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Ft. Worth Blues
Steve Earle
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3 4 G: 3x0003 |
32 1
C/G: 3x2013 |
T 213
D7/F#: 2x0212 |
3 214
Gsus2sus4: 3x0213 |
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Capo 5
Intro: / G - - - / x4
G C/G G (2)
In Fort Worth all the neon's burnin' bright
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Pretty lights are red and blue
G C/G G (2)
But they shut down all the honkytonks tonight
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Say a prayer or two if they only knew
G C/G G (2)
You used to say the highway was your home
D7/F# (2) G (2)
But we both know that ain't true
G C/G G (2)
It's just the only place a man can go
D7/F# (2) G (2)
When he don't know where he's travelin to
Chorus 1:
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
But Colorado's always clean and healing
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
Tennessee in Spring is green and cool
G C/G G (2)
It never really was your kind of town
D7/F# (2) G (2)
But you went around with the Forth Worth Blues
G C/G G (2)
Somewhere up beyond the great divide
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few
G C/G G (2)
A man can see his way clear to the light
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Just hold on tight that's all you gotta do
Chorus 2:
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
And they say Texas weather's always changin'
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
And one thing change'll bring is somethin' new
G C/G G (2)
And Houston really ain't too bad a town
D7/F# (2) G (2)
So you hang around with the Ft. Worth Blues
Instrumental Verse and 1st line of Chorus
G C/G G (2)
There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Silver light over green and blue
G C/G G (2)
And every place I travel through I find
D7/F# (2) G (2)
Some kind of a sign that you've been through
Chorus 3:
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G
And London never fails to leave me blue
G C/G G (2)
Paris never was my kind of town
D7/F# (2) G (hold)
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
Dedicated to the singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, who died on January 1, 1997. Earle wrote "Fort Worth Blues" a few months later in Galway, during a tour of Europe.
This file is the author's own work and represents his interpretation of this song. It's intended solely for private study, scholarship or research.
