Tear My Stillhouse Down

Written by Gillian Welch

Key of D · Chords: I IV V

Verse 1

       D                    G
Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb
   D                     A
No gold plated sign In a marble pillared room
    D                               G
The one thing that I want when they lay me in the ground
       D        A              D
When I die tear my still house down

Chorus

   G                        G
Oh tear my still house down let it go to rust
      D        D            D      D
Don’t leave no trace of the hiding place
Where I made that evil stuff
    G                        G
For all my time and money no profit did I see
     D          D              A     D  D
That old copper kettle was the death of me

Verse 2

     D                 G
When I was a child way back in the hills
  D                      A
I laughed at the men who tended those stills
         D                     G
But that old mountain shine it caught me somehow
       D        A              D
When I die tear my still house down

Verse 3

   D                           G
Oh tell all your children that hell ain’t no dream
       D                    A
‘Cause Satan he lives In my whiskey machine
    D                     G
And in my time of dying I know where I’m bound
       D        A              D
When I die tear my still house down