SOUTH DECEMBER ROAD
Garry Morris
(George Green/Dave Robbins)
CD: Live
1995, In-House Records
Submitted by: Christopher R.

Intro: (Am) (F) (G) (Am) 

That (Am) old brown house is haunted 
Said the (F) young boys in the road 
Who threw (G) stones through faceless windows 
As the (Am) sky filled up with snow 
I watched them from a taxi 
And the (F) driver said of course 
That (G) one time late at night he'd seen 
A (Am) young girl on the porch 

  (Am7) And (G/B) it (C) must have been a ghost he laughed 
  I (Fmaj7) shivered in the (F) cold 
  And the (G) snowflakes fell like ancient tears 
  On (F) South De(G)cember (Am) Road 

(Am) (Fmaj7) (G) 

(Am) Something in my heart remembered 
(F) Long forgotten sins  
As they (G) echo through those empty rooms 
And (Am) scatter in the wind 
There's a branch that's barely hangin 
From a (F) dying chestnut tree 
And it (G) sways before the window where 
Your (Am) bedroom used to be 

  (Am7) And (G/B) I (C) drove the old man's Plymouth 
  Through the (Fmaj7) tired Midwestern (F) snow 
  And you (G) met me on the corner down 
  On (F) South De(G)cember (Am) Road 

Solo

Now that (Am) drug store up on Main Street 
Has that (F) sign above the door 
They've been (G) satisfying customers 
Since (Am) 1934 
We drank cherry-flavored colas there 
When (F) we were seventeen 
But that (G) soda fountain's gone now 
So I (Am) bought a magazine 

  And I (C) walked down toward the graveyard 
  As the (Fmaj7) wind began to (F) blow 
  and I (G) stumbled across the headstone 
  Nearly (F) buried (G) in the (Am) snow 
  (Am7) And (G/B) your (C) face filled up my memory 
  And a (F) phantom filled my soul 
  Like the (G) cracks that filled the sidewalk down 
  On (F) South De(G)cember (Am) Road (F) (G) (Am)


CHORDS

Am      x02210
C       x32010
G       320003
F       xx3213