The Bluegrass Widow Chords by Robert Earl Keen

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_ It's been five years come this autumn she remembers well the day [F] the day the fever got him [C] took him [G] far away _ _ _ _
Far away, I'm always knowing that the love they shared was true [F] far away to fiddlers boy [C] the grass [Gm] forever blue
_ _ _ [G] _ _ It was in the dead of winter when a man first caught the chill [F] and it said he heard the angels singing
[C] cabin [G] on the hill _
_ _ _ Through the springtime he was grown in the good time fast gone [C] by the summer she was moaning
Love oh love, please [G] come home _ _ _
_ [C] Now stands out in the midnight [G] in the moonlight all aglow
[C] She prays to Carter Stanley [G] won't you please help Bill Monroe
[C] Whether be in some dark holler [G] or some dark deep shade grow [F] then to be a bluegrass widow
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Started listening to bluegrass music and
Brian Duckworth's rust red
1970 Ford Maverick _ had an eight-track tape deck and egg track tape of Bill Monroe's greatest hits
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[D] We used to skip second period chemistry and go over to the shamrock station across [G] the street from the high school _
Get a case of Texas pride beer _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Charge it on my dad's credit card and get him [D] to write it up as oil so dad never knew the [G] difference
_ _ _ _ _ Then we'd ride around and drink Texas pride _ _ _
_ _ Listen to Bill Monroe soon.
We got to be bluegrass
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And we'd stop in another shamrock station and get another Texas pride case
Drink that and listen to the Stanley brothers, and then we'd go get a tape of
Jim and Jesse and it was on to the Kentucky colonels and Mack Wiseman the new grass revival
Peter on and finally I got the brilliant idea one day to
Take all the [D] greatest bluegrass song titles in the world and string them together to make this song right here the bluegrass widow
_ _ _ _ Quite possibly the worst bluegrass song ever written. _ _
[G] I did this in tribute to the front porch boys
Which was a bluegrass band I was in in College Station, Texas _ _
_ _ We're a little four-piece band who played weddings and parties not on the porch and beer joints
One weekend on a handful of cheap
Amphetamines we decided to go to Crockett, Texas _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ We entered the international bluegrass band
competition and
took second [Gm] place _ _ _
_ _ We could [G] play faster than anybody in the competition
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_ _ [G] The other two bands took first and [D] third respectively
_ _ _ I met some friends and went off into the night separated from the four front porch boys and
_ _ _ Met back up with them in the cold gray light of dawn as the bluegrass [G] songs say they were standing underneath a giant [D] pine tree
They're Crockett [G] singing the rudest most grotesque nastiest bluegrass [D] songs you've ever heard in your life
_ _ _ _ _ I'm talking about the kind of song where not only is the character in the song dead by the end of the song
But he's been dismembered as well
_ _ _ And the front porch boys stopped and looked up at me just long enough to say we're taking bluegrass music where it's never been before _ _ _
_ And we're not taking you with us
_ _ Because you don't have that high and lonesome sound that bluegrass music requires _ _ _
Well, I'm not one to fight failure.
I packed up my stuff and then _
_ [G] The front porch boys broke up three days later
_ When they realized that I own the PA system _
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_ Will you miss me when I'm gone?
Where is fine words to her [C] darling think of what she's done then replied is not [G] still good _ _ _ _
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The leaves started turning when his mind began to fail [F] then it broke down in a [C] breakdown
Now she wears [G] long black
_ _ _ _ And [C] stands out in the midnight [G] in the moonlight all aglow
[C] She prays Carter Stanley [G] won't you please tell them and roll [C] rather be in some dark hollow
[G] Some dark deep shady grow [F] and to be a bluegrass [C] Oh
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_ _ _ _ And [C] stands out in the midnight [G] in the moonlight all aglow
_ [C] Sprays the Carter Stanley [G] won't you please tell them and roll [C] rather be in some dark hollow [G] or some dark deep shady grow
[F] Then to be a bluegrass widow
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