Tablature thirsty boots - Eric Andersen

          



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  From alt.guitar.tab Fri Jul 29 11:35:04 1994

  From: cimo@cs.montana.edu (Bob Cimikowski)

  Date: 27 Jul 1994 20:50:22 GMT

  Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab

  Subject: "Thirsty Boots" (Eric Andersen)

  

  Here's an old classic by Eric Andersen.  Better listen to the recording to

  get a feel for it first.  A harmonica would also help.

  

  

  

                                 THIRSTY BOOTS

  

                                (Eric Andersen)

  

  

  Guitar: standard tuning, capo IV

  

  Intro:  G G(F#) C G C G D D(G) D D(E)

  

  Notes:  use Travis picking style, playing individual notes

          in parentheses along with chords on either first

          or sixth string.  The D(F#) chord is the usual D

          major chord with an F# added on the sixth string;

          likewise for G(F#).

  

  

         G         G(F#)  C    G

  You've long been on the open road,

              C               G  D(F#)

  You've been sleeping in the rain,

       G     G(F#)     C     G

  From dirty words and muddy cells

       C           G           D(F#)

  Your clothes are smeared and stained,

          G     G(F#)     C     G

  But the dirty words and muddy cells

       C       G      D(F#)

  Will soon be hid in shame

     G            C    G

  So only stop to rest yourself

       Am      Am(G) D(F#) D(G) D(E)

  Till you are off again

  

  Chorus:

  

        G             C      

     So take off your thirsty boots

         G          C

     and stay for a while,

          G                G(F#) Em

     Your feet are hot and weary,

     Am  Am(G)    D(F#)

     from a dusty mile,

         G           C  

     And maybe I can make you laugh,

     G           C

     maybe I can try,

              G               G(F#)

     I'm just looking for the evening,

        Am Am(G) D(F#)   G C D7 G C D7

     the morning in your eye.

  

  So tell me of the ones you saw

  As far as you could see

  Across the plain from field to town

  A-marching to be free

  And of the rusted prison gates

  That tumbled by degree

  Like laughing children, one by one,

  They look like you and me

  

  Chorus.

  

  (Harmonica interlude).

  

  I know you are no stranger down

  The crooked rainbow trails

  From dancing cliff-edged shattered sills

  Of slandered, shackled jails

  For the voices drift up from below

  As the walls they're being scaled

  Yes, all of this, and more, my friend,

  Your song shall not be failed.

  

  Chorus.

  

  Yes, you've long been on the open road

  You've been sleeping in the rain

  From dirty words and muddy cells

  Your clothes are smeared and stained

  But the dirty words, the muddy cells,

  They'll soon be judged insane

  So only stop to rest yourself

  'til you are off again.

  

  Chorus.

  

  

   


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 Thirsty boots, de Eric andersen 

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