Old Jerome

INTRO: C


Drinking early morning coffee
F
Talking with good friends
    C                              
And walking the streets of 
  G7
rough-cut stone
        C
She was once a miner's city
         F                         
Now the ghost of a dying town, but 
          C
there's a fire
        G7              C
Burning bright in old Jerome


Am                          Em
Some have come for fortune, some 
have come for love
    F                      C      
And some have come for the things 
            G7
they cannot see
        C
Now the grass is green and growing
          F                        
Where the gardens once had died and
     C
 the birds sing
       G7              C        
In the young Ailanthus trees
G7   C




And they say that once you live here
       F
You'll never really go
              C                 
'Cause she'll have a hold on you 
           G7
until you die
         C
With her ground moving crazy
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    F                              
Her fierce wind blowing free and 
  C
her ruins
         G7                C
Standing proud against the sky


Am                           
Houses cling to mountains like 
  Em
miners cling to dreams
          F              C        
They hold on so long and then they
          G7
 just let go
         C
And this mountain she's your 
mistress
       F                         
You'll ride her 'til you fall and 
      C
wash down
       G7           C
To the valley far below


CHORUS:
          Am                  
There are stories they tell on 
     F
Cleopatra
          C                        
There are stories that never can be
 G7
 told
    Am           F               
The wind and the rain sing their 
C             Am
mountain lullaby
    G                  G7      C
The copper shines like Arizona gold


INTERLUDE: Am  F  C  G7  C



And her walls stand strong and 
silent
        F
Staring out with empty eyes
     C                             
Like beggars blind and lame that do
    G7
 no harm
           C
With their empty rooms that hold
    F                             
The old town's memories and their 
C
doorways
           G7             C
That reach out like empty arms


       Am                        
In the streets the children play, 
          Em
climbing up the crooked stairs
    F                C            
And lovers touch and turn to go 
   G7
back home
        C
And the sounds of hammers echo
       F                        C
In the once forgotten halls and hope
 stirs
       G7             C
In the heart of old Jerome


CHORUS:
    Am                        F
The moon shines bright on Cleopatra
          C                     
Where the mines lie sleeping far 
   G7
below
    Am           F               
The wind and the rain sing their 
C             Am
mountain lullaby
    G                  G7      C
The copper shines like Arizona gold