Chords for Townes Van Zandt - Snake Mountain Blues

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Well, Mr.
Ten-Dollar Man, let me [A] tell you where you're [Em] bound.
_ [Am] Drink your green liquor, Lord, and you can roll [E] to the ground.
_ _ Don't you come around here with your money in your hand.
[Em] _ [Am] Taste of my woman, _ _ [A] _ or you [Em] die where you stand. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ The snake man blues, man, it got me down low.
[Am] I could die in the morning, ain't no one would [E] know.
_ _ [Em] A woman come around, my body shit fine.
_ [Am] Go down to Dundee, _ [Em] _ and every time, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ snake man's gonna crumble, [Am] Lord,
and fall [E] from the sky.
But that woman of mine stops [Em] telling her lies.
[E] _ I'd die, Lord, she'd weep, she'd weep and she'd moan.
[Am] Soon as I was buried, _ [E] _ _ [Em] forget I'd been born.
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_ _ Love of black skin, woman, she won't [E] do you no [Em] wrong.
_ [Am] Slow to start moaning, she don't moan [Em] for long.
_ Well, a yellow-headed woman bring you nothing [Em] but pain.
[Am] _ Takes all you give her, _ _ _ [A] _ leaves only [Em] shame. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ My daddy, Lord, he rides on a long, holy train.
_ [Am] First winds of winter, I see him again.
_ _ This farewell to this [E] yellow-headed mystery I've [Em] known.
_ _ [Am] Snake man's calling, _ _ Lord, calling me home.
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_ The snake man blues, it got me down low.
[Am] I could die in the [E] morning, ain't no [Em] one would know.
_ _ My woman come around, my body's shit fine.
_ [Am] Go down to _ Dundee, _ and every [Em] time.
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