Am
The north wind blows a prairie fire
  G               Am
Across the open plain
  Am
A light shines on a granite stone
  G                     Am
Where someone carved my name


[Chorus]
 F                     G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am             F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                  F
Things have gotten out of hand
  G           Am
Here in Arkansas


[Verse 2]
  Am
An icy ring around the moon
  G             Am
A fire across the sky
  Am
They buried me this afternoon
  G                Am
And left me here to die


[Chorus]
   F                   G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am            F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand
  G          Am
Here in Arkansas


[Verse 3]
 Am
Sheriff Clark, Reverend, Friend
 G            Am
Missus Worthington
 Am
Told my family that I'd be the end
 G              Am
To all they've done


[Chorus]
 F                      G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am            F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand
  G        Am
Here in Arkansas


[Verse 4]
 Am
Mother raised the children
  G            Am
Daddy worked the farm
 Am
I was born the seventh son
 G              Am
Of the seventh-born


[Chorus]
  F                    G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am           F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand
G            Am
Here in Arkansas


[Verse 5]
 Am
All the elders did decree
  G             Am
My soul to be unclean
  Am
They strapped me to a gurney
  G            Am
And gave me morphine


[Chorus]
  F                  G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am             F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand
 G            Am
Here in Arkansas


[Verse 6]
 Am
Sister walks into the night
 G                   Am
And prays, my soul to save
 Am
And underneath the cold moonlight
  G              Am
She finds my open grave


[Chorus]
 F                  G
Sister, find the preacher-man
  Am           F
Daddy, call the law
  Am                F
Things have gotten out of hand
  G         Am
Here in Arkansas


[Outro]
   Am
The north wind blows a prairie fire
   G         Am
Here in Arkansas