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Untitled Throw Me A Rope by Gillian Welch

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Untitled, aka Throw Me A Rope
Gillian Welch, David Rawlings
performed on Prairie Home Companion 11/1/2003
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/20031101/index.shtml
lyrics transcribed by Boney Earnest 10/1/2005:
http://boneyearnest.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_boneyearnest_archive.html
crd transcription Kurt Herrmann 1/31/2006

A beautiful song we hope to see on a forthcoming album.
Here's my rendition.  Some chords I know are more complex
with the dual guitar interplay, but I think this is basically it.
I'm not sure about the transition chord in the prechorus,
where it shifts from some kind of E minor to an E major.
Also foggy is the Em7/Asus2 towards the end of the chorus.
Note the ending outro is different from the rest of the song.


NOTE: capo 3rd fret (so an E minor as noted here is really a G minor).
This is easier for me to deal with.  Sorry if you don't like it.
standard tuning EADGBE

(intro)
Em Am/Am7

(verse)
Em
I lost you a while ago.
Am                 Em
Still I don't know why.
Em
I can't say your name
Am                    Em
without a crow flying by.

(prechorus)
Cmaj7          Em/Em7
Gotta watch my back
                        E/E7
now that you turned me around.
Am/Am7
You got me walkin backwards
            Em
into my hometown.

(chorus)
G          C
Throw me a rope
       G       C
on the rolling tide.
Am           Em         C
What did you want it to be?
Am            Em     C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C                      G
that's the way it will be.
C

(verse)
Em
We were seven years on the Burma shore
     Am/Am7           Em
with Gatling guns and (paint? pails? pain?),
Em
working the lowlands door to door
Am/Am7          Em
like Latter Day Saints.

Cmaj7                  Em/Em7
But then you turned me out
                  E/E7
at the top of the stairs.
Am/Am7
You took all the glory
                       Em
that you just couldn't share.

G          C
Throw me a rope
       G       C
on the rolling tide.
Am           Em         C
What did you want it to be?
Am            Em     C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C                      G
that's the way it will be.
C

Em
I've never been so disabused.
Am/Am7             Em
I've never been so mad.
Em
I've never been served anything
Am/Am7         Em
that tasted so bad.

Cmaj7            Em/Em7
You might need a friend
                 E/E7
any day now, any day.
Am/Am7
O my brother be careful.
                 Em
You are drifting away.

G          C
Throw me a rope
       G       C
on the rolling tide.
Am           Em         C
What did you want it to be?
Am            Em     C
You said it's him or me.
Em7/Asus2
The way you made it,
C                      G
that's the way it will be.
C

Am/Am7      Em
The way you made it,
C                      Em
that's the way it will be.

Em          Am/Am7
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