Steve Earle - Taneytown (2) guitar chord
Artist: Steve Earle
Title: Taneytown
chords by: palamin0@
Steve Earle - Taneytown
Intro: Am7 - C - G - Am7 - G - Am7 - Em7
(chorus)
Am7 C G Am7
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
To see what I could see,
(verse 1)
Am7 C
My mama told me never go,
G Am7
I’m damned near twenty-two years old,
Am7
Some times I fear this,
G Am7 - Em7
Hollow swallowing me,
Am7 C
She went off to Gettysburg,
G Am7
Went off with that new boy of hers,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
I snuck off after dark,
Am7 C
It’s a long way down the County Road,
G Am7
The stars were bright and the moon was low,
Am7 G Am7 Am7
Down where the blacktop highway starts,
(chorus)
Am7 C G Am7
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
To see what I could see,
(verse 2)
Now everybody stared at me,
you’d think that they ain’t never seen,
A colored boy before.
Well, they jumped at me and they called me names,
they’d a whupped me sure, but the sheriff came,
I slipped off, ran through the dry goods store.
I ran down Division Street,
But some of them boys followed me,
Down to the railroad track.
There was four of them and I can’t fight,
But I got my old Randall knife,
I cut that boy and I never did look back.
(chorus)
Am7 C G Am7
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
To see what I could see,
(verse 3)
Across the fields & woods I run,
like a bullet from a rabbit gun,
Back home to my bed.
Now ma came back from Gettysburg,
her and that new beau of hers,
Boy you look like hell, was all she said.
A month went by without a word,
somebody down in the hollow heard,
About that boy they hung.
He begged those men to spare his life,
but I dropped my bloody Randall knife,
He picked it up, so they thought he was the one.
(chorus)
Am7 C G Am7
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
To see what I could see,
(chorus)
Am7 C G Am7
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
Am7 G - Am7 - Em7
To see what I could see,
