Edwin McCain - White Crosses

      

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 White Crosses - Edwin McCain

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 Tabbed by: Kevin Fortier
 Email: hey_man2000@hotmail.com
 
 Tuning: EADGBe, Capo 1
 
 G (320033)
 Cadd9 (x32033)
 Em7/G (022033)
 Em7 (022030)
 Dsus2 (x00320)
 Dsus4 (x00233)
 A7sus4 (x02233)
 Asus4 (x02230)
 Gadd9 (x20233)
 GMaj9 (200033)
 
 1/2 = half a beat
 1/4 = one quarter of a beat
 3/4 = three quarters of a beat
 
 Intro 1/4 1/4 2/4
 Cadd9 - Dsus2 - G - GMaj9 - Em7/G 
          
 1/4 2/4 1/4 
   
 Cadd9 - Dsus2 - A7sus4 - Gadd9 - Cadd9 - Dsus2 
          
 Verse
        G                                 Cadd9  
 Well I packed all of my things into this blanket
    Em7/G                          Dsus2 
 To call this year to earn coyotes fill
         Asus4                 Gadd9          Cadd9              
 Kiss my wife and kids goodbye choke back the quiver in my breath
     Em7                           Dsus2            Dsus2 
 And took my first steps into this corridor of death
       Asus4                Gadd9 Cadd9 
 If Im lucky I will make it to a drain
      Em7/G               Dsus2                   
 With 500 of my brothers, I would share the strain
    Asus4              Gadd9 Cadd9           
 Of standing in this boxcar praying for rain
         Em7                             Dsus2 
 Its the only the way we will quench our thirst
 
 Chorus
                     Cadd9  Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
 G              GMaj9       Em7/G 
 Growing in the California sand
                      Cadd9 Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
            Cadd9             Gadd9 Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7/G 
 We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand
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 Verse
       G                                 Cadd9 
 If we make it past the border, we will scatter
 Em7/G                             Dsus2 
 Vanish just like smoke in autumn wind
        Asus4                 Gadd9 Cadd9 
 I will run until my color will not matter
     Em7                       Dsus2            
 Hopin I can find some work or possibly a friend
           Asus4                    Gadd9 Cadd9 
 There are others who have made it here
                                 Em7/G                      Dsus2 
 They will show me how to find a job and a place to lay my head
       Asus4              Gadd9 Cadd9                
 And I cannot be concerned with dreams of my children
     Em7                   Dsus2          
 For there are 5 others in line for my bed
 
 Chorus
                     Cadd9  Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
 G              GMaj9       Em7/G 
 Growing in the California sand
                      Cadd9 Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
            Cadd9             Gadd9 Cadd9       Dsus2    Em7/G 
 We are the children of poverty trying to a make a stand
 
        G                           Cadd9                 
 I will gladly pick your peaches or clean your hotel rooms
 Em7/G                Dsus2         
 I will do the jobs American wont do
            A7sus4                         Gadd9 Cadd9        
 With their cell phones to their heads and $700  dollar shoes
 Em7                           Dsus2             Dsus2 
 I will risk my life cause its all I have to lose
 
         G                      Cadd9            
 Let the devil in the mountains promise me a ride
 Em7                         Dsus2           
 Found an 18 wheeler and put all of us inside
     Asus4                    Cadd9        
 And just outside of victory, 19 of us died
 Em7                            Dsus2 
 None of our bodies hit the floor
 
           Asus4                Gadd9 Cadd9              
 And so my wife she still wonders when Im coming home
     Em7                            Dsus2            
 The riches that I promised her for leaving her alone
             Asus4                      Gadd9  Cadd9 
 I said that I would send her all that I could save
       Em7                    Dsus2              
 But I ended up in California in an unknown grave
 
 Chorus
                     Cadd9  Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
 G              GMaj9       Em7/G 
 Growing in the California sand
                      Cadd9 Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
            Cadd9             Gadd9 Cadd9      Dsus2    Em7/G 
 We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand
 
                     Cadd9  Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
 G              GMaj9       Em7/G 
 Growing in the California sand
                      Cadd9 Dsus4 
 In these gardens of white crosses
            Cadd9             Gadd9 Cadd9      Dsus2    Em7/G 
 We are the children of poverty dying to a make a stand
  3/4     1/4   3/4   1/4                            
 Em7/G - Cadd9 - G - Cadd9 (reapeat that fading out.)
 
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