Chords
Song for a Deck Hand's Daughter - James McMurtry
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>From "Too Long in the Wasteland".
Transcribed by John Kean ([email protected]).
Standard tuning, no capo.
INTRO:
C majorC
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*use variants on this strum pattern throughout
VERSE 1:
C majorC 
DmDm
He'd always whistle ...
Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC
On his way out the back ...
C majorC DmDm
So many times he ...
Fmaj7Fmaj7 C majorC 
C/BC/B
And rarely did he try to ...
A minorAm 
E minorEm
Shut off the tractor with ...
F/CF/C C majorC
Set the brake and ...
A minorAm E minorEm
Came home for Christmas, ...
F/CF/C
With no presents for ...
A minorAm
Only stories for ...
CHORUS 1:
A minorAm G(see riff at end)
Still your Mama ...
C majorC C/BC/B
She never ...
A minorAm 
G+G
Said she couldn't ...
F/CF/C A minorAm
You wondered how it ...
VERSE 2:
He'd work two weeks out on a river b...
CHORUS 2 (same as before)
SOLO:
A minorAm G+G F/CF/C A minorAm
A minorAm G+G F/CF/C A minorAm
A minorAm G+G F/CF/C A minorAm
VERSE 3:
A minorAm E minorEm
And if his suitcase wasn't ...
F/CF/C C majorC
He might not be ...
A minorAm E minorEm
All the sides of him you ...
F/CF/C
Would be drifting ....
A minorAm
To another ...
CHORUS 3: (chords as before)
Still your Mama called him ....
OUTRO:
A minorAm C/BC/B C majorC
CHORUS RIFF:
G+G
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CHORDS: (bracketed notes indicate alternating bass notes)
C majorC (3)32010
DmDm x(0)0231
Fmaj7Fmaj7 x(3)3210
C/BC/B x22010
A minorAm (0)02210
E minorEm 0(2)2000
F/CF/C x3(3)21x
G+G 320003
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