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Capo 2
Intro  (as in the verses, C/G is just a transition)
C   C/G  Am
CIn the winter when the streams are frozen
In the winter when the birds don't C/GsingAm  
AmThat's when I lost my home,
AmWhen I lost everything
CKept a-walking till my feet were bloody
Left everything we C/GknewAm  
AmWhen they took us cross the Mississipi,
AmNothing that I could do
CCry, C/GcryAm, 
CCry, C/GcryAm  
CKeep a-pushin on until the ocean
Dancing like a man in chaC/Gins
Am'Till you wind up where the sod is hard
AmHere where you lose your name
CSame people said that I was godless
Same people showed me how to pC/Gray
AmSame people with a pen or rifle
AmSame people took it all away
CCry, C/GcryAm, 
CCry, C/GcryAm  
Fmaj7One more mC/Gile,
G     Em   Am    Am/G (hammer on the low E string on the third fret)
One more night,
Fmaj7One thousaC/Gnd lies
Won't make it rGight
EmCry, Amcry..
Fmaj7     C/G    G    Em Am Am/G
Fmaj7One more mC/Gile,
GOne moEmre niAmght,Am/G  
Fmaj7One thousaC/Gnd lies
               G     (hammer on twice in the second string)
Won't make it right
CIn the winter when the streams are frozen
In the winter when the birds don't C/GsingAm  
AmThat's when I lost my home,
AmWhen I lost everything
CCry, C/GcryAm, 
CCry, C/GcryAm  

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Cry Cry

by Grant-Lee Phillips

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 2 (as written in this song)

Chords in this song · guitar

C/G

Fmaj7

Am/G

Capo 2

Intro (as in the verses, C/G is just a transition)

C C/G Am

In the winter when the streams are frozen

C/G Am

In the winter when the birds don't sing

That's when I lost my home,

When I lost everything

Kept a-walking till my feet were bloody

C/G Am

Left everything we knew

When they took us cross the Mississipi,

Nothing that I could do

C C/G Am

Cry, cry,

C C/G Am

Cry, cry

Keep a-pushin on until the ocean

C/G

Dancing like a man in chains

'Till you wind up where the sod is hard

Here where you lose your name

Same people said that I was godless

C/G

Same people showed me how to pray

Same people with a pen or rifle

Same people took it all away

C C/G Am

Cry, cry,

C C/G Am

Cry, cry

Fmaj7 C/G

One more mile,

G Em Am Am/G (hammer on the low E string on the third fret)

One more night,

Fmaj7 C/G

One thousand lies

Won't make it right

Em Am

Cry, cry..

Fmaj7 C/G G Em Am Am/G

Fmaj7 C/G

One more mile,

G Em Am Am/G

One more night,

Fmaj7 C/G

One thousand lies

G (hammer on twice in the second string)

Won't make it right

In the winter when the streams are frozen

C/G Am

In the winter when the birds don't sing

That's when I lost my home,

When I lost everything

C C/G Am

Cry, cry,

C C/G Am

Cry, cry

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