Texas 1947 chords by Guy Clark

Chords with lyrics

Song: Texas 1947
Artist: Guy Clark
Transcribed by: T. Hickson

>From the album "Keepers" (track 2), a live album. I'm probably missing a
lot of the subtleties, but it's a nice, easy way to play it. Guy makes
the verses build as if a train is approaching and passing you by, but you
gotta hear it to make it work.


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E minorEm
Now bein' six ...
  G+G
I'd seen some ...,
    A augmentedA
so it's hard ...
     BB      E minorEm
what I'm at the ...

E minorEm
Trains are big and ...,
G+G
screamin' at ..
A augmentedA
bigger than ...
     BB         E minorEm
at least that's the ...


      BB
Trains are big and black ...

louder ...
  A augmentedA
but everybody's ...
   BB         E minorEm
this might be ...


E minorEm
...than just pickin' ...
    G+G
or the ...
    A augmentedA
this is somethin' that ....
BB       E minorEm
never seen before.

BRIDGE:
     F# minorF#m
And it's ...

on a hot ...
           A augmentedA
somethin' strange ...
     BB     E minorEm
and we's all in ...

E minorEm
Well there's ...
     G+G
they're just sittin' on ...
    A augmentedA
and the old men left ...
     BB         E minorEm
and they come down ...


E minorEm
Everybody's ...
     G+G
old Jack Kittrel(?) ...
    A augmentedA
and us kids put ...
    BB         E minorEm
to the rails to hear ...


  BB
So we ...

when they finally said ...
    A augmentedA
you'd a-thought that ...
  BB        E minorEm
was rollin' down ...


E minorEm
Cuz things got ..
G+G
Momma jerked me ...
A augmentedA
not before I'd got ...
     BB       E minorEm
to lay a nickel on ....


CHORUS:

E MajorE
Look out here she ...,
A augmentedA
Look out there she ...
BB
screamin' straight ...
    A augmentedA     E MajorE
like a mad ...
BB
Big, red, ...

she don't ...
    A augmentedA
she's a fast-...
BB        E MajorE
come to show ...
E MajorE
Look out here she comes...
A augmentedA
Look out there she goes..
BB
screamin' straight ...
    A augmentedA     E MajorE
like a mad ...


E minorEm
...Lord, she never even...


E minorEm
She left fifty or ...
   G+G
still sittin' on the...
      A augmentedA
and they're wonderin' ...
  BB        E minorEm
and how ...

E minorEm
Oh but me I ...
G+G
flatter than ...
   A augmentedA
by a mad dog, ..
  BB       E minorEm
red-silver ...


CHORUS:

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CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:

V1:

E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V2:

E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm


V3:
BB A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V4:
E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

Bridge:

F# minorF#m A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V5:
E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V6:
E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V7:
BB A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V8:
E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm


CHORUS:

E MajorE A augmentedA BB A augmentedA E MajorE

BB A augmentedA BB E MajorE

E MajorE A augmentedA BB A augmentedA E MajorE


E minorEm

V9:
E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

V10:

E minorEm G+G A augmentedA BB E minorEm

CHORUS:

E MajorE A augmentedA BB A augmentedA E MajorE

BB A augmentedA BB E MajorE

E MajorE A augmentedA BB A augmentedA E MajorE