Brother Can You Spare A Dime

Am                                   E7     A7

Once I built a railroad, made it run,

D        G7          C        E7

Made it race against time;

Dm/F           E7          Am        F7

Once I build a railroad -- now it's done.

Dm6               E7      Am

Brother, can you spare a dime?

Once I built a tower to the sun,

Brick and rivet and lime;

Once I build a tower -- now it's done.

Brother, can you spare a dime?

A7

Once, in khaki suits, gee, we looked swell,

                               Gm6   A7

Full of that Yankee Doodle de-dum;

D7

Half a million boots went sloggin' through Hell --

Am                      F7    E7

I was the kid with the drum.

Say, don't you remember, they called me Al?

It was Al all the time.

Say, don't you remember?  I'm your pal.

Buddy can you spare  a   dime?

May You Never

G   F   C                     Am
May you never lay your head down,
G                 C
without a hand to hold.
           Am             G               C  F  C
May you never make your bed out in the cold.
 
G  
You're just like a great strong brother of mine;
            C           F              C   
And you know that I love you true.
        G
And You never talk dirty behind my back
          C                      F                 C
and I know that there's those that do.
   G
Oh please won't you, please won't you bear it in mind
Am                               F
love is a lesson to learn in our time.
       G                                                            C  F C
Oh please won't you, please won't you bear it in mind for me?
 
 
May you never lay your head down,
without a hand to hold. 
May you never make your bed out in the cold.
You're just like a good close sister to me
and you know that I love you true.
You hold no blade to stab me in my back
and I know that there's some that do.
Oh please wont ya please wont ya bear it in mind
love is a lesson to learn in our time.
And please wont ya please wont ya bear it in mind for me?
 
May you never lay your head down,
without a hand to hold.
May you never make your bed out in the cold.
You're just like a great strong brother of mine;
you know that I love you true.
You never talk dirty behind my back
and I know that there's those that do.
Oh please won't you please won't you bear it in mind
love is a lesson to learn in our time.
And please won't you please won't you bear it in mind for me?
 
May you never lose your temper,
if you get in a bar room fight.
May you never lose your woman overnight.
 May you never lay your head down,
without a hand to hold.
May you never make your bed out in the cold.

Whiskey Lullaby

Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley

This song is in the key of D.  Standard tuning no capo. The chords are:

D G A Bm

Intro:

Pick  B note second fret of A string 

and then play second fret high E string three times, E string open once

then D note on second string, C sharp on second string, then play second

string open,

Then it happens again  play second fret high E string three times, E string

open once then D note on second string,  second fret  on your high E and then

go up one half step to the third fret which is G. 

D

She put him out like the

G    D

Burnin’ end of a midnight cigarette

D     G   A

she broke his heart he spent his whole life trying to forget

Bm       D

We watched him drink his pain away a little at a time

Bm D

But he never could get drunk enough to get her off his mind until 

A D           A

Until the night he put that bottle to his head and pulled the trigger

Bm G

Finally drank away her memory

D 

Life is short but this time it was bigger

A   Bm         G

Than the strength he had to get up off his knees

D         A

We found him with his face down in the pillow

Bm    G

With a note that said I'll love her till I die

D      A

And when we buried him beneath the willow

G Bm

the angels sang a whiskey lullabye

By la la la la la la la, la la la la la, la, la,

The rumors flew but nobody knew how much she blamed herself

For years and years she tried to hide the whiskey on her breath

She finally drank her pain away a little at a time

But she never could get drunk enough to get him off her mind

Until the night she put that bottle to her head and pulled the trigger

And finally drank away his memory

Life is short but this time it was bigger

Than the strength she had to get up off her knees

We found her with her face down in the pillow

Clinging to his picture for dear life

We laid her next to him beneath the willow

While the angels sang a whiskey lullabye

WHEN YOU SAY NOTHING AT ALL

Alison Krauss

Capo on 1st fret

The Key is Eb

Intro: |D A|G A| 2x

D      A          G             A           D    A G A

It's amazing how you can speak right to my heart

D        A         G           A            D   A G A 

Without saying a word you can light up the dark

G                     A

Try as I may I could never explain

D       A               G          A

What I hear when you don't say a thing

Chorus:

      D               A          G             A

The smile on your face lets me know that you need me

            D             A          G             A

There's a truth in your eyes saying you'll never leave me

   D              A                 G                  A G A 

A touch of your hand says you'll catch me if ever I fall

D    G                 A                     (Intro)

Now you say it best, when you say nothing at all

All day long I can hear people talking out loud

But when you hold me near you drown out the crowd

Old Mister Webster could never define

What's being said between your heart and mine

Words and Music: Don Schlitz and Paul Overstreet

Chords by: Renato Fonseca (fonseca@teclink.net)

Sunny Afternoon

Ray Davis

The Taxman's taken all my dough and left me in my stately home

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

And I can't sail my yacht, he's taken everything I've got

All I've got's this sunny afternoon

Save me, save me, save me from this squeeze - 

I've got a big fat momma trying to squeeze me

And I love to live so pleasantly, live this life of luxury

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

In summertime, in summertime, in summertime

My girlfriend's gone off with my car and gone back to her ma and pa

Telling tales of drunkenness and cruelty

Now I'm sitting here, sipping at my ice-cold beer

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

Help me ,help me, help me sail away

You give me two good reason why I ought to stay

'Cause I love to live so pleasantly, Live this life of luxury

Lazing on a sunny afternoon

In summertime, in summetime, in summertime

Seminole Wind

Ever since the days of old

Men would search for wealth untold

They'd dig for silver and for gold

And leave the empty holes;

And way down south in the Everglades

Where the black water rolls and the saw grass sways

The eagles fly and the otters play

In the land of the Seminole;

So blow, blow Seminole wind

Blow like you're never gonna blow again;

I'm callin' to you like a long-lost friend

But I don't know who you are;

And blow, blow from the Okeechobee

All the way up to Micanopy(pronounced: Meh-can-o-pee)

Blow across the home of the Seminole

The aligator and the gar

Progress came and took its toll

And in the name of flood control

They made their plans and they drained the land

Now the Glades are goin' dry

And the last time I walked in the swamp

I stood up on a cypruss stump

I listened close and I heard the ghost

Of Oseola cry

So blow, blow Seminole wind etc.....

Em     G      D     A

Asking Us To Dance

G 

There's a full moon up and rising and there's a whisper of a breeze 

G                                  C                        D 

Blowing through the tangled silver hanging from the cypress trees 

                        G                                  C 

There's a river made of moonlight flowing clear across the lake 

                                 D                               G 

And there's a million stars just waiting to fall for any wish we make 

There'll be time enough tomorrow to get back to our daily bread 

But there's something 'bout this evening that's put this notion in my head 

That heaven and the earth are meeting tonight upon this very spot 

And all the things on earth worth having are things that we've already got 

To Make You Feel My Love

Bob Dylan

When the rain is blowin' in your face

And the whole world is on your case

I could offer you a warm embrace

To make you feel my love.

When the evening shadows and the stars appear

And there is no one there to dry your tears

I could hold you for a million years

To make you feel my love.

I know you haven't made your mind up yet

But I would never do you wrong

I've known it from the moment that we met

No doubt in my mind where you belong.

I'd go hungry, I'd go black and blue

I'd go crawlin' down the avenue

No, there's nothin' that I wouldn't do

To make you feel my love.

Though storms are raging on the rollin' sea

And on the highway of regrets

Though winds of change are throwing wild and free

You ain't seen nothin' like me yet.

I could make you happy, make your dreams come true

Nothing that I wouldn't do

Go to the ends of the Earth for you

To make you feel my love

In Spite of Ourselves

c

she dont like her eggs a runny

c

she thinks crossen'her legs is funny

f

she looks down her nose at money

   c

she gets it on like the easter bunny

g                                                  c

shes my baby im her honey im never going to let her go

he aint got laid in a month this sunday

caught him once and he was sniffen my undies

he ain't to sharp but he gets things done

he drinks his beer like its oxygen                                         

hes my baby and im his honey,niver gona let him go

c             f                             c

inspite of ourselfs we'll end up sitten on a ranbow

             g                            c

ageanest all odds honey were the big door prize

              f                             c

well were gona spite the noses right off our faces

              g                                      c

there wont be nothen but big old stars dancen'in our eyes

solo:c f g c

she thinks all of my jokes are corny

convict movies makes horny

she likes ketchup on her scrambeld eggs

sweres like a salor when she shaves her legs

she takes a licken and keeps on kicken never gona let her go

he got more balls than a big brass monkey

hes a waked out weardo and a love bug junky

sly as a fox crazy as a loone

when pay day comes hes a howelen at the moon

hes my baby i dont mean maby never gona let him go

I Want to Sing That Rock and Roll

Capo 1st fret

     G             C        G

I wanna sing that rock and roll,

                  A     D

I want to electrify my soul,

G

Cause everybody been making a shout,

C

So big and loud, been drownin' me out,

   G                 C        G

I want to sing that rock and roll.

   G                  C     G

I want to reach that glory land,

   D                A         D    D7

I want to shake my Saviour's hand,

G                     C        G

And I wanna sing that rock and roll,

                  A     D

I want to electrify my soul,

G

Cause everybody been making a shout,

C

So big and loud, been drownin' me out,

G                 C        G

I wanna sing that rock and roll.

G                  C        G

I been a traveling near and far,

     D                     A   D       D7

but I want to lay down my old guitar.

     G                    C        G

And I wanna to sing that rock and roll,

                  A     D

I want to electrify my soul,

G

Cause everybody been making a shout,

C

So big and loud, been drownin' me out,

G                 C        G

I wanna sing that rock and roll.

(Guitar break)

I been a traveling near and far,

But I want to lay down my old guitar.

I wanna sing that rock and roll,

I want to electrify my soul,

Cause everybody been making a shout,

So big and loud, been drownin' me out,

I wanna sing that rock and roll.

I wanna sing that rock and roll.

Gulf Coast Highway

Nanci Griffith

Strum: B   D U B   D U   w/alternating bass

       1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Intro:  Instrumental Chorus

                C (2½)             F (½)         C (2)

Gulf coast highway, he worked the rails

                        C (2)                                       F (2)           
He worked the rice fields with their cold dark wells

                       Am                G              C
He worked the oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico

               F              C                        G                         C (2)
The only thing we've owned is this old house here by the road

Chorus:

                       Am                   G                                C
And when he dies he says he'll catch some blackbird's wing

                     F              C                               G                         C (2)
And we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring

                                    C (2½)           F (½)     C (2)

She walked through springtime when I was home

                           C (2)                          F (2
The days were sweet, our nights were warm

                       Am                             G                           C
The seasons changed, the jobs would come, the flowers fade,

                     F                 C                      G                     C (2)
and this old house felt so alone when the work took me away

Chorus:

                         Am                     G                                  C
And when she dies she says she'll catch some blackbird's wing

                   F                C                               G                         C (2)
And we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring

Instrumental Verse and Chorus

               C (2½)   F (½)       C (2)
Highway 90, the jobs are gone

                     C (2)                      F (2
We kept our garden, we set the sun

                Am                 G                            C
This is the only place on Earth blue bonnets grow

                    F                            C                  G                         C (2)
And once a year they come and go at this old house here by the road

Chorus:

                         Am                G                                C
And when we die we say we’ll catch some blackbird's wing

                   F                C                               G                         C (2)
And we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring

                     Am                   G                                C
Yes when we die we say we’ll catch some blackbird's wing

                   F                C                               G (ritard)           C (2, hold second measure)
And we will fly away to heaven come some sweet blue bonnet spring

SPEED OF THE SOUND OF LONELINESS (John Prine)

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[Nanci Griffith's version is actually in C, with

 a capo on the 5th fret.]

[Each chord is one 2/2 measure] 

G   G   C   C   D   D   G   G

[intro]

G                G                       C     C

  You come home late and you come home early

D              D                        G     G

  You come on big when you're feeling small

G                  G                         C     C

  You come home straight and you come home curly

D                D                  G    G

  Sometimes you don't come home at all

G                 G           C          C

  So what in the world's come over you

D             D              G            G

  And what in heaven's name have I done

G                     G                    C           C

  You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

D                  D                         G     G

  You're out there running just to be on the run

Well I got a heart that burns with a fever

And I got a worried and a jealous mind

How can a love that'll last forever

Get left so far behind

So what in the world's come over you

And what in heaven's name have I done

You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

You're out there running just to be on the run

[Instrumental, same chords as one verse]

It's a mighty mean and a dreadful sorrow

It's crossed the evil line today (?)

How can you ask about tomorrow

When we ain't got one word to say

So what in the world's come over you

And what in heaven's name have I done

You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

You're out there running just to be on the run

So what in the world's come over you

And what in heaven's name have I done

You've broken the speed of the sound of loneliness

You're out there running just to be on the run

You're out there running just to be on the run

D                  D                         G     C    D    G.

  You're out there running just to be on the run

The Galaxy Song