Zach Bryan - Birmingham: chords

        Em               G
Well, I killed a man in Birmingham
   C              G
I hit him with a tire iron
   Em                  G             C  G
He did not move and I do not give a damn

I've been working here like a slave mule
Sucking the earth of dry crude
Looking for a way out of it all

Cops are comin'
I can feel em’ here
My back is crawling with standing hair
Wouldn’t mind to see a few pigs fall

Chorus:
            Em          G
So take me down to the river
     C                G
My blood all on the floor
      Em                     G
Cause I don't know if I can carry this weight
      C         G
Much longer anymore
Em              G
Take me up the mountain
       C                   G
On a cloud bound for the sky
 Em               G
Don't go praying for me
           C                     G
Because tonight I'm prepared to die

That night out there in Birmingham
that boy he tried to rob me
I did not want to but I had to show
that boy the real me
That night I often wonder what
my tombstone will say?
Would it mention any of my good or just
the evil in my days?
The dust has not settled from the boys
that busted in
I am not a bad man but there's
bullets in my skin

Chorus:
Take me down to the river
My blood all on the floor
'Cause I don't know if
I can carry this weight much longer anymore
Take me up the mountain
On a cloud bound for the sky
Don't go prayin' for me
because tonight I'm prepared to die

Well I killed a man in Birmingham
that boy he tried to rob me
I did not want to but I had to show
that boy the real me