Max Stalling - Saddest Song Ever G Bm In 96' we laid babe to rest Really she laid herself Am D We just bought the hole for her And a backhoe did it's best G Bm To drown our a silence That each one of us felt Am D G That old mare with the matted hair And gate as smooth as silk
Babe was just a vestige Of childhood on my spurs It's hard to look that in the face And have a thing to say Now theres no need to close the gaps To keep the fences fixed There's nothing much left for getting out since the year of 96' C D G Oh there's a hole in the moon sometimes C D G Through it I see were I've been C D C D G And where I've been is where I am going again Good jobs called us kids away And hard times got the town Only major holidays And funerals brought us round Mistole got the climbing tree And a falling branch took the barn Shined old babes saddle up But didn't know what for Chorus Spoken--- Sometimes you had to trick that old mare With one hand holding the bridal behind your back The other one offereing up some sugar cubes And that memory is just as sharp edged and sweet And one that I hope I never loose But once you got her bridaled She'd take you anywhere on those 50 acres As your imagination could create Arn't all our best memorys like that Illusive and sweet yet waiting at the gate Sunsets here were just as pretty As they ever were back then But somehow seem more poinent In light of how things have been Lawyer says it's all real clear The house the land the will I hear that harold Johnsons Got a colt he'd like to sell Chorus