The Old Black Hen - Songs: Ohia

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This song's been out for a while, obviously, 
but I just recently dug it back out to let it break my heart again and decided to learn it.
Couldn't find chords anywhere online, so I had to figure it out myself. 
(way to let me down internet D: )

Intro: 


Old black hen 

is that you ag

ain
            
singing the ba

d luck lullaby

come right on 

in cause it's 

midnight again
             
time for the b


ad luck lullab

y
            
you know the o

             
ne it's the sa

me one you sun

g
            
when you wrote

             
 down the reve

            
lation

   
   


now sing it ov

er the cradle 

of the child w

ho's born next

the bad luck l

ullaby

leave all the 

truth in so th

ey know what c

omes next
         
with the bad l

uck lullaby
            
leave in the t

              
rue love that 

  
they'll never 

find  
            
show how they'

              
re looking for

             
 it all of the

          
ir lives 

   
   


when I saw the

 banner hangin

g over my door
              
and heard the 


bad luck lulla

by

I already knew

 who the party

 was for
    
the bad luck l

ullaby
            
and all of my 

              
pain found a p

  
artner in that

 room
            
and the Devils

             
 tail swayed w

               
ith the tune

   
  

[instrumental verse, same chord progression as the others]

  
  


make that blac

k record roll 

the tapes all 

night long
    
the bad luck l

ullaby

make that blac

k record and w

e'll all sing 

along
       
to the bad luc

k lullaby
            
look down the 

              
long street an

   
d see who's th

at crying 
            
tell them that

             
 every day I l

           
ived I was try

ing 
             
to sing the bl

              
ues the way I 

          
find them

 
  

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