village song

[Verse 1] Am C/G F The farmer's wife cooks at the window G C In that small cottage under the willow Am F Over the river, so freezing, so cold F Am C/G F In that white house up on the hill G Where a man saw a way out C And took it he did Am A family moved in F I don't think they know F Chorus F C And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves Am G And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth F C And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet Am G And the petals they fall and turn brown Dm Am/C At my feet C G/B Dm Am/C And the rhythms of autumn wash over me C G [Verse 2] Am C/G F When I return from the city to home G I pass by the churchyard C He's standing alone Am F That elderly man whose wife I did know F Am C/G F Her mother, grandmother, great-grandmother too G C All sleep side by side beneath the green dew Am F That elderly man thinks that he'll join them soon F Chorus F C And the apples they fall like the shells from the guns Am G And the shotgun it misses the hare when he runs F C And he moves like the wind with cold air in his lungs Am G And his little warm heart beats in fear Dm Am/C Like a drum C G/B F C And the night it draws in like the hand that will fall Am G With its scythen black curtain make tombs of us all F C And the sun's little visits are starting to shorten Am G And the village it lives through the rhythms of autumn Bridge F C And the creatures die at the hand of those who kill Am G And the leaves will decay by the winters that chill F C And some will pass on by their own desperate will Am G Just like that man in the white house on the hill Chorus F C And the blackberry juice drips like blood on the leaves Am G And the blood on the fox drips like dew from its teeth F C And the dew in the field falls like petals, so sweet Am G And the petals they fall and turn brown Dm Am/C At my feet C G/B Dm Am/C And the rhythms of autumn wash over me C G And the rhythms of autumn watch over me