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Black Throated Wind by Grateful Dead

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BLACK THROATED WIND

By: Weir/Barlow
As performed on the Album Ace

Chorded by Abe Klagsbrun (AKlagsbrun@msn.com) 12/1/95


 E                F#m
Bringing me down, I'm ...
D              A                      E
Blind in the light of ...
E              F#m
Passing me by, the ...
D               A                         E
Plunging like stones from a ...
A                          D  C#m       Bm   A
But I'm here by the road...
Bm                                          E
That I picked up in ten ...
A                                       D            C#m   Bm   A
Alone with the rush of the ...
Bm                                          E
The highway, the moon, the ...
D                  C#m          A
Black throated wind, ...
                                           E    C   A
With its words of a life where ...
D            C#m           E          A
Ah, mother american night, I'm ...
G   D                A
Oh, I'm ...

E                          F#m   D                  A               E
I left St. Louis, city of blues, in the ...
E                                F#m
I tried to pretend it ...
D                       A                      E
Cause you weren't the ...

A                       D  C#m         Bm  A Bm
But I can't deny, that ...
Bm                                       E
Where I never had ...
A                               D  C#m  Bm  A
And I was a man when all ...
Bm                                         E
Who wouldn't think ...

D                   C#m         A
Black throated wind, ...
                              E              C   A
And it speaks of a ...
D                 C#m                    E       A
It's forced me to see ...
G         D                     A
Better by me ...

E                               F#m               
Now what's to be ...
D               A                 E
You carry your ..
E                                    F#m
All full of the ...
D                 A                          E
You ain't gonna learn what ...

A                        D  C#m         Bm    A
So I give you my eyes, ...
Bm                                       E
Please help them to ...
A                 D   C#m      Bm    A
Capture a glance, ...
Bm                            E
Of looking at you, ...

D                   C#m          A
Black throated wind...
                                     E            C   A
With its words of a lie ..
D            C#m            E     A
Ah, mother american ...
G             D                       A
I'm turning around, th...
G           D                     A
Going back home that's ...


Black-Throated Wind -- Grateful Dead  (Barlow, Weir)
 
 
INTRO:  E -- Esus4 -- E
 
 
E                        F#m
You're bringing me ...
 
D            A                        E    Esus4
Blind in the lights of ...
 
E              F#m
Passing me by, the ...
 
D             A                          E
Plunging like stones from a ...
 
A                   A7    D            DaddC#
But I'm here by the road, ...
 
Bm                                    E
I picked up in ten ...
 
A                          A7           D             DaddC#
Alone with the rush of the ...
 
Bm                                           E
The highway, the moon and the ...
 
D                    F#m      A
Black throated wind, ...
 
                                E          C    A
With its words of a ...
 
D          F#m             E      A              G
Ah, mother American night...
 
    D               A    Asus4  A  E
Ah, I'm ...

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