Tablature levelland - Robert Earl Keen

          



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  From: Andrew Lyon <Andrew@lyonap.force9.co.uk>

  Date: Sunday, May 31, 1998 6:07 AM

  Subject: "Levelland" by Robert Earl Keen

  

  

  Levelland

  Written by: James McMurtry

  CD: Robert Earl Keen - Picnic

  From: Andrew@lyonap.force9.co.uk

  

  Intro: E A E C#m A

  

  E

  Flatter than a tabletop

  A

  Makes you wonder why they stopped here

  E               C#m                  A

  Wagon must have lost a wheel or they lacked ambition one

  E

  On the great migration west

  A

  Separated from the rest

  E                      C#m

  Though they might have tried their best

       A

  They never caught the sun

  

          B

  So they sunk some roots down in the dirt

     A

  To keep from blowin' off the earth

  B

  Built a town around here

               A                B

  And when the dust had all but cleared

                 E              A              B

  They called it Levelland, the pride of man

     E           A    B

  In Levelland

  

  E

  Granddad grew the dryland wheat

  A

  Stood on his own two feet

  E            C#m                 A

  His mind got incomplete and they put in the home

  E

  Daddy's cotton grows so high

  A

  Sucks the water table dry

  E                  C#m

  Rolling sprinklers circle round

  A

  Bleedin' it to the bone

        B

  And I won't be here when it comes a day

     A

  It all dries up and blows away

      B

  I'd hang around just to see

           A              B             E

  But they never had much use for me in Levelland

             A          B         E          A     B

  They don't understand me out in Levelland

  

        A                      C#m             B             E

  And I watch those jet trails carving up that big blue sky

  A        C#m                     B

  Coast to coasters watch 'em go

        A                     C#m

  And I never would blame 'em one damn bit

          B                    E

  If they never looked down on this

  A        C#m               B

  Not much here they'd wanna know

       E

  Just Levelland

                 A                 B

  Far as you can point your hand

              E          A   B

  Nothin' but Levelland

  

  (Solo)  A C#m B E A C#m B A C#m B E A C#m B

  

  E

  Mama used to roll her hair

  A

  Back before the central air

  E           C#m                A

  We'd sit outside and watch the stars at night

  E

  She'd tell me to make a wish

  A

  I'd wish we both could fly

  E                 C#m

  Don't think she's seen the sky

  A

  Since we got the satellite dish and

  E

  I can hear the marching band

  A

  Doin' the best they can

                   E            C#m      A

  They're playing "Smoke on the Water", "Joy to the World"

  E

  I've paid off all my debts

  A

  Got some change left over yet and I'm

  E            C#m

  Gettin' on a whisper jet

            A                   B

  I'm gonna fly as far as I can get from

  E                    A            B

  Levelland, doin' the best I can

         E                   A      B

  Out in Levelland - imagine that

  

  {E    A  B}x4

  

  C#m A B E 


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 Levelland, de Robert earl keen 

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