Dirt chords by Cody Jinks

Tuning: Half-Step Down (D# G# C# F# A# D#)

Key: Eb

Difficulty: Novice

All chords shapes used below are relative to the tuning

Intro:
A F#m E
A F#m E

Verse:
  F#m
I remember that summer
   D
I was ten years old
     A       E
When our days ceased to shine
    F#m
No, you could not take a breath
      D
When those black blizzards came
     A          E
Strippin' land in dire need of rain

Verse:
     F#m
There was dirt on the floor
    D
As mama swept all day long
    A                E
Leavin' trails of tears and mud down her face
     F#m
There was dirt in our beds
       D
And there was dirt in our clothes
       A             E
And there was dirt in the little that we ate

Verse:
    F#m
We had heard about the market's fall
 D
A couple years before
    A                 E
But the fields and the harvest all seemed fine
  F#m
Sometimes the things that kill us
D
That which we don't know
   A                E
That strip the land of everything but pride

Chorus:
A
Stay close together
F#m            E E E E
That's all we knew to get by
  A
I recall a helpless feelin'
F#m         E
First time that I sa-aw my father cry
D               A
Looking back on everything we had
           E E E E
And on everything we lost
A          F#m
Still makes me wonder
            E E E E
Was staying wo-rth the cost

Verse:
     F#m
A lot of town folk up and left
       D
They boarded up the schools and banks
    A
And the churches
           E
And that, to me, was wrong
     F#m
Come next year, it would be better
    D
For the last one standing tall
    A              E
For the ones - that showed the most resolve

Verse:
   F#m
They announced the New Deal
        D
With the Conservation Act and then
  A              E
The Relief Fund - we were on our knees
     F#m
There was little hope by then
      D
So we just stood there in that line
    A                   E
And we thanked the man for that little bit of cheese

Chorus:
A
Stay close together
F#m            E E E E
That's all we knew to get by
  A
I recall a helpless feelin'
F#m         E
First time that I sa-aw my father cry
D               A
Looking back on everything we had
           E E E E
And on everything we lost
A          F#m
Still makes me wonder
            E E E E
Was staying wo-rth the cost

Outro:
F#m D A E
F#m D A E
F#m D A E
F#m D A E