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Take Off Your Old Coat

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Eliza Gilkyson - Take Off Your Old Coat
INTRO: Em  
I've searched in the East
AmSearched in the EmWest
For the Amriches that B7others were Emhoarding
Fortune is a blind god
CSmiling in the Gbreeze
And forAmgetting me on B7this side of EmJordan
CHORUS:
GTake off your Cold coat
And Emroll up your sleeves
AmLife is a B7hard road to EmtravelAm  
I beEmlieve
Thunder in the dark clouds
AmLightening in the Emtrees
AmNo shelter aB7bove my head afEmforded
Battered by the hailstones
CBlinded by the Gbreeze
AmThat's my way of B7life this side of EmJordan
CHORUS:
GTake off your Cold coat
And Emroll up your sleeves
AmLife is a B7hard road to EmtravelAm  
I beEmlieve
INSTRUMENTAL: Em   Am   Em   Am   B7   Em   C   G   Am   B7  Em  
See that ragged owl
His Amtattered wings exEmpanded
He's Amnailed to the B7doorway as a Emwarning
So I'm minded by good folk
CAs an outlaw Gbranded
AmYet, I've hurt no B7one this side of EmJordan
Up above an angel
AmPatching up our Emplunders
Our Amtrials and B7troubles he's Emrecording
Will I find a change there
CBetter times I Gwonder
AmWhen I reach the B7other side of EmJordan
CHORUS:
GTake off your Cold coat
And Emroll up your sleeves
AmLife is a B7hard road to EmtravelAm  
I beEmlieve
AmLife is a B7hard road to EmtravelAm  Em  
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