The Boy Down The Road Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Long long ago in a house up the road

 Lived a Ammaiden so BmbeautiEmful.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Day after day she looked the same old way

 As the Amsun shone Bmoff her hair of Emgold.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Someday I would go there and ask for her hand

 Just as Amsoon as BmI become a Emman.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

In the afternoon she'd sit in the shade

 And wAmave as I wBmatched from down the Emroad.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Time after time I wished my head to lay

 In her Amarms and at Bmlast she would Emknow.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Then one day a stranger came to call

 And tAmook her far aBmway from down the Emroad.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

I watched 'til the dusk from the fields down below,

 But in Amvain for the Bmnight began to Emfall.

A Am G [G/f#] Em

Then came the message that summoned me to town,

 And my Amknees gave Bmway to the gEmround.

  A Am G [G/f#] Em

Spoken: They say that this message came with her dying breath,

 The vAmery last woBmrds she everEm spoke:

  A Am G [G/f#] Em

"Give my love to the boy down the road,

 And Amtell him not to Bmcry, for I know."