Rock Salt And Nails chords by Waylon Jennings

Key: F

🎸 Intro:

F  C F




🎸 Verse :
          F              Dm
By the banks of the river where the willows grow cold
      Bb             F
Wild birds warble the strange sounding song
          Bb             F
By the banks of the river where the waters run cold
         Bb              F
Was there I first listened to the lies that she told

Riff:
F  C F


🎸 Verse 2:
          F           Dm
He lays there each night all alone and he weeps
       Bb             F
Nothing ain't worse than a night without sleep
        Bb               F
The letters she wrote him they were written in vain
          Bb             F
But I know that her conscience still echoes my name


Riff:
F  C F


🎸 Verse 3:
          F               Dm
If the ladies were blackbirds and the ladies were thrushes
         Bb           F
I'd lay there for hours in the cold rainy marshes
          Bb                F
If the ladies were squirrels (yeah) with a big bushy tail
        Bb             F
I'd fill up my shotgun with-a rock salt and nails


🎸 Outro:
         Bb              F
We'd fill up our shotguns with-a rock salt and nails