Texas 1947 chords by Guy Clark

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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Em
Now bein' six ...
    G
I'd seen some ...,
        A
so it's hard ...
         B            Em
what I'm at the ...

Em
Trains are big and ...,
G
screamin' at ..
A
bigger than ...
         B                  Em
at least that's the ...


           B
Trains are big and black ...

louder ...
    A
but everybody's ...
     B                  Em
this might be ...


Em
...than just pickin' ...
       G
or the ...
        A
this is somethin' that ....
B             Em
never seen before.

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

on a hot ...
                     A
somethin' strange ...
         B          Em
and we's all in ...


Em
Well there's ...
          G
they're just sittin' on ...
        A
and the old men left ...
         B                  Em
and they come down ...


Em
Everybody's ...
         G
old Jack Kittrel(?) ...
       A
and us kids put ...
       B                 Em
to the rails to hear ...


   B
So we ...

when they finally said ...
        A
you'd a-thought that ...
    B                Em
was rollin' down ...


Em
Cuz things got ..
G
Momma jerked me ...
A
not before I'd got ...
         B             Em
to lay a nickel on ....


CHORUS:

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

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



Em
...Lord, she never even...



Em
She left fifty or ...
      G
still sittin' on the...
            A
and they're wonderin' ...
    B               Em
and how ...

Em
Oh but me I ...
G
flatter than ...
     A
by a mad dog, ..
    B             Em
red-silver ...


CHORUS:

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CHORDS ONLY, BY VERSE:

V1:

Em  G  A  B  Em

V2:

Em  G  A  B  Em


V3:
B  A  B  Em

V4:
Em  G  A  B  Em

Bridge:

F#m  A  B  Em

V5:
Em  G  A  B  Em

V6:
Em  G  A  B  Em

V7:
B  A  B  Em

V8:
Em  G  A  B  Em



CHORUS:

E  A  B  A  E

B  A  B  E

E  A  B  A  E



Em

V9:
Em  G  A  B  Em

V10:

Em  G  A  B  Em

CHORUS:

E  A  B  A  E

B  A  B  E

E  A  B  A  E