Tablature boots of spanish leather - Nanci Griffith

          



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  From: schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu (Adam Schneider)

  

  BOOTS OF SPANISH LEATHER (Bob Dylan)

  [This is Nanci Griffith's version.]

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  [Actually in A; capo 2.  Each chord is one measure, except two chords

   joined by hyphens (e.g., "G - G/F#") are one measure _total_.]

  [See bottom of file for chord fingerings and picking pattern.]

  

  D11  D11  D11  D11    G    C    D/F#    G - C/G    G - G/F#

  [intro]

  

         Em(9)     Em(9)  C - C(9)  G     C   G    G - G/F#

  Oh I'm sailing away, my own true love

      Em      D/F#        G       C    G    G - G/F#

  I'm sailing away in the morning

           Em(9)           Em(9)          C - C(9)   G   C   G   G - G/F#

  Is there something I can send you from across the sea

           Em          D/F#    G       C    D/F#    G - C/G   G - G/F#

  >From the place where I'll be landing

  

  There's nothing you can send me, my own true love

  There's nothing I'm wishing to be owning

  Just carry yourself back to me unspoiled

  >From across that lonesome ocean

  

  Oh, but I just thought you might want something fine

  Maybe silver or of golden

  Either from the mountains of Madrid

  Or from the coast of Barcelona

  

  If I had the stars of the darkest night

  And the diamonds from the deepest ocean

  I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss

  That's all I wish to be owning

  

  Oh, I might be gone a long ol' time

  And it's only that I'm asking

  Is there something I can send you to remember me by

  To make your time more easy passing

  

  How can, how can you ask me again

  Well it only brings me sorrow

  Oh, the same thing I would want today

  I would want again tomorrow

  

  [instrumental, same chords as intro]

  

  Oh, I got a letter on a lonesome day

  It was from his ship a-sailing

  Saying, I don't know when I'll be coming back again

  It depends on how I'm feeling

  

  If you, my love, must think thataway

  I'm sure your mind is a-roaming

  I'm sure your thoughts are not with me

  But with the country where you're going

  

  So take heed, take heed of the western wind

  Take heed of stormy weather

  And yes, there is something you can send back to me

  Spanish boots of Spanish leather [end on last G.]

  

  

  CHORDS:

  

  G: 3x000x      D/F#: 2x023x   Em: 0x200x      C: x3201x      C/G: 3x201x

  G/F#: 2x000x   D11: x54030    Em(9): 0x400x   C(9): x3001x

  

  The picking pattern is a basic alternating-bass thing:

  

  E |----------------|      E |----------------|

  B |--*-------*-----|      B |--*-------*-----|

  G |------*-------*-|  or  G |------*-------*-|

  D |----*-------*---|      D |----*-------*---|

  A |----------------|      A |*-------*-------|

  E |*-------*-------|      E |----------------|

  

  [The bass notes (D and E strings, always played by the thumb) in the pattern

   are the most important; the other notes get left out from time to time.]

  

  

  

  - Adam Schneider, schn0170@maroon.tc.umn.edu

  

  

   


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