Slaid Cleaves - Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues guitar chord

Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues

By Slaid Cleaves

CD – Wishbones 2004

Tabbed By Larry Mofle

rmofle@satx.rr.com

6/11/04

Capo 2

D C G D

Tiger Tom Dixon had a gift from God

D C G D

He could hit you quick, he could hit you hard

D C G D

In a world where a man's hands are put to the test

D C G D

Tiger Tom Dixon's hands were the best

Chorus:

G A

Men came from Boston, from Ohio

G A

Corners of counties that you'll never know

G A

From barrooms and poolhalls with nothing to show

G A D C G D

Except for the fists that they did throw at Tiger Tom Dixon

D C G D

Tiger Tom Dixon

He'd step into the ring, gloves tied on tight

After humbling a man Tom would tie one on in spite

Kick back into a whiskey like it was an easy chair

Drink to anything that the devil may care

Now Tom held the future in his right fist

But there was no good time Tom Dixon could resist

No neon in New England he hadn't passed out under

No white lightning that hadn't felt his thunder

Chorus

Tougher than leather and quick as a cat

Till a young man one day is no longer that

And the dreams of those around him sink to the quick

When he slows just enough for them to figure the trick

Come a day in December the steely winds did blow

Into the ring a man Tom Dixon did know

It was himself without the bottle, and the dream held fast

He took Tom's dream with him and he never looked back

Tom rolled around that bottle for a couple of years

Till he was put in the ground by his own fears

Now all that is left is the story I have told

And the dream that still waits to unfold for Tiger Tom Dixon

Chorus