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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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