From 38ccd2a40698e419631f4c912e9af35ad7b678d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Amolith Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2024 11:13:17 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add two songs --- Guitar/John Prine/Paradise.cho | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Guitar/Live Oak.cho | 66 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 133 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Guitar/John Prine/Paradise.cho create mode 100644 Guitar/Live Oak.cho diff --git a/Guitar/John Prine/Paradise.cho b/Guitar/John Prine/Paradise.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9141466 --- /dev/null +++ b/Guitar/John Prine/Paradise.cho @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +{title: Paradise} +{artist: John Prine} +{capo: 5} +{time: 3/4} + +{start_of_verse} +When [C]I was a child my [F]family would [C]travel +Down to [C]Western Kentucky where my [G]parents were [C]born +And there's a [C]backwards old town that's [F]often re[C]membered +[C]So many times that the [G]memories are [C]worn +{end_of_verse} + +{soc} +So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County +Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay +Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking +Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way +{eoc} + +{start_of_verse} +[C]Sometimes we'd travel right [F]down the Green [C]River +To the [C]abandoned old prison u[G]pon Adrie [C]Hill +Where the [C]air smelled like snakes and we'd [F]shoot with our [C]pistols +But [C]empty pop bottles was [G]all that we'd [C]kill +{end_of_verse} + +{soc} +So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County +Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay +Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking +Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way +{eoc} + +{start_of_grid} +|| C . . | C . . | F . . | C . . | +| C . . | C . . | G . . | C . . | +| C . . | C . . | F . . | C . . | +| C . . | C . . | G . . | C . . || +{end_of_grid} + +{start_of_verse} +Then the [C]coal comp'ny came with the [F]world's largest [C]shovel +They [C]tortured the timber, they [G]stripped all the [C]land +Well, they [C]cut it all down lookin' [F]for that [C]coal +An' they [C]wrote it all down as the [G]progress of [C]man +{end_of_verse} + +{soc} +So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County +Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay +Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking +Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way +{eoc} + +{start_of_verse} +When I [C]die let my ashes float [F]down the Green [C]River +Let 'em [C]roll on up to the [G]Rochester [C]Dam +I'll be [C]halfway to heaven with [F]Paradise [C]waitin' +Just [C]five miles away from wher[G]ever I [C]am +{end_of_verse} + +{soc} +So [C]Daddy won't you take me back to [F]Muhlenberg [C]County +Down [C]by the Green River where [G]Paradise [C]lay +Well, I'm [C]sorry my son, but you're [F]too late in [C]asking +Mister [C]Peabody's coal train done [G]hauled it a[C]way +{eoc} diff --git a/Guitar/Live Oak.cho b/Guitar/Live Oak.cho new file mode 100644 index 0000000..479dbad --- /dev/null +++ b/Guitar/Live Oak.cho @@ -0,0 +1,66 @@ +{title: Live Oak} +{composer: Jason Isbell} +{capo: 4} +{time: 4/4} + +{comment: No capo} + +{start_of_chorus} +[N.C.]There's a man who walks beside me he is who I used to be, +[N.C.]and I wonder if she sees him and confuses him with me +[N.C.]And I wonder who she's pining for on nights I'm not around +Could it [Dm]be the man who [Am7]did the things I'm [Fmaj7]living down +{end_of_chorus} + +{start_of_verse} +I was [Am]rougher than the timber [C/B]shipping [C]out of Fond du Lac +When I [Dm]headed south at [Am7]seventeen, the [Fmaj7]sheriff on my back +I'd [Am]never held a lover [C/B]in my [C]arms or in my gaze, +So I [Dm]found another [Am7]victim every [Fmaj7]couple days +{end_of_verse} + +{start_of_verse} +But the [Am]night I fell in love with [C/B]her, I [C]made my weakness known +To the [Dm]fighters and the [Am7]farmers digging [Fmaj7]dusty fields alone +The [Am]jealous innuendos of the [C/B]lonely-hearted [C]men +Let me [Dm]know what kind of [Am7]country I was [Fmaj7]sleeping in +{end_of_verse} + +{start_of_verse} +Well you [Am]couldn't stay a loner [C/B]on the [C]plains before the war +When my [Dm]neighbors took to [Am7]slightin' me, I [Fmaj7]had to ask what for +[Am]Rumors of my wicked[C/B]ness had [C]reached our little town +Soon she'd [Dm]heard about the [Am7]boys I used to [Fmaj7]hang around +{end_of_verse} + +{start_of_verse} +We'd [Am]robbed a great-lakes freighter, [C/B]killed a [C]couple men aboard +When I [Dm]told her, her eyes [Am7]flickered like the [Fmaj7]sharp steel of a sword +All the [Am]things that she'd suspected, [C/B]I'd [C]expected her to fear + Dm Am7 Fmaj7 +Was the [Dm]truth that drew her [Am7]to me when I [Fmaj7]landed here +{end_of_verse} + +{start_of_chorus} +There's a [Am]man who walks beside me [C/B]he is [C]who I used to be, +And I [Dm]wonder if she [Am7]sees him and [Fmaj7]confuses him with me +And I [Am]wonder who she's pining for [C/B]on [C]nights I'm not around +Could it [Dm]be the man who [Am7]did the things I'm [Fmaj7]living down +{end_of_chorus} + +{start_of_grid} +|| Am . . C/B | C . . . | +| Dm . Am7 . | Fmaj7 . . . | +| Am . . C/B | C . . . | +| Dm . Am7 . | Fmaj7 . . . || +{end_of_grid} + +{start_of_verse} +Well I [Am]carved her cross from live oak and [C/B]her [C]box from short-leaf pine, +And [Dm]buried her so [Am7]deep, she'd touch the [Fmaj7]water table line +And [Am]picked up what I needed and [C/B]I [C]headed south again +To my[Dm]self, I wondered, "[Am7]Would I ever [Fmaj7]find another friend" +{end_of_verse} + +There's a [Am]man who walks beside her, [C/B]he is [C]who I used to be, +And I [Dm]wonder if she [Am7]sees him and [Fmaj7]confuses him with me