Angola's Lament
By Sam Riggs and The Night People
Written By Chad Camp & Sam Riggs 
CD: Outrun The Sun (2013)
Tabbed By Larry Mofle
11/20/15


Requested by: macey.mccracken on 11/17/2015


Drop D Tuning


D
Angola ain't no place to be
D
It's for the lost who once were free
C                                    G 
Fields of fear stretched far and wide
    D
And razor wire goes to the sky
  D
I make my round through the fields all day
          D
While the prisoners work their sins away
C                           G
Shotgun perched upon my leg
D
On sixteen hand tall thorough bred


Chorus:
          D
They sing ain't no way to mend a broken heart
D
Ain't no way to mend a broken heart
D
Ain't no way to mend a broken heart
C               G
Devil holds the key
      D
There ain't no way to mend a broken heart
D
Ain't no way to mend a broken heart
D
Ain't no way to mend a broken heart
       C                G      D  
But to get down on your knees


Desperation in a troubled man
Spreads like poison in this land
I've seen it all from this saddle son
Yeah God rest your soul if you try to run

Oh now ash to ash and dust to dust
Your here because your dreams went bust
Just put that pick axe in the ground
Keep on moanin' that lonesome sound

Chorus

Solo

When the cold wind blew through that old screen door
You didn't hear their screams no more
Blood on the walls and across the floor
Lord, what did ya do?

You drug ‘em down to that old oak tree
Dug a hole ‘neath the tire swing
Wiped a tea,r threw in the ring
And a sawed off shotgun too

You laid ‘em down in the cold hard ground
Side by side the way you found ‘em
Fallin' rain didn't make a sound
And that's when you knew

Chorus