1 (edited by TIGLJK 2025-02-10 17:19:06)

Topic: Total revamp of my Song Lonsome Heart and Empty Sky

I changed the lyrics took out verse 4 and the bridge...   new chords.
It happened b/c I was playing it on my Rickenbacker and all of a sudden it just came out this way - I liked it so much better.



lonesome heart and empty sky By Jim Kenyon


Verse 1:


[Am] He was standing by the road, a cigarette in his hand


[E] Suitcase laying by his feet, he’d be[Am]come a traveling man


[Am] had no wife, no children,just blowin' in the breeze


A [E] life without meaning, he was [Am]fading like autumn leaves




Verse 2:


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[Am] once, she was a sweet lovin' girl, with silky golden hair


With a [E] smile that could take away [Am] all his worldly cares


but [Am] as he held her tremblin' hand, the coldness broke his will


and [E]when she finally left this world, it seemed [Am] all time stood still


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Chorus


[Dm ] So he pours rotgut [Am]whiskey, as his [Dm] anger begins to [Am]grow


Always [D] tryin’ to drown those [Am]memories and [E]what he can't let [Am]go.


[Dm] He walks every [Am]lonely road where [Dm]no one hears him [Am] cry


There’s [Dm] just the ache of a[Am] lonesome heart [E]and an empty [Am] sky .


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Verse 3:


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[Am]They buried her in April, he couldn’t bear to say goodbye


On his [E] knees he looked upward, and asked [Am] God to tell him why


[Am] anger was burning up his heart, yet he felt so damn cold


he [E] was all alone and broken, so he [Am] headed for the open road


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[Dm ] So he pours rotgut [Am]whiskey, as his [Dm] anger begins to [Am] grow


Always [Dm] tryin’ to drown those [Am] memories and [E]what he can't let [Am] go.


[Dm] He walks every [Am] lonely road where [Dm]no one hears him [Am] cry


There’s [Dm] just the ache of a[Am] lonesome heart [E]and an empty [Am] sky .




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Outgo


[Dm] He walks every [Am]lonely road where [Dm]no one hears him [Am] cry


There’s [Dm] just the ache of a[Am] lonesome heart [E]andan empty [Am]sky .


[Dm] He walks every [Am]lonely road where [Dm]no one hears him [Am] cry


There’s [Dm] just the ache of a[Am] lonesome heart and [E] memories that never say good[Am]bye


[E][Am](SLOW picked Am chord, and then one last AM strum soft)




The price of anything, is the amount of life you exchange for it.   - H.D. Thoreau
Your vision is not limited by what your eye can see, but what your mind can imagine.
Make your life count, and the world will be a better place because you tried.
"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except only the the best." - Henry Van Dyke

Re: Total revamp of my Song Lonsome Heart and Empty Sky

I'll  give  it  another  go  tonight Jim