Magnolia Electric Co - Song For Willie

Capo IV

D..G..A..C

D..A..D

Bm........G............A...........C

as long as there are sundowns

...............D..........A........D

there will always be the west

........F#m.......Bm............................A...........D

in the hopeless times what hope have I hung to

..............................A...................G

for one the western skies and the rest

...................D

you're baby blue

D...A...D...A...Em...G

Bm......................G.................A...............D

till your tears just mirrored my rambler's heart

...........................A..............G

and it was goodbye tried and true

Bm........A......D

goodbye baby blue

Bm...........................G...........A..............D

I need a home for any road to guide me home

........Em...................A....................G

and a rambler carries always all his sins

............Bm..............G.......................A...............D

but what weighs him down are all the questions now

............Em......A.....G

that the Lord's quit asking

Bm........G............A...........C

as long as there are sundowns

...............D..........A........G

there will always be the west

...............D..........A........D

there will always be the west

Magnolia Electric Co - Shenandoah

Bm................E......................A
Shenandoah how long will I miss you

Bm.................E........................A
tonight you're far away as the Kentucky moon

........F#m..................E...........................Bm
and I know you hold a secret of mine or two

Bm...............E................................A
tonight little darling my heart's with you

Wabash between us
fill the cannonball blues
maybe I really did see the light
halfway to Heaven's fine, but I could not be sure
halfway is all there ever was
and I know that you hold a secret of yours or two
tonight little darling my heart's with you

there's just so much a man can miss
and just no end to what he can regret
and I'm holding on to whatever hope shall get through
and tonight little darling my heart's with you
tonight little darling my heart's with you

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Magnolia Electric Co - O! Grace

Capo IV

D......................................Bm
she said I've been the stockyard's pony

.................D.............................Bm............A
she said I've been the mountain engine's roll

........G............................D
from Chicago to West Virginia

...................Bm.......................A...............Em
I've been as lonesome as the world's first ghost

G.......................................D
as lonesome as the world's first ghost

but out here even the prairie doubts the horizon
all I have to do is prove that I'm not pure
oh the right words come but I ain't talking
the devil's mean but he's honest just as sure
oh he is honest just as sure

A..................................G.......D
oh grace when you stop believing

A.......................................G........D
that don't mean that it just goes away

........A..........................G........D
it's a long way between horizons

...............Bm........A.........Em
and it gets farther every day

G....A.....G.....D
oh grace, oh grace

oh grace when you stop believing
that don't mean that it just goes away
it's a long way between horizons
and it gets farther every day
oh grace, oh grace

she says but I know a man who's heart is restless
he's never home and he's never gone
and he had some good things but he lost them
like everything he ever set his heart upon
oh that he set that heart upon

oh boy if you stop believing
that don't mean that I just walk away
it's a long way between horizons
and it gets farther every day
oh grace
oh grace

Magnolia Electric Co - Rock of Ages

C
rock of ages

.........Am
and a carbide lamp

..........F.....................................C..........G
on the bridge that no one would name

.................C
we gave it hours

....Am
of mercy

........F...........C.......G
little darling, amen

and the little hope
you'd thought we'd lost
and then back the way we came

this little lamp
lays her heart
at the feet of the light
the lantern will not stand
oh mercy, amen

me and this old girl
we tried and tried
not looking back again

Magnolia Electric Co - Whip-Poor-Will

C...........G...........................F........................C
i got my window open in the southern cross hotel

C................G............................F..........C
it's been my longest night i can tell

C.........G................F...............C
by the way i'm not surprised

C............G..................F............C
to see the desert come over paradise

now count every rhododendron in this cool mountain light
i've made more mistakes than that just tonight
so all of you folks in heaven not too busy ringing the bell
some of us down hear ain't doing to well
some of us with our windows open in the southern cross hotel

still waiting
still waiting
for you to sing that song again
the one you were singing at the very fall of man
it ain't hallelujah but it might as well have been
sing it brother one more time
sing it brother one more time
sing it sister one more time
sing it sister one more time

once for everybody who got left behind
whip-poor-will
oh whip-poor-will
whip-poor-will

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Magnolia Electric Co - Down the Wrong Road Both Ways

Bm..........D.................G................D
If I could follow my whole life’s track

Bm................................A
I’d still be here at the crossroads, dear

....................G..........................D
My broken heart has never left
Half the time it took half my life
To have half a right to say
Nothing ever makes it home
That takes the blue star highway
Nothing ever makes it home
That takes the blue star highway

If today you’re left with nothing
Be thankful you’re not left with less
Some of us only lose the dark
To get lost in darkness
Red crescent moon you can lay the lantern down
I’m back where you join hands
With the blue highway now
If I could have my heart come back
And be forgiven for them old days
I’d be headed where I always been
Down the wrong road both ways
I’d be headed where I always been
Down the wrong road both ways

Magnolia Electric Co - North Star

G
You used to say I had what it takes

.............Bm
I think I did if you meant too little too late

...................C
And by the looks that I’m getting

......................G
I made some big mistakes

G.............................................D
But I thought you said I was great

I shoot straight and give it my best try
I made my heart as hard as nails
And that might be the way you live your life
But it’s almost got me killed


C
Darling I’m not giving in

Em............................C
That happened miles ago

G................D
I heard the North Star saying

C....................................D..........................G
Kid you’re so lost even I can’t bring you home

Em..D..Em..D

Now did you think that we was gonna last
Well honey you know you don’t have to answer that
Half of that was my kind of joke
But I don’t remember which half

I didn’t know how blue I’d get
I didn’t know how I’d get blamed for it
I didn’t chose to go down this road
No one chooses to be sick

I’m saying everything is fine
By the look in my eye
But you know darling
Half of what a man says in a lie
It’s your last chance to forgive me now
It’s done for good
You always said I’d make it out
Somehow darling I knew I never would

Magnolia Electric Co - Don't This Look Like the Dark

G....................Em....................D.......................G..G/F#..Em
Six and a half hours into the West Virginia night

Em.......................D..........................C................................G
Half a mile from home and I was making pretty good time
I thought that I’d gone far enough
I couldn’t lose the trail
then I stepped through the door
And I still found a way to fail

I can’t start to count the things I said I’d never be
And I became them all the night you quit counting on me

........Am..........................................D
And all the hard things that you said to my heart

............G......................................F
Every one of them things rang true

..........................C........................G
But it was that one look at the end

C..................................G
That one look at the end (x2)

.....................F
That ran it through

Now that the big gray owl above me
She starts again to wail
She says that moon has got so low tonight
That it’s polishing the rail
That mountain engine’s running about thirty years too late
Once you hear it coming boy
It will not let you wait
I used to think that tomorrow was just out there waiting for me
But now i wonder where tomorrow
I wonder where tomorrow
I wonder where tomorrow’s going to be

Tonight when i am rolling over the Earth’s most lonesome ground
I will think of all the ways next time
I will try not to let you down
I thought that I’d live long enough
That the light would come shining through
Don’t this look like the dark (x3)

Don’t it look like the dark (x3)

Magnolia Electric Co - What Comes After the Blues

Dm......................F
Now who was I, now who am I

C.............................G
Lord what have I done

Dm..................................F
Whistle blow down the B&O

......................C............................................G
Sounds like maybe someone’s time has come
What comes after the blues (x3)
After the blues

You see I nailed my guilt to the back of my eyes
So I see it now before the sun
Now who was I, now who am I
Lord what have I done
What comes after the blues, after the blues (x2)

Now Noah must have had a lot of room on the ark
For all of them broken hearts
Stay with me now old crimson pal
Pain like this will even outlive the dark
They come after the blues, come after the blues (x2)

Magnolia Electric Co - Texas 71

E.............A...................G#m
Now I think twice about every bargain

E.................A................................G#m
Everything I’ve had and what I’ve walked out on

F#m........G#m......A
All the lone star horizon (x2)


The ones I leave and the ones ahead
The chance I had and the choice instead
All the lone star horizons (x2)

Now which one of these can I not outrun
And which one of these can I
All the lone star horizons (x2)

.............E....D...A
Baby down Texas ‘71

........E....D...A
Down Texas ‘71 (x3)
All the lone star horizons (Texas ‘71) (x3)

Magnolia Electric Co - Nashville Moon

A.......................E
How many ghosts will I meet on the road

.......D
That depends

............A
How hard you running

A........
And that depends

.............E.....................D...............................A
Which ones you know and which ones know that you’ll be coming

E........................Bm
How far away is that Nashville moon

.......D
That depends

..............A
Where did she leave you
And how many miles til my mistakes catch up
That depends
Which ones you’re counting
And that depends
What you’re forgetting again
Does it matter whose side I’m on
Or does that depend
Baby on the fight
Does it matter that every star fell from the sky
Or does that depend
Baby on the night
How far away is that Nashville Moon
That depends
Which road you taking
I’ve been on that road and it was darkness end to end
And I just headed for the dark again
How far am I from living my whole life
Only in the dark (x2)
I’d say friend
You know that depends on how close you are

Magnolia Electric Co - Lomesome Valley

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Dm C G
Am C G
F C
Bb F C

.....................Dm.....................C........G
I watched you walk out from the world before

.......Am................C....................G
And nothing asked you to be much more

.................F..............C
Than just a handful of dust

Bb................F........................C
Oh lonesome valley, lonesome valley (x2)


Out here the ghost wears the feathered crown of blues
And the sickle moon to watch over all the lost horizon
All through the lonesome valley, the lonesome valley (x2)

Now I’m not worried about heading back
I will be punished by a civil death
If I’ve done enough but not my best

Bb F C
Bb F C
Bb F C
Bb F Dm Am G

I turn my pain into a simple plan
Harmony onward friend
Dragging myself out again
Oh through the lonesome valley, the lonesome valley (x2)

Now let the wolf judge me as I stand
Harmony onward friend
Until I see that old star again
High over the lonesome valley (x2)

Magnolia Electric Co - Talk To Me Devil

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Em.......G........D
Roll the moon over my heart

Em.......G.......D
Roll my heart out with the tide

Em.......G........D
I talked to the wolf in the mountain

Em....G.................D
And I talked to the mule in the mine


Devil unwind what’s empty
Devil unwind my heart
Devil make the two ends meet
Devil when I fall

D......................Em
Talk to me devil, again (x3)

Em.....G....D
Baby I still have time


Smell the lightning burning the starry sky
Rhododendron now under the moon
All hearts still in the tide
Devil if I fall hold out no water to me
Devil when I fall, hold out no hand

Devil unwind what’s empty
Devil unbind my heart
Devil make the two ends meet
Devil if I fall apart

Talk to me devil, again (x3)
Baby I still have time

Magnolia Electric Co - Memphis Moon

Capo III



Am.......................E..................................Am
Tea for two stars falling from the memphis sky

Dm...........................................................Am
Tea for two stars falling from the memphis sky

C...............................E
I know the night bird called you now

Am.....
Everything is fine

Dm...........................E
I know it’s soon to be fading out

......F...................C
But oh, didn’t we shine

.................G...........riff
Didn’t we shine



Some people say that the memphis blues ain’t bad
Some people say that the memphis blues ain’t bad
Put your little hand in mine darling
I know you’re fading fast
It weren’t the memphis blues you had
But baby you still shine



Goodbye my love, goodbye my love, goodbye
Turn your lamp down low my love, goodbye
I hear the whistle singing now to the lonesome pine
I know that we faded out
But oh, didn’t we shine
Didn’t we shine


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