D   D
Wake up wake up darling Corey
D                              A   D   D  
What makes you sleep so sound
 F                      F        F   F
The revenue officers are coming
                             D            A   D   D
They’re gonna tear your still house down

D               D                  D   D
Go away go awayyyy darling Corey
       D             A      D   D
Quit hanging around my bed
          F               F     F   F
Your liquor has ruined my body
           D                       A   D   D
Pretty women have gone to my head

          D               D             D   D
Dig a hole   dig a hole in the meadow
           D                  A       D   D
Dig a hole   in the cold damp ground
           F                    F     F   F
Dig a hole   dig a hole in the meadow
           D                   A   D   D
Gonna lay  darling Corey down

D  D  D  D   x2


[Verse]
               D           D              D   D
Can’t you hear those bluebirds a singing
                 D                 A   D   D
Don’t you hear that mournful sound
 F                  F                      F    F
They’re preaching darling Corey’s funeral
                D                   A   D   D
In some lonesome graveyard ground

D                D                  D   D
Dig a hole dig a hole in the meadow
           D                  A        D   D
Dig a hole   in the cold damp ground
           F                    F       F   F
Dig a hole   dig a hole in the meadow
          D                     A   D   D
Gonna lay darling Corey  down
           D                    A   G           
Gonna lay darling Coreeeeeeery
G           D
dooooooowwn