Wyoming Wind - Live tab by Mark Erelli

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Wyoming Wind by Mark Erelli

This song is off of Seven Curses, an album of murder ballads by Erelli & Jeffrey Foucault. I saw Caitlin
Canty perform this song live, and I believe this version is probably a little closer to hers. I think you
can find a similar performance on youtube. Standard fingerings for all chords with lots of hammer-ons and
pull-offs.

I capo III to suit my voice, but i don't think that will match any recording. Enjoy!


  G+G             D MajorD
Oh, The Laramie lights
       G+G
Sparkle like diamonds
      G+G             D MajorD
Like the stars fallen down from the night
          E minorEm
They just kept a-shinin'
       C majorC
And there's a runaway train
    D MajorD
On the high desert plain
 E minorEm              C majorC
Untamed and it won't be fenced in
     G+G           D MajorD
And it's known by the name
         G+G
of the Wyoming Wind

   G+G         D MajorD
It'll rip through a man
          G+G
Like a bullet but faster
  G+G            D MajorD
From Cody on down to Cheyenne
D MajorD          E minorEm
Clear through to Nebraska
   C majorC
It howls and it haunts
D MajorD
Goes where it wants
   E minorEm              C majorC
I'll taunt you and get under your skin
      G+G         D MajorD
No, there ain't no shelter
         G+G
From the Wyoming Wind


     E minorEm
AS the tears you did weep
      C majorC
Based the blood from your cheeks
G+G               D MajorD
And the stars faded into the blue
     E minorEm
When you heard the wind blowing'
     C majorC
Did you feel more alone
      G+G              D MajorD
Or did it sound like God whispering to you?

G+G         D MajorD
Wide open spaces
D MajorD          G+G
nothing but time to forget
G+G             D MajorD
Anger flares up and then fades
D MajorD          E minorEm
like a cowboy cigarette
   C majorC
Reservation ghosts
   D MajorD
Old split-rail fence posts
   E minorEm          C majorC
Just echoes remain of our sins
     G+G            D MajorD
But they whine, whine, whine
         G+G
On the Wyoming Wind


     G+G         D MajorD
Oh, they whine, whine, whine
        G+G