################################################################ # The following is the author's own interpretation of the song # # to be used for studying or private use only. Downloaded from # # www.TabGuitarLessons.com. FREE GUITAR SOFTWARE + LOTS MORE! # # Home of the 60 minute fretboard memory technique. You'll # # memorise ALL the notes and positions on the fretboard in 60 # # minutes or less. visit www.TabGuitarLessons.com today. # ################################################################ Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 21:02:19 -0400 From: Mark and Allison Albert Subject: w/welch_gillian/revival_album.crd TEAR MY STILLHOUSE DOWN (Gillian Welch) Track 8 from "REVIVAL" (Almo, AMSD-80006) VERSE 1: D G Put no stone at my head, no flowers on my tomb D A No gold plated sign, in a marble pillared room D G The only thing I want, when they lay me in the ground D A D When I die tear my stillhouse down CHORUS: G Oh tear my stillhouse down, let it go to rust D Don't leave no trace of the hiding place, where I made that evil stuff G For all my time and money, no profit did I see D A D That old copper kettle was the death of me VERSE 2: When I was a child, way back in the hills I laughed at the men, who tended those stills But that old mountain shine, it caught me somehow When I die tear my stillhouse down (CHORUS) VERSE 3: Oh tell all your children, that Hell ain't no dream 'Cause Satan he lives, in my whiskey machine And in my time of dying, I know where I'm bound So when I die tear my stillhouse down (CHORUS)