bluebirds, up above the clouds
G C
Putting all the color in the sky

CAPO 7

VERSE 1:
C
The fairest bloom the mountain knows

Is not an iris or a wild rose
F C
But the little flower of which I'll tell

VERSE 1:
D G
Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb
D A
No gold plated sign, in a marble pillared room

CAPO 1

VERSE 1:
G D
Paper wings, all torn and bent
G
But you made me feel like they were heaven sent

CAPO 5

VERSE 1:
G D
When I cross over, I will shout and sing
G D C G

CAPO 5

VERSE 1:
C G C
A long time ago I left my home
F C
For a job in the fruit trees
C G C

CAPO 5

VERSE 1:
G
Oh the night came undone like a party dress
D
And fell at her feet in a beautiful mess

VERSE 1:
D
I've got an old V - 8, from the year I was born
G F Em7
Don't look like much, just a flat black Ford
D

CAPO 5

VERSE 1:
Em C
We lease twenty acres and one Ginny mule
B7 Em
>From the Alabama trust
Em C

CAPO 1

VERSE 1:
G D

I am an orphan, on God’s highway
G C