Artist: Peter Case
Album: Torn Again
Song: Wilderness
Tuning: Standard
G
We were marchin' down the orange plank road
Em G
when the federals first we spied.
Am G Am Am/B C
By the old wilderness tavern the armies did collide.
G Am Am/B C
Lead began to fill and whistle through the air
G Am D G
and the dead and dying piled up, their blood was everywhere.
C G Am Am/B C
In the wilderness, I was just seventeen.
G Am D
By far the bloody angle was the worst I'd ever seen
C G
In the wilderness
G Em G
We broke in disorder and fled into the pines.
Am G Am Am/B C
Tangled in the underbrush, we couldn't find our lines.
G Am Am/B C
We faced them there for hours, till it grew too dark to fight.
G Am D G
And the groans and cries for water went unanswered in the night.
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C G Am Am/B C
In the wilderness, the early days of june.
G Am D
Lyin with the dyin, 'neath the green virginia moon.
C G Am Am/B C
In the wilderness, where the devil tempted christ,
G Am D
Lee got on the radio and ordered up a strike.
C G
In the wilderness.
C G Am Am/B C
So we set the woods on fire, stopped them in their tracks.
C G Am Am/B C
We laughed as we saw them runnin, shot them in the backs.
C G Am Am/B C
They never saw it comin from the guns up in the trees.
G Am D
So we let them have it one more time as they fell down to their knees.
C G
In the wilderness.
instrumental
G Em D/F# G C Am/B Am D Em D/F# G F D/F# G
G Em G
I was way out in the wilderness with the stonewall brigade.
Am G Am Am/B C
The captain saw my wounds and said son prayin aint my trade.
G Am Am/B C
Jets were roarin over, we beheld the pride of mars,
G Am D G
With hearts the size of houses and eyes ablaze like stars.
C G Am Am/B C
In the wilderness the serpent wears a crown,
G Am D
but their were angels in the treetops as I lay my body down.
C G Am Am/B C
In the wilderness I was just seventeen,
G Am D
by far the bloody angle was the worst i'd ever see.
C G
In the wilderness.
