Drag the River - Amazing G.

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Well she paid with silver dollars

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and she danced from bar to bar

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Then she parked her rusty trailer

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down in the holler

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Well she once believed in Jesus

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but she never believed in love

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now she worships at the alter of alcohol

She wont falter when you dare her
to get up, dance on the bar
she'll just strip down except highheels
and strut around
She's got a way of giving thanks
make sure you'll never forget her name
Before you pass out you'll say a prayer about Amazing Grace

She never dreamed of finding true love
She never dreamed that day was near
Until she stumbled into the mens room
and found me there
Well now I treat her just like a wonder
I hold her hair back when she throws up
But I still find her down in the gutter
Drinking with the bums

She's out looking for her lover
She will never have to wonder
cuz she'll never spend another night alone

The Star Room Boys - Gastonia

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I can't believe I ever woke up

G......................D
without her here before

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all I know is that I can't do that right

G................D
alone anymore


D
another late night has become

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a day I never hoped I'd see

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and I don't know what she's thinking

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but it's surely not of me


D
she was alone the night I met her

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alone deep in her eyes

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now she's heading for her hometown

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with the trucks on eighty five

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as clear shiny crystal

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the hardest kind of blue

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I'll take a pass on the smoke and the gas

A...............................D
I'm bound to get there too


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oh my love I've got to find

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over backroad twenty nine

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Gastonia she came from

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back there she's gone I pray

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but if she don't want to be found

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in that little redneck town

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I'll be crying to her momma

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when the sun goes down today


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Gastonia wants to forget her

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Gastonia I never will

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Carolina how I love

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your rolling waters by the sea

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but that inland town drags me down

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and roves right over me


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I followed behind her

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is she up there at all

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Lord please help me make the border

G....................D
before I hit the wall

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and the flowers that I bought her

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lay beside me getting dry

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I'll be chasing her forever

....G....................D
I'll never find out why

oh my love I've got to find
over backroad twenty nine
Gastonia she came from
back there she's gone I pray
but if she don't want to be found
in that little redneck town
I'll be crying to her momma
when the sun goes down today
I'll be crying to her momma
when the sun goes down
down today

Jason Isbell - Sunstroke

Capo II


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Em.......................................G
they tell me you walk on the water now

Em............................................G
but I know who showed you the stones

Em................................G
pray that I manage my appetite

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lie there alone

I hope that you practiced your instrument
I fear it will take you away
you ain't you the type to be traveling
so why not just stay


Am.........................G
here it is morning for some folks

Am...........................G
twilight for those of us left

Am..................................G
sleep while the soldiers get sunstroke

F.............................Em
make little fools of ourselves
make little fools of ourselves

are we supposed to get good at this
what does it mean to give up
why did I call you
I shouldn't be giving a fuck

answer these questions for everyone
so maybe they'll stop asking me
what really happened
where is your masterpiece

here it is morning for some folks
twilight for those of us left
give up the dangers of sunstroke
make little fools of ourselves
make little fools of ourselves

tell me you walk on the water now
tell me you walk on the water now
tell me you walk on the water now
I know I showed you the stones

tell me you walk on the water now
tell me you walk on the water now
tell me you walk on the water now
I know you go here alone

here it is morning for some folks
twilight for those of us left
sleep while the soldiers get sunstroke
make little fools of ourselves
oh we make little fools of ourselves

I need some thing to look forward to
maybe these colors will fade
I never meant to get bored with you
but I never meant to stay

Doug Burr - Graniteville

Capo III


G
just a boxcar flower used to follow your daddy

Em
another freighter in from Cincinnati

C
you were always watching

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watching the train roll by

yeah you know baby everything he carried
another red eye: Mobile, Albany
you were always watching
watching the train roll by


G
so tell me what's going on in Graniteville

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catch a whole town underneath the sleeping pill

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it's a quiet little city grew up together

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with your picture looking out your grandmother's window

it's a black train running through the middle of the night
finds us here well there's nowhere to hide
if you ever wake up here in Graniteville
ah you know how much I love you and I always will

trying so hard to just get away
some people wanna die in a quiet place
everybody's always watching
watching the trains roll by

yeah if you have a place to go and it's never enough
well hard paying toll and the train's in a rush
that town's always waiting
waiting girl to get back

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yeah but every town's small when it comes to you

......Em
like everyone's asleep when it's passing through

C................................................................G
tonight I heard the screaming of a million tongues

so wake up pretty baby turn the light on
tonight there's something different something gone wrong
we've been sleeping too long
so long

so tell me what's going on in Graniteville
catch a whole town underneath the sleeping pill
it's a quiet little city grew up together
with your picture looking out your grandmother's window

it's a black train running through the middle of the night
finds us here well there's nowhere to hide
if you ever wake up here in Graniteville
ah you know how much I love you and I always will

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wake up baby

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there's a train a coming

Am
don't you leave me

C
or forsake me

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
don't you know how
much I love you

wake up baby
and hear the screeching
there's a whole town drifting
off to dreaming

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
winter leaving
spring has sprung and

wake up baby
hear the screaming
the whole town dies while
it's still sleeping

wake up baby
there's a train a coming
don't forget you
know I love you

Justin Townes Earle - Black Eyed Suzy

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Black Eyed Suzy

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she works the corner

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out on the block on which she was raised

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and I don't how but she

Em
finds some comfort

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up amongst the rubble

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and the Queen Ann's Lace

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but nobody seemed to notice

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her beauty wither away

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oh Black Eyed Suzy girl

D..................................G
how much more can you take

we were lovers back when we were younger but
we all know how that can go
it's like one day it's roses and the next it's over and
nobody asks cause ain't nobody wants to know
as soon as find a place far away
from these dirty heat
oh Black Eyed Suzy she's still losing ground to the heat


C
well now some make it into the wind

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they'll take a fly just to forget the pain

C
ah but Suzy she's dug in too deep

C
she knows she's been beat

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but still she stands around and waits

D
ah but

as soon as the seasons change
it will bring the winter wind
Suzy she'll try to fight it
it won't be long
before the cold and rain
and the long November will decide it
what am I to do
ah what am I to say
I just walked from a distance as Suzy withers away

Neko Case - People Got a Lotta Nerve

Capo I


C...........................Am
So the saying says

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An elephant never forgets

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Standing in the concrete cave

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Swaying side and sing

C
They walked over the ocean

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And their dreams they dreamed awake

C
Until the lights grew dim

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Until the cop cars came

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Everybody tells me this is crazy, yes I know

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But I'm a man man man

Am.........................F.........Dm
man man man man eater

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But still you're surprised prised prised

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when I eat ya

You know they call them killer whales
But you seem suprised
When it pinned you down to the bottom of the tank
Where you can't turn around
It took half your leg and both your lungs
And I craved I ate hearts of sharks, I know you know it

I'm a man man man man, man man man eater
But still you're surprised prised prised when I eat ya

I'm a man man man man, man man man eater
But still you're surprised prised prised when I eat ya

C.........................................F*.....Fmaj7
It will end again in moonlit song
It will end again in moonlit song


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Frontier Folk Nebraska - Restless Heart

Capo IV


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G................G/F#........Em
Watching the bluebirds fly

C...............................G
keep telling myself it's alright

G...........G/F#...........Em
wishing for my love to come

C.....................................G
as I watch those bluebirds fly

voice in my head never ends
the only fun results through misery
patient it remains in the past
as the wars they never end

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and I wait out these days

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with a restless heart

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with a restless heart

listen to the wind sing songs
stars they shine so bright
lay awake at night
as I hear those lovely songs

and I wait out these days
with a restless heart

Deep Dark Woods - Now Can I Try

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


G..........D..A.....D
how can I even try

G.............................D..A..........D......................G..........D
when I'm twenty five hundred miles from my home

...A.......D...G........D
I feel so all alone

...A.......D...G........D
I feel so all alone

sixty five years till I am gone
but I can't wait that long
no I can't wait that long
no I can't wait that long

I'm going back to where I was born
so I don't feel so torn
back to where I was born
so I don't feel so torn
back to where I was born

so I don't feel so torn
back to where I was born
so I don't feel so torn
back to where I was born

Jeffrey Foucault - Ghost Repeater

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All of the drunks

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Dressed up like Santa Claus

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Ring Salvation Army bells

D

But the town square is quiet

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The juke joints are empty

D

Everyone’s buying

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What no one can sell

Bm

And the girl I loved once

G

Came to me last night

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In a dream with a secret to tell

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She whispered close

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Can’t you hear the ocean?

D

As she leaned her ear

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Against a shotgun shell

G
Dark was the night

G

Cold was the ground

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I could barely make out the song

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Of the Ghost Repeaters

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Singing Hallelujah

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His truth is marching on

Willie Mae’s crying
At the toll booth to heaven
With a bottle of gin
And a gold-toothed smile
Where the dreams pile up
All washed out and broken
As thick as the stars
On the Miracle Mile

But the movie is over
The theater is empty
The credits are starting to roll
The wages of sin
Don't adjust for inflation
It’s a buyer’s market
When you sell your soul

Dark was the night
Cold was the ground
I could barely make out the song
Of the Ghost Repeaters
Singing Hallelujah
His truth is marching on

The plaza is dark
The picadors are dreaming
Of blood in the alleys
And rust on the vines
They sandbag the bulls
And prop up the matadors
It’s a sweetheart contract
They’re taking their time

And all the ghost prisoners
Who aren't in the ghost prisons
Don’t weep at the sound
Of your name
They just stare up at the clouds
Of passenger pigeons
Winging back home
To the cities of the plain

Dark was the night
Cold was the ground
I could barely make out the song
Of the Ghost Repeaters
Singing Hallelujah
His truth is marching on

The star up above
The 5th Avenue Christmas tree
Is shining tonight
Through the cold and the rain
To light all the faces
In the live nativity
Down on the floor
Of the stock exchange

Dark is the night
Cold is the ground
The armies march out to defend
And the Ghost Repeaters
Of the revelators
Are singing "Peace on Earth
And Good Will to all Men"

Cary Hudson - Song in C

C
on a gravel road twenty miles from town

C
live the writer Larry Brown

C..............C7...............F
up into the hills feeling free

Fm...........................................C
red hawk circles high above the trees

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riding on the breeze

talking about a Montana job
who killed Pizza Bob
stopping at the store for more beer and ice
got cigarettes and pizza by the slice
and fuzzy dice

Profit Ridge we made our way
across the county for half a day
and back to Taylor as the sun was sinking low
people on their front porch waving low
take it slow

in front of the old country store in Taylor
a bluegrass band on a flatbed trailer
is laying it down with a sound so bittersweet
I don't know if I should cry or tap my feet
or dance in the street

Jimmy D and Nicky sitting on a bench
surrounded by many a lovely wench
telling a joke, sharing a toke on the slide
I can smell the catfish being fried
hush puppies on the side

Vick laying his widdle on a stick
he moves slow but his wits are quick
takes a sip of whiskey and sighs
says "boys this is paradise"
you know he never lies

band was playing fast and high
the girls were shaking everything they got
hound dogs are howling at the moon
then the singer called out for one last tune
much too soon

so it's time to say goodbye
my oh my how the time does fly
one more round then I'm bound to go
down Campground Cemetery Road
back to my abode

fare you well my good ole friend
until we meet again
I know we will some sunny day
then we'll take out guitars out and play
our blues away