Biography:
The Civil Wars were an American musical duo composed of singer-songwriters Joy Williams and John Paul White. After releasing a live-performance album and a four-song EP, their full-length album Barton Hollow was released in 2011. The band won the Grammy Award for Best Country Duo/Group Performance and Best Folk Album in 2012.
Williams and White met in 2008, during a song-writing session or "writing camp" at a music studio in Nashville, Tennessee.
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Other songs:
- 20 Years
- Barton Hollow
- Between The Bars
- Birds Of A Feather
- Cest La Mort
- Dance Me To The End Of Love
- Devils Backbone
- Disarm
- Dust To Dust
- Falling
- Forget Me Not
- From This Valley
- Girl With The Red Balloon
- I Had Me A Girl
- I've Got This Friend
- If I Didn't Know Better
- Kingdom Come
- Poison And Wine
- Sour Times
- The Girl With The Red Balloon
- Tip Of My Tongue
- To Whom It May Concern
- C’est La Mort
- Devil’s Backbone
- Eavesdrop
- I’ve Got This Friend
- The One That Got Away
- You Are My Sunshine
- Billie Jean
- Go
- Goodbye Girl
- I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
- I Want You Back
- If I Didnt Know Better
- Ive Got This Friend
- Lily Love
- O Come O Come Emmanuel
- Oh Henry
- One That Got Away
- Sacred Heart
- Same Old Same Old
- Tell Mama
- Tracks In The Snow
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[Verse]
Em
I had me a girl
B
Who taught me those things
Em
A young man should know
Em
Down down on my knees
B
I’d beg and I’d plead
Em
To learn a little bit more
[PreChorus]
A Em
Oh that woman taught me to pray
A B
I saw Heaven every day
Lord she could
[Chorus]
Em
Ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
B
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
Em
ooooooooh
[Verse]
Em
I had me a boy
B
who buttoned me down
Em
Drew me a line
Em
He he washed me as clean
B
As a sinner could be
Em
Showed me the light
A Em
Oh that boy he taught me to pray
A B
But for all of his spit-shinin’ ways
Lord he could
[Chorus]
Em
Ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
B
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
Em
ooooooooh
[Instrumental part]
G G/F# Em x3
G A B
Em B Em x2
in the original song this part is almost a capella but I'm adding chords anyway for convenience
Em
I had me a girl
B
Like cigarette smoke
Em
She came and she went
Em
I slipped through his hands
B
To my back door man
Em
Under his chin
A Em
Oh that woman taught me to pray
A B
But for all her wandering ways
She could
[Chorus] x2
Em
Ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
B
ooooooooh oooh oooh ooh
Em
ooooooooh
B Em
The Cliks
The Coasters
The Cog Is Dead
The Color Fred
The Commodores