Calico Jim chords by Pony Bradshaw

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Calico Jim - Pony Bradshaw

Intro:

F#  G#m7
F#  G#m7

Verse 1:
 B            F#     G#m         D#m  C#  B
Sometimes I dream    To the beat of Carolina
         F#               G#m
I'm bellied up in these blue hills
         D#m          C#    B        C#
And I ain't coming down soon

Chorus:
              F#            C#         B   D#m
It don't have to be high drama     Homeric in plot
         F#                   C#
We can't summon up enough poetry to save us
       B                            D#m
Dead-end work, I've had my fill  Night shift I tend the creel
     F#                   C#            B               D#m
These hinterlands are my home    A mountain myth gone to seed
         B                           C#
This old dog will still hunt I don't need no featherbed
      F#                       C#
I'm spry as the moon I won't even break a sweat

F#  G#m

Verse 2:
         B         F#               G#m                       D#m C#
The native man, he swims upstream  Spies a mess of suits 'neath a hickory
     B                  F#              G#m                   D#m C#
Talking tall in them snakeskin boots  Spittin' lies and tobacco juice

Chorus:
           F#              C#         B      D#m
It don't have to be high drama     Homeric in plot
           F#                C#
We can't summon up enough poetry to save us
      B                             D#m
Dead-end work, I've had my fill  Night shift I tend the creel
     F#                  C#            B               D#m
These hinterlands are my home    A mountain myth gone to seed
        B                          C#
This old dog will still hunt I don't need no featherbed
      F#                      C#
I'm spry as the moon I won't even break a sweat

C#m7  C#7 x3
B  F# G# D#m

Bridge:
  B             F#                 G#m
Calico Jim in a red state He don't pick sides
       D#m
He don't ever take the bait
   B                                    F#                G#m D#m
He ain't slow like you think He don't mostly lie in drink
           B                        F#
And that dressed up talk that you like to talk
          G#m                    D#m
It don't fool him none  It don't change the way he walk
          B                        F#
It don't fool him none It don't change the way he walk
           G#m                              D#m
It don't change the way he walk  It don't change the way he talk
           B                        F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door
           G#m                      D#m
We don't want your new deal, leave us be
           B                          F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door
             G#m                              D#m
This ain't no fascist land, leave us be evermore
         B                             F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door
               G#m                   D#m
We don't want your new deal, leave us be
      B                                F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door
             G#m                             D#m
This ain't no fascist land, leave us be evermore

Outro:
            B                          F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door
        B                               F#
We don't want your new deal, lock the door

G#m   D#m
F# G#m
F# G#m
F#m