Big Country Blues Chords by Townes Van Zandt

[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Well I've been up the [Am] Mississippi [Em] to the [A] [Em] Manitoba line
I've been down [Am] stream to the Gulf of [Em] Mexico
_ Followed _ [Am] the sun out of West California
_ And _ _ _ _ [Bm] there just ain't no [Am] place left for me [Em] to go
Spent _ _ _ _ a lonesome [Am] month in Maine [Em] and a year in Louisiana _ _ _
Packed my bags [Am] and hit the [Em] westward trail _
[Am] Rambled down through Texas till I came to El Paso
Spent _ [Bm] _ a week in [Am] a stinking [Em] war-aged jail
_ Well _ _ _ _ _ _ I rambled through [Am]
Nevada gambling [Em] most of [A] my [Em] life away
I headed north [Am] when I heard Dakota [Em] call
_ [Am] Well I stayed until the northerners came rolling down the line
I _ _ [Bm] [B] headed [Am] south when summer [Em] turned to fall
I've _ _ _ been north and [Am] east, [Em] [A] south where the [Em] cotton grows
And out in the west where the [Am] sun forever [Em] shines
Well [Am] I've been my back for a dollar a day in a Texas sugar field
_ _ _ [Bm] Labored [Am] in a Minnesota [Em] _ mine
Well _ _ _ _ _ _ I've seen you [Am] hungry babies [Em] scream, I've [A] watched their [Em] mamas cry
I've seen a worn out [Am] prostitute beg [Em] for a dime
_ [Am] I've seen men come out of gutters ready to give their lives away _
For [Bm] a slug and [Am] a lousy bottle of [Em] rot gut wine
_ _ I've _ _ _ _ _ _ _ been up the [Am]
Mississippi [Em] and the [A] [Em] Manitoba line
_ Down stream to the [Am] Gulf of [Em] Mexico
_ _ _ [Am] _
Followed the sun out west to California
And _ [B] there just ain't no [Am] place left [Em] for me to go
Well _ _ _ _ [B] there just ain't no [Am] place left [Em] for me to go _ _ _
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