Cicada Chords

Capo 1(Key: Ab)

D Am C G x2
 
D             Am
My old man he works five hours
     C                    G
when most folk open their eyes
    D                Am
His knees are givin' out
            C                 G
But he says sweats how, he survives
 
   D                Am
My mama worked at a nursing home
C                     G
She told me what they say
D                 Am
As they died they whispered
       C             G
Not to give one day away
 
   D               Am
My grandpa was a mason
        C                      G
He laid brick till his hat was hung
   D                   Am
He told me two cicadas sang him songs
     D               G
When he was wild and young
 
D                    Am
All these years that hurry by
     C               G
Keep taking too damn long
D                  Am
Soon enough you'll hear the sound
              C                   G
Of sound of cicadas singin' their song
 
        D   Am  C   G   D   Am  C   G
Singin' oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh
 
D             Am            
Often times I think of them 
       C               G
like a choir from back home
D                 Am      
Distance has an awful way 
       C            G
to make a boy feel alonе
D                         
I'll send him letters and 
Am
stamp thеm twice
   C                   G
To make sure that they send
 
    D                 Am
You send me sounds of that old place
          C            G
And the cicadas in the wind
 
       D   Am  C   G   D   Am  C   G
Singin oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh
 
D             Am                C     
Me and all my buddies ran those hills 
                G
till they turn black
  D            Am              
Remembering Randal"s smile and 
    C           G
then a baseball cap
D                Am
We lost him with his front-end
C                  G
wrapped around a tree
 
D              Am      
Not a day goes by that 
        C                 G
I don't wish that boy was me
 
       D   Am  C   G
Singin oooooh, oooooh
       D   Am  C   G
Singin oooooh, oooooh
 
        D               Am     
Those cicadas singin as we all 
          C           G
bring our sorry asses home
    D                    
The middle of the spring 
           Am
as the moonlight rings
      C         G
Youll never be alone
        D               Am     
Those cicadas singin as we all 
          C           G
bring our sorry asses home
       D                    
In the middle of the spring 
          Am
as the moonlight rings
      C         G
Youll never be alone
 
       D   Am  C   G   D   Am  C   G
Singin oooooh, oooooh, oooooh, oooooh