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Capo 4
C C/B Am
Almost home
G Em
When I missed the bottom stair
G Em
You were braiding your gray hair
C C/B Am
It had grown so long
G Em
Since I'd been gone
C C/B Am
And the perfect girls
G Em
By the pool, they would protest
G Em
The cross around their necks
C C/B Am
But our sons were overseas
G Em C C/B Am
And we all know about the hive and the honey bees
G Em G Em
C C/B Am
Almost home
G Em
With an olive branch and a dove
G Em
You were beating on a Persian rug
C C/B Am
With your bible and your wedding band
Em G
Both hidden on a TV stand
C C/B Am
And the cruel wind blew
G Em
Every city father fell
G Em
Off the county carousel
C C/B Am
While the dogs were eating snow
G Em C C/B Am
All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes
G Em G Em
C C/B Am
Almost home
G Em
We got lost on our new street
G Em
While your grieving girls all died in their sleep
C C/B Am
So the dogs all went unfed
G Em
A great dream of bones all piled on the bed
C C/B Am
And the cops couldn't care
G Em
When that crackhead built a boat
G Em
And said, "Please, before I go
C C/B Am
May our only honored bone
G Em C C/B Am
Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"

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