Capo 4 C C/B Am Almost home G Em When I missed the bottom stair G Em You were braiding your gray hair C C/B Am It had grown so long G Em Since I'd been gone C C/B Am And the perfect girls G Em By the pool, they would protest G Em The cross around their necks C C/B Am But our sons were overseas G Em C AmB And we all know about the hive and the honey bees GEGEm C C/B Am Almost home G Em With an olive branch and a dove G Em You were beating on a Persian rug C C/B Am With your bible and your wedding band Em G Both hidden on a TV stand C C/B Am And the cruel wind blew G Em Every city father fell G Em Off the county carousel C C/B Am While the dogs were eating snow G Em C AmB All our sons had sunk in a trunk of Noah's clothes GEGEm C C/B Am Almost home G Em We got lost on our new street G Em While your grieving girls all died in their sleep C C/B Am So the dogs all went unfed G Em A great dream of bones all piled on the bed C C/B Am And the cops couldn't care G Em When that crackhead built a boat G Em And said, "Please, before I go C C/B Am May our only honored bone G Em C CAm Be the kinship of the kids and the riot squad"