Lyrics

Purgatory
Intro:
Drop D
Verse 1
F
I grew up
C. D
On the purgatory dry creek bed
F
Daddy left
C. D
when he found my brother dead

On the Purgatory dry creek bed

Verse 2

Momma stayed

But her mind was gone

So us sisters did

what we could to get along

Oh, God forgive us

For we knew something was wrong

On the Purgatory dry creek bed

Bridge
F. C. D
Then, Ned Lowe came calling Cass
F. C. D
With that whiskey on his breath
F. C. D
Heard her scream from the hollow
F. C. D
I could feel it in my chest
F. C. D
Oh I could feel it in I’m my chest
C. D
Picked up a round ten pound stone
C. D
And I drove it through his head
C
Ned’s ain’t the only bones
in that dry creek bed

Chorus
G. F. D
Lay your head
F. C D
On the Purgatory dry creek bed
G. F. D
Rest In Peace
F. C D
For the flood’s just up ahead
F. C. D
To wash all your sins away
F. C. D
Washes everything away

Down that Purgatory dry creek bed

Verse 3

Baby sister left
For Paris in the rain
Odessa oil field man
Gonna buy up all a’her dreams
He sent back her bones
In finest French pine, he said
Back to the Purgatory Dry Creek bed

Chorus

Verse 4

I left it all behind
And I headed south
But that ol’ German town
Left me with little doubt
My bones long to hear the gospel read
Lying neath the Purgatory dry creek bed

Chorus
Gonna, lay my head…
That flood’s just up ahead
To wash all my sins away
Everything I love’s been washed away
Down the Purgatory dry creek bed
C
And She can scatter my bones when I’m dead