"40 Acres"

By Caedmon's Call

Off the Album "40 Acres"

Written by Aaron Tate

(C) 1999 Cumbee Road Music (admin. by Music Services)/ASCAP

>From Myron Marston (guitar_melosh@hotmail.com)



Capo @ 2nd Fret



Chords:(not relative to capo)  Guitar 2 chords:

   A2  Bsus4  C#m7  D6/9  E     C#m7   D6/9

e--2-----2-----2-----2----2--|---11-----2------------------------------

B--2-----2-----2-----2----2--|---2------12-----------------------------

G--4-----6-----8-----9----3--|---11-----13-----------------------------

D-(4)---(6)---(8)---(9)---4--|---13-----14-----------------------------

A--2-----4-----6-----7----4--|---13-----14-----------------------------

E-------------------------2--|-----------------------------------------



Intro:(not relative to capo)

   A2            Bsus4           C#m7              D6/9

e------2--------------2----------------2-----------------2-------------

B--------2--------------2----------------2-----------------2-----------

G----------------------------------------------------------------------

D----9-----9-------11-----11--------13-----13---------14-----14--------

A----------------------------------------------------------------------

E--7-----------7s9-------------9s11-------------11s12------------------





Verse 1:play intro

Out on these Texas plains you can see for a million lives

And there's a thousand exits between here and the state line

About the last time that I saw you

You said call me Pandora, call me a fool

 C#m7(w/ Gtr. 2)                 D6/9(w/ Gtr. 2)

And I'm thinking this view it could do you some good

 C#m7(w/ Gtr. 2)        D6/9(w/ Gtr. 2)

So drop these scales and take a look



Chorus:

 E                  A2           D6/9

There's 40 acres and redemption to be found

 E     A2           D6/9

Just along down the way

 E          A2               D6/9

There is a place where no plow blade has turned the ground

 E           A2       D6/9         E                A2 Bsus4 C#m7 D6/9

And you will turn it over, 'cause out here hope remains

                           A2  Bsus4  C#m7  D6/9

'Cause out here hope remains...

 

Verse 2:

 A2           Bsus4      C#m7            D6/9

Out here the Texas sky is as big as the sea

 A2                 Bsus4               C#m7           D6/9

And you're alone in your room like an island floating free

 A2            Bsus4        C#m7           D6/9

Your spirit's hanging in a bottle out on a tree

 A2                          Bsus4        C#m7              D6/9

You say that you're the black sheep, I say you're still family

    C#m7(w/ Gtr. 2)      D6/9(w/ Gtr. 2)

So throw that bottle to the waves

   C#m7(w/ Gtr. 2)               D6/9(w/ Gtr. 2)

They'll bring you in to me and from the shore you will see



Chorus

(Repeat last line)



Interlude:

A2  Bsus4  C#m7  D6/9

A2  Bsus4  C#m7  D6/9



Verse 3:play intro

Out here the Texas rain is the hardest I've ever seen

It'll wash your house away, but it'll also make you clean

Now these rocks they are crying too

And this whole land is calling out for you



Chorus

(repeat last line 2x)

A2