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Brokedown Palace

Artist Name
Grateful Dead
Album
American Beauty
Release
1970

Brokedown Palace
by Jerry Garcia and Robert Hunter

G                 Am     Bb                         C
Fare you well, my honey, fare you well my only true one.
G                       Dm          Bb                C
All the birds that were singing are flown, except you alone

F                   Bb
Going to leave this Broke-down Palace,
F                  Dm            Bb    F     Gm
On my hands and my knees, I will roll, roll, roll
F             A          Bb        F
Make myself a bed by the waterside,
F                 G            Bb     F
In my time, in my time, I will roll, roll, roll
F         A                Bb               F      G
In a bed, in a bed, by the waterside I will lay my head
F                   G                   Bb      F
Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul

F                           Bd
River gonna take me Sing me sweet and sleepy
F                 Dm             Bd  F    Gm 
Sing me sweet and sleepy all the way back home
F               A            Bd           F 
It's a far-gone lullaby sung many years ago
F                G                        Bd    F  
Mama, Mama, many worlds I've come since I first left home

Going home, going home
by the waterside I will rest my bones
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul

Going to plant a weeping willow
On the bank's green edge, it will grow, grow, grow
Sing a lullaby beside the water
Lovers come and go-the river roll, roll, roll

Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
to rock my soul.

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