Nanci Griffith - Boots Of Spanish Leather guitar chord

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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