Lovett Lyle - Walk Through The Bottomland guitar tab

Walk Throught the Bottomland - Lyle Lovett

C F G C

A New Jersey lady I knew long ago

F Em G7

And she was a lady I say

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But she met a cowboy who rode on a rodeo

F G C

And he stole her heart straight away

C F G C

The New Jersey lady she loved him so true

F Em G7

Another love she never had

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But cowboys are lonesome and cowboys are blue

F G C

And they make the ladies so sad

F C

Chorus: Sing me a melody

F C

Sing me a blues

F C G C

Walk through the bottomland without no shoes

F C

The Brazos she's running scared

F C

She heard the news

F C G C

Walk through the bottomland without no shoes

C F G C

The New Jersey lady knew he loved her too

F Em G7

And you know she tried to hold on

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But the rodeo life was the life that he knew

F G C

He had to keep drifting along

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She never married and she never would

F Em G7

And all of the people they'd say

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The New Jersey lady she just ain't no good

F G C

To follow a cowboy that way

Chorus

F C G C

The lady she'd sing him to sleep in the night

F Em G

And in the morning he'd go

F C G C

She loved the darkness and hated the light

D G

Along with that damn rodeo

C F G C

The New Jersey lady the day that he died

F Em G7

She covered him over with clay

C F G C

And feeling the wind in the night as she cried

F G C

She heard the old cowboy say

Chorus