Vermillion

by The Waifs

tabbed by spinach88


Key of Dm, played in Am with capo on 5


Am/B  x20210
F     x3321x
E7	 022130


   Am    Am/B     C          Dm             F
It don’t get much worse than winter South Dakota
Am Am/B   C                   E7       
My Pa was drunk as a bar room rag
  Am      Am/B     C           Dm                   F
I saw him one more time in the warmth of a beggars’ refuge
Am            E7           Am
Still sailing on his dirty rag


My Mumma’s tears, tasted like seawater
She cried on my shoulder while she sleeps
Then she got cold and idle like a picture
She died with the flowers in the fall

A graveyard cold, late November
My brother Cody combed her hair
But Cody never cried, he went riding with Hell’s Angels
At least he’s found his family there

Me I left town, I took not more than a picture
And a coat of my mum’s to keep me warm
I ain’t never goin’ back to vermillion South Dakota
I never could return

It don’t get much worse than winter South Dakota
My Pa was drunk as a bar room rag