Milk & Tears
Kev Russell – Buttermilk & Rifles
Transcribed by Mike Hiatt
http://www.gourds.org


[E]                     [A]   [E]
Regarding the ramblings I was ashamed
                    [A]           [B]
To ever show doubt or to even complain
    [A]                           [D]  [A]
The myth of scrap iron I tried to clarify
           [E]        [A]         [B]           [E]
With these huge heavy fingers and this gorgeous light

[E]                    [A]          [E]
The failed frame maker took out his rage
                     [A]       [B]
On the wrong side of the atomic age
     [A]                               [D]   [A]
Like rubies or ruses the crooners came whispering
[E]       [A]   [B]                [E]
Scant overtures on the last day of spring

[Break E A E B A E]

[E]                     [A]      [E]
Now sorrow’s been here, slow and bright
                     [A]       [B]
A glazed nasal tone fragile and wide
    [A]                          [D]         [A]
She passed by here lonely in the cool of the day
        [E]        [A]      [B]    [E]
Looking for that old school so far away

[E]              [A]                 [E]
Slink off so sly and never sing here again
                        [A]                [B]
Take yer velvet pipes, don’t trespass here again
          [A]                          [D]    [A]
Take your plea of regret stuffed into several bags
        [E]          [A]     [B]                 [E]
And yer plain, plain sadness where the houses all sag

[Break E A E B A E]

[E]              [A]           [E]
Giggle and bleed throw out yer loons
                   [A]                 [B]
This lonely town’s like a stone on the moon
            [A]                  [D] [A]
Sit by the lamp and wait for the new years
       [E]          [A]         [B]          [E]
It’s a trick of the chalk, it’s all milk and tears.

            [A]                  [D] [A]
Sit by the lamp and wait for the new years
       [E]          [A]         [B]          [A]  [E]
It’s a trick of the chalk, it’s all milk and tears.