Forty Years Of Trouble

Key of A · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

      A          D
Forty years I’ve been gone
         A                 E
I served my time it’s been so long
       A                D
I took a life I know it was wrong
            A         E         A
I served my time lord knows I’m going home

Chorus

         A         D
Shackled to a ball and chain
            A                    E
I worked in the snow I worked in the rain
       A                     D
I laid the tracks never rode the train
            A  E                     A
Forty years of suffering forty years of pain

Verse 2

        A          D
I had a wife and a little queen
           A        E
I’ve had a son I’ve never seen
           A        D
All I have left now it seems
            A     E   A
Is a broken heart and broken dreams

Verse 3

    A                  D
Now I’m old, I’ve done my time
Ain’t nothin left but to sit and pine
       A               D
Nobody here even knows my name
          A   E          A
I have no one but myself to blame