Forums » Gillian Welch and David Rawlings "Guitar Tabs"

• JasonK

  

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  September 24, 2015 3:47 AM PDT

  The Trip - Dave Rawlings Machine

  Gill will probably capo 5 and play D G A

   

  G16   C4   G4   D4    G4

   

  G Whistles blow and people get on C trains

  Without knowing G where they’re going

  G Someone’s daughter, C someone’s sister

  Someone’s teacher G going down the road

  C The body, a handkerchief, G and a hatchet

  From an unspeakable crime D

  But there’s no-one waiting for them

  There’s no judgment G down the line

   

  G Banjos ring and C chickens squall

  And G little babies crow

  G And the winter leaves and C the spring unwinds

  And G summer comes again, you know

  C Pink is the color of my true love’s dress

  And black G is the color of her heart

  D But I could never leave old Virginny

  And C so it never G parts

   

  G Ebony face, ebony C nails

  Ebony coffin G on the rails

  Moving south, C.O.CD., going G home to mother

  C Some said for valor, for glory, for G treasure, for pride

  D And sometimes brother hates brother G

   

  Chorus

  So C take a trip wherever your G conscience has to roam

  It’s D much too hard to try to live a C lie at G home

   

  G My boots are cracked with the C road dirt

  And asphalt, G spit and broken dreams

  Chewing gum and safety C pins

  Are what G hold me in at the seams

  D My pegs are loose,

  My screws too tightly G wound to get in tune

  But D I still try sometimes on those

  Golden C summer afterGnoons

   

  Chorus + Instrumental Verse

   

  G There’s a picture of an old black C man G in a beaver hat

  He wears a hidden C smile and a G pair of white spats

  C Don’t pretend you didn’t G notice his stare

  You’re D edgy and sweating and C loaded for G bear

   

  G The skeletons dance tonight

  C They’re in your G bottle and your boots

  And your mandolin that C Bianca AleGtorre tried to shoot

  C Ah and what’s a bullet hole or G two between friends

  And D who can say when the well goes dry

  Or C where the story G ends

   

  Chorus + Instrumental Verse

   

  G Hotel lies and C hotel whys

  That G come and go with the sheets

  Ah, but what’s a marriage

  C If it can’t be G held up to kitchen heat

  C Once I knew each valley of that G beautiful shore

  But D I don’t go to the summer fair C much anyGmore

   

  Chorus

   

  G Your harmonica’s blown C baby G throw it away

  Your denim shirt is C ragged and your G dirty collar’s frayed

  C I tried to play my horn for you

  But I G couldn’t seem to find a note

  So I D picked up pen and paper and C this is what I G wrote

   

  Chorus

  Go C take a trip wherever your G conscience has to roam

  It’s D much too hard to try to live a C lie at G home

  D   C   G (x8) G

  
  This post was edited by JasonK at October 16, 2015 1:42 AM PDT