Chris Stapleton – Scarecrow In The Garden Chords

Well he came from Northern Ireland, searching for the free man’s ground
And he came to bet his fortune, on a West Virginia plow
He built a house of timber, and raised a redhead son
Then they worked the land together, and prayed the rain would come

There’s a scarecrow in the garden, that looks like Lucifer
And I’ve been reading Revelations, with my bare feet in the river

Well the redhead’s son got older, and took a brown eyed wife
And the fields were green as dollars, ’cause the dirt was black as night
I came in late September, the youngest one of three
And my sisters off and married, so the land was left to me

There’s a scarecrow in the garden, that looks like Lucifer
And I’ve been reading Revelations, with my bare feet in the river

I know every single fencepost, every rock that goes around
I’ve been staring at the red oak, where I know they’ll lay me down
The fields ain’t what they once were, the rains just seem to flood
And I’ve been thinking about that river, wondering how it turned to blood

I’ve been sitting here all morning, I was sitting here all night
There’s a bible in my left hand, and a pistol in my right