Canyon Joe chords by Joe Purdy

Chords with lyrics

Capo 3rd fret

Chords used:

C: X32010
Em: 022000
F: 133210
G: 320010
Am: X02210

Picking pattern varies in intro sometimes:

e|----------------------------3---|
BB|-------1----------1-------------|
G+G|-----0----0-------0---0---0-----|
D MajorD|---2--------0p2---0-----0-------|
A augmentedA|--------------------------------|
G+G|-3--------------3---------------|

Verse picking pattern - again there are variations, but the former tab-ster wrote
that if you stick to this, you can´t go horribly, fatally wrong:

 C majorC      E minorEm       FF        G+G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|-------1-------------0--------------1----------------1---------|
G+G|-----0--0--0------0----0--0------2----2---2------0-----0---0---|
D MajorD|----2-2---2-----2--2-----2-----3---3----3------0---0-----0-----|
A augmentedA|--3------------------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|--------------0--------------1---------------3-----------------|

    A minorAm       FF       C majorC    A minorAm    G+G    FF
e|----------------------------------------------------------------3-|
BB|-------1--------------1------------1--------1-------1-------2-----|
G+G|-----2---2--2------2----2---2--------0--------2-------0-------3---|
D MajorD|----2-2---2------3---3----3------2--------2-------0--------3------|
A augmentedA|--0----------------------------3--------0-------------------------|
E MajorE|---------------1--------------------------------3--------1--------|


After each verse play the intro again and back to the verse.


Intro: G+G

Verse:

C majorC                  E minorEm
Well I live in the canyon where the old coyotes howl
   FF                   G+G
They come down from the mountains and the dogs begin to growl
     A minorAm                 FF
And they meet up in the darkness, and they fight until the death
      C majorC        A minorAm     G+G       FF
When the morning sun is rising I will bury who is left

G+G     A minorAm
Oh-------- Oh
FF          C majorC     G+G
They call me Canyon Joe

C majorC             E minorEm
And I stay in the cabin Where I work my hands to bleed
FF                 G+G
Swing the hammer to the nail And I swing the axe onto the tree
A minorAm                 FF
And I once cleared these woods Yeah there used to be a path
C majorC       A minorAm            G+G               FF
And now the trees have overgrown just to prove that nothing lasts

G+G     A minorAm
And oh-----oh,
FF   C majorC     G+G
they call me Canyon Joe


C majorC             E minorEm
The old man went crazy He lives high up on the ridge
FF                       G+G
He used to tell me all the stories of the church house and the bridge
A minorAm                        FF
But the bridge, she washed away your sin The church house- it got burned
 C majorC          A minorAm    G+G         FF
'Cause this world has gone angry and some people never learn

G+G      A minorAm
And oh-----oh,
FF   C majorC     G+G
they call me Canyon Joe


C majorC                E minorEm
And I once loved a woman Yes and Georgia was her name
FF               G+G
We met out in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain Range
A minorAm               FF
We saw the world together Least the parts that we love most
 C majorC         A minorAm          G+G           FF
She still comes to me in dreams I am still haunted with her ghost


G+G      A minorAm
And oh-----oh,
FF   C majorC    G+G
they call me Canyon Joe

C majorC               E minorEm
And all my thoughts are heavy My beard, it has grown long
FF                      G+G
And I search the face of six-strings for an old familiar song
A minorAm                        FF
But the chords, they all sound foreign like the places that I've been
C majorC      A minorAm      G+G          FF
So I close my eyes to sleep Tomorrow I will try again


G+G  A minorAm FF      C majorC        G+G
And oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Singing oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe