Biography:
Murder Ballads & Other Love Songs is the debut album by The Heavy Horses, the pseudonym under which Canadian musician Justin Mahoney writes and records songs about outlaws, angels, and murder.
Steeped in tradition, and raised on a healthy diet of "the old country", The Heavy Horses are naturally drawn to writing in the same style of music, and make no excuses for it. Although they have never raised a pistol to a man, fled to Mexico, murdered out of love
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[Intro]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Now you're gone must be three years long I still feel it in this heart of mine
Cm Eb Bb Cm
This heavy heart of mine seems to waste no time facing burden in this troubled lonesome soul
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Well the troubles that you find in the things I left behind when you rode off in the dark that night
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And now you're gone for good and I think it's understood that you ain't ever coming back this way
[Interlude]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
They found in you those mines hiding deep within those pines in the mountains where I dare not go
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And I struggled not to cry as the soil closed your eyes and the digger put the shovel to his hands
Cm Eb Bb Cm
But I shed no tears even after all these years that I've spent running 'round with you
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Oh I must have made it hurt as they covered you in dirt and they lowered you into the ground
[Chorus]
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh it's a heavy heart of mine
[Interlude]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
They said when you got killed that the wrong blood had been spilled and the guilty slipped away into the night
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Don't think I felt no shame when I denied to know your name to the man that would've stolen my life
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And I still shed many tears even after all these years that I spent running 'round without you
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And now I'm gone for good and I think it's understood that I ain't ever coming back this way
[Chorus]
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh it's a heavy heart of mine
[Outro]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
Cm Cm Eb Bb
Eb Bb Cm
Eb Bb Cm
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Now you're gone must be three years long I still feel it in this heart of mine
Cm Eb Bb Cm
This heavy heart of mine seems to waste no time facing burden in this troubled lonesome soul
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Well the troubles that you find in the things I left behind when you rode off in the dark that night
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And now you're gone for good and I think it's understood that you ain't ever coming back this way
[Interlude]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
They found in you those mines hiding deep within those pines in the mountains where I dare not go
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And I struggled not to cry as the soil closed your eyes and the digger put the shovel to his hands
Cm Eb Bb Cm
But I shed no tears even after all these years that I've spent running 'round with you
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Oh I must have made it hurt as they covered you in dirt and they lowered you into the ground
[Chorus]
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh it's a heavy heart of mine
[Interlude]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
[Verse]
Cm Eb Bb Cm
They said when you got killed that the wrong blood had been spilled and the guilty slipped away into the night
Cm Eb Bb Cm
Don't think I felt no shame when I denied to know your name to the man that would've stolen my life
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And I still shed many tears even after all these years that I spent running 'round without you
Cm Eb Bb Cm
And now I'm gone for good and I think it's understood that I ain't ever coming back this way
[Chorus]
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Cm
Ohhh heavy heart of mine
Eb Bb Cm
Ohhh it's a heavy heart of mine
[Outro]
Cm Cm Eb Bb
Cm Cm Eb Bb
Eb Bb Cm
Eb Bb Cm
The Henningsens
The Hep Stars
The Heptones
The Herd
The Hereafter
The High Water M (...)
The High-Lows
The Higher
The Hill Country (...)
The Hillbilly Mo (...)