Andersen Eric

Andersen Eric - Thirsty Boots guitar chord

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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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