Original Artist - Town Blacksmith banjo guitar tab

Town Blacksmith

by: Verne Garrison-04-02-07Valley Park, Mo

Banjo adgbd (G tuning 5th spiked to A at 7th fret)

Medium speedKey D

Town Blacksmith

My (D) home town had a blacksmith named Henry (E) Bosler

He was the (A) one on whom all the farmers (D) depend

Mr Bosler would make their plow shares (E) sharper

So they (A) could go back and plow their fields (D) again

He (G) had a little shed on the far side of (D) town

Where they (E) would come and form a long (A) line

If the (D) didnt get there real (E) early

They would (A) lose a day of plowing (D) time

Some (D) of the big farmers got real (E) edgy

And (A) wanted to move up and get out of (D) line

But Henry would stare at them with his heavy (E) hammer

They would (A) grumble, but get back in (D) line

Henry (G) Bosler was the village (D) blacksmith

And the (E) only one for miles a-(A) round

At (D) times, he could be real inde-(E) pendent

Make him (A) self scarce, not to be (D) found (D7)

Everyone (G) finally knew he was (D) needed

And they (E) made a point to thank him every (A) day

Then (D) Henry came down with a (E) sickness

And they (A) used a black wagon to haul him (D) away

Now (D) the town is very (E) sorry

That (A) they had treated him that (D) way

They took up a big (E) collection

And sent (A) it to his sister far, far (D) away

I (D) know the town did not (E) prosper

Without (A) Mr. Bosler there every (D) day

Some say it was his way of gettin (E) even

And that (A) he and his sister are spending that collection (D) today.