stanley ralph - "hes coming to us dead-crd"

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Subject: HE'S COMING TO US DEAD Sang By Ralph Stanley

HE'S COMING TO US DEAD Sang By Ralph Stanley

ONE [D] MORNING WHEN THE OFFICE HAD OPENED A [G] MAN CAME OVER [D] HERE

TO THE EXPRESS OFFICE SHOWING [A7] SIGNS OF GRIEF AND [D] FEAR

WHEN THE CLERK APPROACHED HIM HIS [G] TREMBLING WORDS DID [D ]SAY

I'M WAITING FOR MY BOY SIR HE'S A [A7] COMING HOME [D] TODAY

YOU HAVE MADE A SAD MISTAKE AND [G] YOU MUST SURELY [D] KNOW

THIS IS A TELEGRAPH OFFICE SIR AND [A7] NOT A TOWN [D] DEPOT

IF YOUR BOY IS COMING HOME THIS [G] COLD RAINY [D] DAY

YOU'LL FIND HIM WITH THE PASSENGERS AT THE [A7] STATION JUST OVER THE [D] WAY

YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ME SIR THE [G] OLD MAN SHOOK HIS [D] HEAD

HE'S NOT A COMING AS A PASSENGER BUT [A7] BY EXPRESS HE [D] SAID

HE'S COMING HOME TO MOTHER THE [G] OLD MAN GENTLY [D] SAID

HE'S COMING HOME IN A CASKET SIR HE'S [A7] COMING TO US [D] DEAD

THEN A WHISTLE PIERCED THEIR EARS THE [G] EXPRESS CAME IN ON [D] TIME

THE OLD MAN ROSE IN A BREATHLESS PACE AND [A7] QUICKLY RUSHED [D] OUTSIDE

THEN A LONG WHITE CASKET WAS [G] LOWERED TO THE [D] GROUND

SHOWING SIGNS OF GRIEF AND FEAR FOR [A7] THOSE WHO GATHERED [D] 'ROUND

DO NOT USE HIM ROUGHLY BOYS IT [G] CONTAINS OUR DARLING [D] JACK

HE WENT AWAY AS YOU BOYS ARE BUT IT'S THE [A7] WAY HE'S COMING [D] BACK

HE BROKE HIS POOR OLD MOTHER'S HEART HER [G] SAYINGS ALL COME [D] TRUE

SAID THIS IS THE WAY HE'D COME BACK WHEN HE [A7] JOINED THE BOYS IN [D] BLUE [G] [D]

SHE SAID THIS IS THE WAY HE'D COME BACK WHEN HE [A7] JOINED THE BOYS IN [D] BLUE

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