Outside The Nashville City Limits chords by Joan Baez

Chords with lyrics

Outside The Nashville City Limits  by  Joan Baez

CAPO 5th fret - The Original Key is FF


  C majorC                 A minorAm
Outside the Nashville city limits, a friend and I did drive,
C majorC                A minorAm
On a day in early winter, I was glad to be alive
  FF        G+G          A minorAm      FF
We went to see some friends of his, who lived upon a farm
FF         G+G         A minorAm      FF
Strange and gentle country folk, who wished nobody harm
FF        G+G   FF         G+G
Fresh-cut sixty acres, eight cows in the barn
    A minorAm       E minorEm       FF       E minorEm
But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December
      FF         G+G      C majorC
Was that my eyes they did brim over, as we talked

    C majorC                A minorAm
In the slowest drawl I ever heard, the man said "Come with me
   C majorC                  A minorAm
If y'all wanna see the prettiest place in all of Tennessee."
  FF        G+G          A minorAm       FF
He poured us each a glass of wine and a-walking we did go,
 FF           G+G           A minorAm       FF
Along fallen leaves and crackling ice, where a tiny brook did flow
FF       G+G           FF        G+G
He knew every inch of the land, and Lord he loved it so
    A minorAm       E minorEm       FF       E minorEm
But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December
      FF         G+G      C majorC
Was that my eyes were brimming over, as we walked

  C majorC              A minorAm
He sat my down upon a stone, beside a running spring
  C majorC                       A minorAm
He talked in a voice so soft and clear, like the waters I heard sing
FF          G+G          A minorAm        FF
He said "We searched quite a time for a place to call our own.
FF           G+G       A minorAm        FF
There was just me and Mary John and now I guess we're home."
 FF            G+G         FF          G+G
I looked at the ground and wondered, how many years they each had roamed
  A minorAm     E minorEm       FF       E minorEm
And Lord I do remember, on that day in late December
    FF         G+G      C majorC
How my eyes kept brimming over, as we talked


     #Key Change: +2 Semi-Tones#

   D MajorD
As we walked
   D MajorD                    B minorBm
And standing there with outstretched arms, he said to me "You know,
D MajorD                 B minorBm
I can't wait till the heavy storms cover the ground with snow,
  G+G           A augmentedA       B minorBm         G+G
And there on the pond the watercress is all that don't turn white.
     G+G        A augmentedA          B minorBm          G+G
When the sun is high you squint your eyes and look at the hills so bright."
  G+G        A augmentedA          G+G       A augmentedA
And nodding his head my friend said, "It seems like overnight,
     B minorBm         GbmGbm      G+G       GbmGbm
That the leaves come out so tender at the turning of the winter..."
       G+G           A augmentedA      D MajorD
I thought the skies they would brim over, as we talked