East Of Woodstock West Of Viet Nam chords by Tom Russell

Chords with lyrics

• Capo on 4th

Tom Russell - East Of Woodstock, West Of Viet Nam


CAPO: 4th Fret


Intro:
C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF

Verse 1:
  C majorC
"I slept through the Nineteen Sixties"
    FF
I heard Dory Previn say
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But me, I caught me the great white bird
           G+G
To the shores of Africay
    C majorC
Where I lost my adolescent heart
    FF
To the sound of a talking drum
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Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam

Verse 2:
      C majorC
And on the roads outside Oshogbo
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Lord, I fell down on my knees
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There were female spirits in old mud huts
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Iron bells ringing up in the trees
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And an eighty-year-old white priestess
     FF
She made juju all night long
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Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam


Chorus:
        FF
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
      C majorC
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye

In the cinema I saw the man on the moon
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I laughed so hard I cried
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It was somewhere in those rainy seasons
    FF
That I learned to carve my song
   C majorC         G+G      C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam

Verse 3:
  C majorC
Oh Africa, Mother Africa
    FF
You lay heavy on my breast
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You old cradle of civilization
              G+G
Heart of darkness blood and death
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Though we had to play you, running scared
     FF
When the crocodile ate the sun
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Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam


Verse 4:

Well, I think it’s going to rain tonight
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I can smell it coming off the sage
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As I sit here reading old Graham Greene
            G+G
I taste Africa on every page
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And then I close my eyes and see those red clay roads
   FF
It’s sundown, and boys, I’m gone
   C majorC         G+G      C majorC
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam


Chorus:
        FF
Raise high the roof beams, carpenter boy
      C majorC
Yeah, we’re coming through the rye

It was a moveable feast of war and memory
        G+G
A augmentedA dark old lullaby
      C majorC
It was the smoke of a thousand camp fires
      FF
It was the wrong end of a gun
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Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam, yeah
   C majorC         G+G      C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF C majorC  G+G FF C majorC
Yeah, east of Woodstock, west of Vietnam