Navajo Rug chords by Jerry Jeff Walker

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 2nd

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: G+G

Difficulty: Novice

Intro:
G+G E minorEm C majorC D MajorD G+G E minorEm D MajorD

Verse 1:
       G+G
Well it's two eggs up on whiskey toast
   A minorAm
Home fries on the side,
     C majorC
You wash her down with the roadhouse coffee
      D MajorD
That burns up your inside,
        G+G
It's just a canyon, Colorado diner,
   C majorC
A augmentedA waitress I did love,
C majorC
We sat in the back 'neath an old stuffed bear,
D MajorD
A augmentedA worn out Navajo rug.

Chorus:
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC       D MajorD
Shades of red and blue
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC                 G+G   E minorEm D MajorD
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you

Verse 2:
D MajorD       G+G
Well, old Jack the boss, he left at six
        A minorAm
It was, 'Katie, bar the door'.
   C majorC
She'd pull down that Navajo rug
          D MajorD
And we'd spread it across the floor,
      G+G
I saw lightning frame the sacred mountains
      C majorC
The wooing of the turtle doves
C majorC
Just Lying next to Katie,
  D MajorD
On that old Navajo rug.

Chorus:
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC       D MajorD
Shades of red and blue
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC                 G+G   E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you

Verse 3:
G+G
Well, I saw old Jack about a year ago,
A minorAm
Said the place burned to the ground,
C majorC
All he saved was an old bear tooth
D MajorD
And Katie she left town,
G+G
Well, Katie, got a souvenir too,
      A minorAm
Jack smiled as he spit out a big old plug,
C majorC
Well, you shoulda seen her coming through the smoke
D MajorD
She was dragging that Navajo rug.

Chorus:
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC       D MajorD
Shades of red and blue
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC                 G+G   E minorEm C majorC D MajorD
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you

Verse 4:
G+G
So every time I cross the sacred mountains
A minorAm
And lightning jumps above,
C majorC
It always takes me back in time
D MajorD
To my long lost Katie love,
G+G
You know everything keeps on a moving
A minorAm
Everybody's on the go,
C majorC
Hey, you don't find things that last anymore
D MajorD
Like a hand-woven Navajo.

Chorus:
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC       D MajorD
Shades of red and blue
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC                 G+G    E minorEm
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you..Katie

Chorus:
C majorC       D MajorD
Shades of red and blue
  G+G    E minorEm
Aye aye aye, Katie
C majorC                 G+G    E minorEm
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you
C majorC                 G+G
Whatever became of the Navajo rug and you