Tiger Tom Dixons Blues chords by Slaid Cleaves

Chords with lyrics

Slaid Cleaves - Tiger Tom Dixon's Blues


CAPO: 2nd Fret



INTRO: D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD (2x)

     C majorC      G+G     D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon had a gift from god
         C majorC        G+G    D MajorD
He could hit you quick, he could hit you hard
          C majorC      G+G       D MajorD
In a world where a man's hands are put to the test
     C majorC    G+G       D MajorD   G+G
Tiger Tom Dixon's hands were the best

CHORUS:
              A augmentedA   G+G
Men came from Boston, from Ohio
             A augmentedA          G+G
Corners of counties that you'll never know
              A augmentedA         G+G
Barrooms and pool halls with nothing to show
             A augmentedA
'Cept for the fists that they did throw
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
At Tiger Tom Dixon
D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon


          C majorC      G+G    D MajorD
He'd step into the ring, gloves tied on tight
         C majorC       G+G       D MajorD
After humbling a man, Tom would tie one on in spite
         C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
Kick back into a whiskey like it was an easy chair
      C majorC       G+G     D MajorD
Drink to anything that the Devil may care


         C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
Now Tom held the future in his right fist
           C majorC    G+G       D MajorD
But there was no good time Tom Dixon could resist
        C majorC     G+G         D MajorD
No neon in New England he hadn't passed out under
     C majorC        G+G    D MajorD    G+G
No white lightning hadn't felt his thunder

CHORUS:
              A augmentedA   G+G
Men came from Boston, from Ohio
             A augmentedA          G+G
Corners of counties that you'll never know
               A augmentedA         G+G
Barrooms and bar stools with nothing to show
             A augmentedA
'Cept for the fists that they did throw
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
At Tiger Tom Dixon
D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon


INSTRUMENTAL: D MajorD C majorC G+G D MajorD (4x)


       C majorC      G+G     D MajorD
Tougher than leather and quick as a cat
         C majorC     G+G     D MajorD
Till a young man one day is no longer that
             C majorC     G+G      D MajorD
And the dreams of those around him sink to the quick
          C majorC        G+G      D MajorD
When he slows just enough for them to figure the trick


        C majorC     G+G        D MajorD
Come a day in December the steely winds did blow
        C majorC    G+G     D MajorD
Into the ring a man Tom Dixon did know
              C majorC        G+G     D MajorD
It was himself without the bottle, and the dream held fast
       C majorC           G+G      D MajorD
He took Tom's dream with him and he never looked back


            C majorC      G+G     D MajorD
Tom rolled around that bottle for a couple of years
            C majorC     G+G    D MajorD
Till he was put in the ground by his own fears
        C majorC      G+G      D MajorD
Now all that is left is the story I have told
             C majorC     G+G    D MajorD     C majorC   G+G D MajorD
And the dream that still waits to unfold for Tiger Tom Dixon
     C majorC   G+G D MajorD G+G
Tiger Tom Dixon


CHORUS:
              A augmentedA   G+G
Men came from Boston, from Ohio
             A augmentedA          G+G
Corners of counties that you'll never know
               A augmentedA         G+G
Barrooms and bar stools with nothing to show
             A augmentedA
'Cept for the fists that they did throw
  D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
At Tiger Tom Dixon
D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon
D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon
D MajorD     C majorC   G+G  D MajorD
Tiger Tom Dixon


OUTRO:  (## repeat and fade to end ##)