Sarah

B G#m 4x B G#m G# Sarah moved down to Harlan county E Found no work and found no bounty B Took her share to feed her kin E And kept em clear of medicine C#m What rotten shape they keep us in B G#m When mama couldn't live alone E C#m Sarah brought her family home B B7 With Emma’s baby due in June E Em Four generations, two bedrooms C#m And not one goddamn thing to do F#m C#m E B E B Can't this world get its use outta me F# G#m I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy C#m A With sunlight always out of reach B G#m Bm E B E B C#m A B G#m The years had slowed the foundry down F#m E So Sarah tended bar in town B It was such a fight to pry the doors E Gettin’ women workin’ on the floors C#m No they don't make nothin’ anymore E B E B Can't this world get its use outta me F# G#m I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy C#m A With sunlight always out of reach D A F# F#m There's not a dream left in my head D G#m E Except to give more than I take C#m A But these walls are painted lead G#m D#m E And my spirit's shak(en/in) G#m D#m E oh oh shakin G#m D#m B F#m G#m F# E B Mama passed in '93 E Tommy got his GED B B7 Emma left and married young E A man content to raise her son C#m But Sarah had nowhere to run B G#m So with nothing left to make her stay E Sarah thought she’d move away B B7 But as she combed through locks of greying hair E The mirror seemed to catch her stare C#m F# No there's no sense going anywhere E B E B Can't this world get its use outta me F# G#m I'm just like a daisy underneath a canopy C#m A E F# With sunlight always out of reach N.C She wondered E B E B Can't this world get its use outta me F# G#m I'm just a like baby left to swing under a tree C#m F# The sunlight never gets to me