Tabs
Dyin’ Crapshooter's Blues
Blind Willie McTell (capo 2. band)
tab by Torbjørn Nymo (metonymo @ mail . ru)
E minorEm H7 (H7-5#9 H7)*
Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day
Asus2Asus2 E minorEm
Well, he used crooked cards and dice
E minorEm H7 (H7-5#9 H7)
A augmentedA sinful guy, good hearted, but had no soul
Asus2Asus2 E minorEm
Heart was hard and cold like ice
Jesse was a wild reckless gambler, won a gang of change
Although' a many gambler's heart he left in pain
When he began to spend a-loose his money, he began to be blue and all alone
But boy, this heart had even turned to stone
What broke Jesse's heart, while he was blue and all alone
Sweet Lorena packed up and gone
Police walked up and shot my friend Jesse down
(He said) boy, I got to die today
F#7F#7
He had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside
H7 E minorEm
Here are the words he had to say:
E minorEm (H7)
I guess I ought to know
- - E minorEm
Exactly how I want to go (How you wanna go, Jesse?)
E minorEm H7 E minorEm
Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers, let them be veiled down in black
E minorEm H7 H7/f#** E minorEm
I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy, and eight men comin' back
F#7F#7
I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side
H7 E minorEm
Crooked card printed on my hearse
H7 - - - H7 -
Don't say the crapshooters will never grieve over me
- - H7***
My life been a doggone curse
E minorEm H7 E minorEm
Send poker players to the graveyard, dig my grave with the ace of spades
E minorEm H7 H7/f# E minorEm
I want twelve polices in my funeral march, high sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade
F#7F#7
I want the judge and solicitor who jailed me fourteen times
H7 E minorEm
put a pair of dice in my shoes (then what else?)
G+G 
E7E7
Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy
(
A7A7 
D7D7 G+G)**** E minorEm
I got the dyin’ crapshooter's blues
E minorEm H7
Sixteen real good crapshooters, sixteen bootleggers to sing a song
E minorEm H7 H7/f# E minorEm
Sixteen racket men gamblin', couple tend bar while I'm rollin' along
E minorEm H7
He wanted 22 womens out of the Hampton Hotel, 26 off-a South Bell
E minorEm H7 H7/f# E minorEm
29 women out of North Atlanta, know little Jesse didn't pass out so swell
E minorEm
His head was achin', heart was thumpin'
H7 E minorEm
Little Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin' […went to hell bouncin’…]
F#7F#7 H7
Folks, don't be standin' 'round ol' Jesse cryin'
A minorAm E minorEm H7 E minorEm
He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he's dyin’
E minorEm
One foot up, and a toenail dragging
A minorAm H7 E minorEm
Throw my friend Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
G+G (g - f# - e)***** E7E7
Come here mama with that can of booze
A7A7 D7D7 G+G
The dyin’ crapshooter's, blues, I mean
A7A7 D7D7 G+G
The dyin’ crapshooter's blues...
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coda from another version
A7A7 D7D7 G+G
The Dyin Crapshooter's, leavin' the world
A7A7 D7D7 G+G
The Dyin' Crapshooter's, goin' down slow
A7A7 D7D7 G+G
With the Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues
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E minorEm 022000/075000
Asus2Asus2 x02200
A minorAm x02210
H7 x21202/x24242
H7-5#9 x2123x
H7/f# 2x1202
F#7F#7 242322
G+G 320003
G/f# 220003/20xxxx
E7E7 020100/020130
A7A7 x02020
D7D7 200212/x00212
Dyin’ Crapshooter's Blues
(from "Atlanta Twelve String", capo 2. fret)
Intro (/ = slide):
H7/d# E minorEm H7 /-5#9 E minorEm ...
: . . . : . . . : . . . : . . .
--2/--3-3-3-3-3---2---------------0---------------2---2---------------0--
--0---0-0-0-0-0---0---------------0-------0-------0---0---3---3-------0---
--2/--3-3-3-3-3---2---0-----------0---0---0---2---2-------2---2-------0----
--1/--2-2-2-2-2---1-------2-------2---2---2---1---------------1---2---2----
------------------------------2-------2-------2-------------------2-------
------------------------------0-----------------------------------0------
Embellishments:
* **
H7 H7-5#9 H7 H7 H7/f# E minorEm
--2--------------(2)--- --2----2------2---0---
--0-------3-------0---- --0----0---0--0---0---
--2-------2-------2---- --2----2---2--2---0---
--1------(1)-----(1)--- --1----1---1------2---
--2------(2)-----(2)--- --2----x---x------2---
----------------------- -------2--------------
(x = mute)
*** *****
H7 E minorEm G+G g f# e E7E7
--2-------(2)--(0)--- -(3)-----------------(0)--0--
---0------(0)--(0)--- -(0)-----------------(0)--0--
----2------2----0---- --0-------------------1---1--
-----1-----1----2---- --0-------------------0---0--
------2----2----2---- --2-------------------2---2--
-------0--------0---- --3----3----2----0----0------
...that can of booze...
****
Descending bass (replaces A7A7 D7D7 G+G) (x = mute):
E7E7 e d c h a g g f# f e E minorEm ...
. . : . . . : . . . : .
--0---------------------------------------------------------------------0-0---
--0-----------------------------------------------------------------0---0-0----
--1-----------------------------------------x-----x-----x-----x-----0---0-0-----
--0-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----------5-----4-----3-----2-----2---2-------
--2-----------5-----3-----2-----0-----------------------------------2----------
--------0-----------------------------3---------------------------------------
I got the dyin’ crapshooter's blues...
