Slaid Cleaves - New Years Day guitar chord

New Year's Day

By Slaid Cleaves

CD – Wishbones 2004

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

6/10/04

D G D

You might think there's nothing left but ashes

D G D

In a box on a table at Crosby's Bar

G A D D/C# Bm

But there's more than meets the eye, you didn't leave us when you died

G A

Your spirit will live on in what we do and who we are

Aunt Betty's gonna tell us stories 'bout the family

Daughter Susan is gonna sing your favorite song

Cousin Perry will spend the day tellin' tales of the blue and gray

And the Cajun will keep pickin' all night long

We'll be putting down the brisket and tequila

Down in Kerrville with the Seekers of the Shade

'Cause a piece of you lives on, not only in this song

But in all the lives you touched and every friendship that you made

Chorus 1:

G A D

We're gonna go up to Maine and eat some clams and lobsters

G A D

Bite the worm down in sunny Cancun bay

G A D D/C# Bm

We'll be home by Christmas Eve tellin' tales you won't believe

G A D

And we'll swim in Barton Springs on New Year's Day

Well Greg's gonna walk the aisles up at Carlisle

Bringing smiles just like you used to do

Uncle Dave's got a whiskey toast, I'll be driving from coast to coast

And your smilin' face will live on in the heart of widow Sue

We're gonna jump across the mighty Mississippi

Way up north where it's just a little stream

Brother Bill's gonna keep an eye on the kin you left behind

For you taught us how to live and you showed us how to dream

Chorus 1

Chorus 2:

Yeah, we're gonna go up to Maine and suck on the heads of lobsters

Like a Cajun gone home to Frenchman Bay

We'll be home by Christmas Eve tellin' tales you won't believe

And we'll swim in Barton Springs on New Year's Day