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Goodnight Loving Trail

Ian Tyson
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
  1 57 1 4 (*)
 On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail____
  1 * 57 *
 Our old woman's lonesome to-night____
  1 57 1 4 (*)
 Your French Harp blows like a lone bawling calf____
  1 6m 2m 57
 It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin
  * * 4 1
 Get in there and blow out the light____
  1 * 57 *
 With your snake oil and herbs and your liniments too
  * * 1 *
 You can do any-thing that a doctor can do
  * * 4 * (*)
 Ex-cept find a cure for your own goddamn stew____
  1 * 57 *
 The cook-fire's gone out and the coffee's all gone
  * * 1 *
 The boys are all up and we're raising the dawn
  * * 4 * (*)
 You're still sitting there all lost in a song____
  1 * 57 *
 I know that some-day that I'll be just the same
 * * 1 *
 Wearing an apron in-stead of a name
  * * 4 * (*)
 But no one can change it and no one's to blame____
 'Cause the desert's a book writ in lizards and sage
 It's easy to look like an old torn-out page
 All faded and cracked with the colors of age
 NOTES:
 - Goodnight-Loving Trail: named for Charles Goodnight & Oliver Loving
 - It ran from Texas to Denver, Colorado; then on to Cheyenne, Wyoming
 SYMBOLS:
 - Asterisk (*) = new measure, play same chord
 - Period (.) = 1/8 note rest at start of a measure
 - Underline(_) = sustain note into next measure
 CHORDS (Number System):
 - Example: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
 - Key of
 
 -  Detailed  description:  /pub/guitar/other_stuff/numbering_system.txt

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Readable chord sheet for Goodnight Loving Trail by Ian Tyson

1         57            1      4     (*)
On the Goodnight Trail, on the Loving Trail____
    1           *           57     *
Our old woman's lonesome to-night____
     1           57           1            4    (*)
Your French Harp blows like a lone bawling calf____
       1          6m         2m            57
It's a wonder the wind don't tear off your skin
    *            *            4      1
Get in there and blow out the light____

          1             *              57        *
With your snake oil and herbs and your liniments too
        *      *            1          *
You can do any-thing that a doctor can do
   *           *             4           *    (*)
Ex-cept find a cure for your own goddamn stew____

    1                *           57           *
The cook-fire's gone out and the coffee's all gone
    *            *            1           *
The boys are all up and we're raising the dawn
       *             *         4         *    (*)
You're still sitting there all lost in a song____

  1              *             57          *
I know that some-day that I'll be just the same
*          *        1          *
Wearing an apron in-stead of a name
    *          *             4           *     (*)
But no one can change it and no one's to blame____

'Cause the desert's a book writ in lizards and sage
It's easy to look like an old torn-out page
All faded and cracked with the colors of age

NOTES:
- Goodnight-Loving Trail: named for Charles Goodnight & Oliver Loving
- It ran from Texas to Denver, Colorado; then on to Cheyenne, Wyoming
SYMBOLS:
- Asterisk (*) =  new measure, play same chord
- Period (.)   =  1/8 note rest at start of a measure
- Underline(_) =  sustain note into next measure

CHORDS (Number System):
- Example:     1    2    3    4    5    6    7
- Key of
 [C]
-[C] Detai[D]led de[E]script[F]ion: /[G]pub/gu[A]itar/o[B]ther_stuff/numbering_system.txt

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