Twisted Laurel

Key of A · Chords: I II IV V VI

Verse 1

A     D              E7              A            F#
Just across the Blue Ridge where the high meadows lay
        B             E7                   A
And the galax spreads through the new mown hay
          D          E7              A       F#
There's a rusty iron bridge 'cross a shady ravine
          B                           E7
Where the hard road ends and turns to clay
       D                       A            F#
With a suitcase in his hand, a lonesome boy stands
B                           E7
Gazing at the river sliding by beneath his feet
        D          E7               A               F#
But the dark water springs from the black rocks and flows
       B               E7             A
Out of sight where the twisted laurel grows

Verse 2

A        D           E7           A             F#
Past the coal-tipple towns in the cold December rain
     D                   E7        A
Into Charleston runs the New River train
          D             E7            A            F#
Where the hillsides are brown and the broad valley stained
     B                                  E7
By a hundred-thousand lives of work and pain
     D                      A               F#
In a tar paper shack out of town across the track
          B                         E7
Stands an old used-up man trying to call something back
        D            E7            A           F#
But his old memories fade like the city in the haze
        D                  E7              A
And his days have flowed together like the rain

Verse 3

        D          E7               A               D
And the dark water springs from the black rocks and flows
       D               E7             A
Out of sight where the twisted laurel grows

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