Saturday, December 20, 2008

William Elliott Whitmore - Does Me No Good

A.........................D..............A
Can I forgive my past transgressions

.........D.................................A
Can I forgive my own past sins

A
That's not likely

.....D.......A.....................E........A
No I will never feel the same again

Well, it does me no good to say I'm sorry
Although I am, for what it's worth
But you can't hear me for you're resting
Six feet under the cold black dirt


................D.................................A
Oh, them daisies they sure look pretty

...............E......................A
Blooming down by your stone

A..................................D.........A
They remind me that life continues

......................E........A
And I'll never be alone

I'd give my body, I'd give my soul
For one more chance to make amends
But that's not possible for my means could not justify my end
It does me no good to sit and think of
All the things that I done wrong
It took me forever to remember what I should have known all along

Well if you can hear my last confession
If you can hear my final plea
Oh, although I never showed it
Oh, you meant the world to me
It does me no good to recollect on
All that whiskey has done been spilt
And my bow ain't gonna flow all the way down by them bricks of guilt

2 comments:

Unknown said...

thanks for putting all of these up! super helpful... if only i could find the porchlight chords somewhere...

and i always heard the last line as "and my boat ain't gonna float all weighed down by them bricks of guilt" but i've not seen any "official" lyrics for it, so you might be right.

Unknown said...

colin' you're right about the lyrics, just in case you were wondering...