Old Crow Medicine Show
Take 'em Away

Intro:
D / D / (Walk up: D A B C#)

Chorus:
D                 G
   Take ‘em away,    take ‘em away, Lord
D                 A
  Take away these chains from me
D                              G
  My heart is broken ‘cause my spirit’s not free
D                      A           D 
  Lord take away these chains from me
VERSE 1

D                              G
  Some birds’ feathers are too bright to be caged
  D                                A
I know I’m not that colorful but a bird just the same
D                               G
  Open up your gate now, let me put down my load
   D                         A          D
So I can feel at ease and go back to my home

(Chorus)

D                           G 
  Sun beatin’ down, my legs can’t seem to stand
          D                            A
There’s a boss man at a turnrow with a rifle in his hand
D                      A
  I’ve got nine child, nothin’ in the pan
   D                          A             D
My wife she died hungry while I was plowin’ land

(Chorus)

D                                    G
  Can’t see when I go to work, can’t see when I get off
D                         A
  How do you expect a man not to get lost
D                              G
Every year I just keep getting deeper in debt
   D                            A                D
If there’s a happy day, Lord, I haven’t seen one yet

(Chorus)

D                         G
  Land that I love is the land that I’m workin’
         D                                      A
But it’s hard to love it all the time when your back is a-
      hurtin’
D                        G
  Gettin’ too old now to push this here plow
D                           A                 D
  Please let me lay down so I can look at the clouds

(Chorus)

D                               G
  Land that I know is where two rivers collide
    D                         A
The Brazos the Navaso and the big blue sky
D                               G
  Flood plains, freight trains, watermelon vines
       D                                   A
Of any place on God’s green earth, this is where I choose 
        D
     to die

(Chorus)