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The Handsome Family - The Bottomless Hole Chords

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The Bottomless Hole Chords

(ver. 1)
The Handsome Family
Standard Tuning

Am        (A2)     C               G        Am
My name I don’t remember though I hail from Ohio
Am             (A2) C       F                C  ( A2)
I had a wife and children, good tires on my car
F                                            C    (A2)   Am
What took me from my home and put me in the earth
F                                       E              Am
Was the mouth of the deep dark hole I found behind my barn

Am        (A2)               C                G         Am
We’d been filling it with garbage as long as you could count
Am             (A2) C            F             C  ( A2)
Kitchen scr*ps and dead cows, tractors broken down
F                                        C    (A2)   Am
But never did I hear one thing hit the ground
F                                 E                    Am
And slowly I came to fear, that this was a bottomless hole

Am        (A2)         C                   G        Am
I went out behind the barn and stared down in that hole
Am          (A2) C        F                   C  ( A2)
Late into the evening, my mind would not let go
F                                            C    (A2)   Am
So I got out my ropes and a rusty claw foot tub
F                                 E                Am
And I rigged myself a chariot to ride down in that hole

Am        (A2)        C              G        Am
My wife she did help me, she fed me down the ropes
Am          (A2) C                F            C  ( A2)
And then I sank away from the surface of this world
F                                                       C    (A2)   Am
When the last rope pulled tight, I had not reached the end
F                               E              Am
And in anger I swung there down in that dark abyss

Am        (A2)     C               G        Am
So I got out my knife, I told my wife goodbye
Am                (A2) C        F                 C  ( A2)
I cut loose from the ropes and fell on down that hole
F                                               C    (A2)   Am
And still I am there falling down in this evil pit
F                                    E              Am
But until I hit the bottom I won’t believe it’s bottomless

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