Tablature southland in the springtime - Indigo Girls

          



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  SOUTHLAND IN THE SPRINGTIME (Emily Saliers)

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  [Actually in A, so capo at the 2nd fret.]

  [Each chord is one measure, except chords joined by hyphens are one

   measure _total_.]

  

  G   F/G   C(9)   D      G   F/G   C(9)   D

  [intro]

  

  G                 F/G          C(9)    D

  Maybe we'll make Texas by the morning

             G               F/G               C(9)    D

  Light the bayou with our taillights in the night

         Em                 C               G  -  Gsus    G

  Eight hundred miles to El Paso from the state line

         F(9)           C               Am7   D7

  And we never have the money for the flight

  

  VERSE 2:

              G           F/G            C(9)  D

  I'm in the back seat sleepy from the travel

               G                   F/G              C(9)   D

  Played our hearts out all night long in New Orleans

       Em              C            G   -   Gs      C/G 

  I'm dirty from the diesel fuel, drinking coffee black

           G                Am7             D7sus   D7

  When the first breath of Texas comes in clean

  

  CHORUS:

              G                   G                   C       C

  And there's something about the southland in the springtime

            G                 B7             Em    C

  Where the waters flow with confidence and reason

           G                  Gsus/A        G/B          Gsus/C

  Though I miss her when I'm gone, it won't ever be too long

           Am7             G/B              C     D

  Till I'm home again to spend my favorite season

            Am7            G/B            C     D

  When god made me born a yankee he was teasing

               Em7                G/B          C             D

  There's no place like home and none more pleasing than the southland

               G    C/G    C    F/C - C    D    C    G - Gsus   G

  in the springtime

  

  In Georgia, nights are softer than a whisper

  Beneath a quilt somebody's mother made by hand

  With the farmland like a tapestry passed down through generations

  And the peach trees stitched across the land

  There'll be cider up near Helen off the roadside

  And warm peanuts in a bag to warm your fingers

  And the smoke from the chimneys meets its maker in the sky

  With a song that winter wrote whose melody lingers

  

  [Repeat chorus, end on last G.]

  

  

  

  INTRO TAB:

  

  

    G                F(9)/G           C                D

  E ----------------|----------------|----------------|------0=2---2-3-|

  B ----------0-----|--1-------1-----|--1-------1-----|--3-------3-----|

  G ------0-------0-|------0-------0-|----------------|----2-----------|

  D ----0-------0---|----3-------3---|----0=2-----0=2-|0---------------|

  A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|

  E 3---+---3---+---|3---+---3---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|

  

  

    G                F(9)/G           C                D

  E ----------------|----------------|----------------|------0=2-------|

  B ----------0-----|--1-------1-----|--1-------1-----|--3-------------|

  G ------0-------0-|------0-------0-|----------------|----2-----------|

  D ----0-------0---|----3-------3---|----0=2-----0=2-|0---------------|

  A ----------------|----------------|3-------3-------|----------------|

  E 3---+---3---+---|3---+---3---+---|+---+---+---+---|+---+---+---+---|

  

  

  

  - Adam Schneider, schneider@pobox.com

  

   


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 Southland in the springtime, de Indigo girls 

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