Wyoming Wind - Live tab by Mark Erelli

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

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


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


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


          G                  D
Oh, they whine, whine, whine
               G