Dyin Crapshooter S Blues tab by Mctell Blind Willie
Guitar Tab
Dyin’ Crapshooter's Blues
Blind Willie McTell (capo 2. band)
tab by Torbjørn Nymo (metonymo @ mail . ru)
Em H7 (H7-5#9 H7)*
Little Jesse was a gambler, night and day
Asus2 Em
Well, he used crooked cards and dice
Em H7 (H7-5#9 H7)
A sinful guy, good hearted, but had no soul
Asus2 Em
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
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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -
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#7
He had a gang of crapshooters and gamblers at his bedside
H7 Em
Here are the words he had to say:
Em (H7)
I guess I ought to know
- - Em
Exactly how I want to go (How you wanna go, Jesse?)
Em H7 Em
Eight crapshooters to be my pallbearers, let them be veiled down in black
Em H7 H7/f#** Em
I want nine men going to the graveyard, buddy, and eight men comin' back
F#7
I want a gang of gamblers gathered 'round my coffin-side
H7 Em
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
Em H7 Em
Send poker players to the graveyard, dig my grave with the ace of spades
Em H7 H7/f# Em
I want twelve polices in my funeral march, high sheriff playin' blackjack, lead the parade
F#7
I want the judge and solicitor who jailed me fourteen times
H7 Em
put a pair of dice in my shoes (then what else?)
G E7
Let a deck of cards be my tombstone, buddy
(A7 D7 G)**** Em
I got the dyin’ crapshooter's blues
Em H7
Sixteen real good crapshooters, sixteen bootleggers to sing a song
Em H7 H7/f# Em
Sixteen racket men gamblin', couple tend bar while I'm rollin' along
Em H7
He wanted 22 womens out of the Hampton Hotel, 26 off-a South Bell
Em H7 H7/f# Em
29 women out of North Atlanta, know little Jesse didn't pass out so swell
Em
His head was achin', heart was thumpin'
H7 Em
Little Jesse went down bouncin' and jumpin' […went to hell bouncin’…]
F#7 H7
Folks, don't be standin' 'round ol' Jesse cryin'
Am Em H7 Em
He wants everybody to do the Charleston whiles he's dyin’
Em
One foot up, and a toenail dragging
Am H7 Em
Throw my friend Jesse in the hoodoo wagon
G (g - f# - e)***** E7
Come here mama with that can of booze
A7 D7 G
The dyin’ crapshooter's, blues, I mean
A7 D7 G
The dyin’ crapshooter's blues...
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coda from another version
A7 D7 G
The Dyin Crapshooter's, leavin' the world
A7 D7 G
The Dyin' Crapshooter's, goin' down slow
A7 D7 G
With the Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues
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Em 022000/075000
Asus2 x02200
Am x02210
H7 x21202/x24242
H7-5#9 x2123x
H7/f# 2x1202
F#7 242322
G 320003
G/f# 220003/20xxxx
E7 020100/020130
A7 x02020
D7 200212/x00212
Dyin’ Crapshooter's Blues
(from "Atlanta Twelve String", capo 2. fret)
Intro (/ = slide):
H7/d# Em H7 /-5#9 Em ...
: . . . : . . . : . . . : . . .
--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# Em
--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 Em G g f# e E7
--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...
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Descending bass (replaces A7 D7 G) (x = mute):
E7 e d c h a g g f# f e Em ...
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--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----------
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