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Date: 1/13/03; 6:35:12 PM
 >From: Jdkennedy77@aol.com
 Subject: Red Clay Halo by Gillian Welch
 Song:  Red Clay Halo
 Written and Performed by:  Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
 Album:  Time (The Revelator); Acony Records 2001
 Notes:  4/4 time with a bluegrass feel, standard tuning, key a G.  BUY THIS 
 ALBUM!!!!  It's a goodern. 
 
 
 RED CLAY HALO -- Gillian Welch and David Rawlings
 Intro:  G
 
 G
 Oh the girls all dance with the boys from the city
                                   D
 And they don-t care to dance with me.
        G
 Now it ain-t my fault that the fields are muddy
                  D         G
 And the red clay stains my feet.
 G
 And it-s under my nails and it-s under my collar
                           D
 And it shows on my Sunday clothes.
   G
 I do my best with soap and water
                    D          G
 But the damned old dirt won-t go.
 
 CHORUS: 
     C                       G
 But when I pass through the Pearly Gates
         D              G
 Will my gown be gold instead,
           C                  G 
 Or just a red clay robe with red clay wings
       D                    G
 And a red clay halo for my head?
 
 
 G
 Now it-s mud in the spring and it-s dust in the summer
                            D
 When it blows in a crimson tide,
           G 
 Until the trees and the leaves and the cows are the color
                    D        G
 Of the dirt on the mountain side.
 
 
 CHORUS
 
 G
 Now Jordan-s banks, they-re red and muddy
                          D
 And the rolling water is wide,
       G
 But I got no boat so I-ll be good and muddy
                   D     G
 When I get to the other side.
 
 
 CHORUS
 
             C                  G
 I'll take a red clay robe with red clay wings
       D                    G
 And a red clay halo for my head.