Take Off Your Old Coat Chords & Lyrics - Eliza Gilkyson

INTRO: [Em]

I've searched in the East
[Am]Searched in the [Em]West
For the [Am]riches that [B7]others were [Em]hoarding

Fortune is a blind god
[C]Smiling in the [G]breeze
And for[Am]getting me on [B7]this side of [Em]Jordan

[CHORUS]
[G]Take off your [C]old coat
And[Em] roll up your sleeves
[Am]Life is a [B7]hard road to [Em]travel [Am]
I be[Em]lieve

Thunder in the dark clouds
[Am]Lightening in the [Em]trees
[Am]No shelter a[B7]bove my head af[Em]forded

Battered by the hailstones
[C]Blinded by the [G]breeze
[Am]That's my way of [B7]life this side of [Em]Jordan

[CHORUS]
[G]Take off your [C]old coat
And[Em] roll up your sleeves
[Am]Life is a [B7]hard road to [Em]travel [Am]
I be[Em]lieve

INSTRUMENTAL: [Em] [Am] [Em] [Am] [B7] [Em] [C] [G] [Am] [B7] [Em]

See that ragged owl
His [Am]tattered wings ex[Em]panded
He's [Am]nailed to the [B7]doorway as a [Em]warning

So I'm minded by good folk
[C]As an outlaw [G]branded
[Am]Yet, I've hurt no [B7]one this side of [Em]Jordan

Up above an angel
[Am]Patching up our [Em]plunders
Our [Am]trials and [B7]troubles he's [Em]recording

Will I find a change there
[C]Better times I [G]wonder
[Am]When I reach the [B7]other side of [Em]Jordan

[CHORUS]

[G]Take off your [C]old coat
And[Em] roll up your sleeves
[Am]Life is a [B7]hard road to [Em]travel [Am]
I be[Em]lieve
[Am]Life is a [B7]hard road to [Em]travel [Am] [Em]