Down In The Valley Of Hollow Logs chords by The Handsome Family

Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
From the album Through the Trees

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Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
            A
Two lovers lay in the weeds
 G             D
Safe in the net of their sweaty arms
        A      D
Safe from the wind in the trees

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My love, said the boy, you're the clear blue sky
              A
You're the air I gulp to breathe
  G         D
I feel you rushing through my veins
             A     D
Like the wind rushing through the trees

  G               D
My love, said the girl, you're my secret pearl
                A
You're a string of tiny glass beads
     G       D
You're a burning star I keep in a jar
        A      D
Safe from the wind in the trees

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Down in the Valley of Hollow Logs
              A
Two lovers lay back in the weeds
 G            D
Listening to the howl of hunting dogs
            A     D
And the wind howling through the trees

   G          D
Then insects ran for the underbrush
                   A
As the wind filled the air with dead leaves
  G          D
And every stone turned slowly to dust
          A     D
As the wind tore through the trees

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[Bass arr. for guitar]

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So the young girl pierced her lily-white breast
              A
Her blood poured over dark weeds
  G           D
A silver dagger through her burning heart
       A      D
Cold as the wind in the trees

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Then the boy picked up that bloody knife
              A
And stove it through his chest
   G           D
Farewell, farewell to the wind and the trees
          A     D