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Date: 10/24/96; 10:36:00 AM
From: "Krall, Steve" 
Subject: Joe Ely:  All Just to Get To You

All Just To Get To You
Music and Lyrics by Joe Ely
>From the Album, Letter To Laredo
Transcribed by Steve Krall (steve.krall@daytonoh.ncr.com)


All Just To Get To You

Intro:  G  G  F  C  (repeat)

Verse 1:
       GI (320003@1)have stumbled on the plains
GStaggered (320003@1)in the wind
GStood (320003@1)at a crossroad or two
DCried (xx0232@1)to a river
DSwept (xx0232@1)to the sea
G (320003@1)         C (x32010@1)    GAll (320003@1)just to get to you

Verse 2:
I have flagged a yellow cab
Hopped a rusty freight
Sang till my lips turned blue
Flown a silver bird
On the tops of the clouds
All just to get to you

Chorus:
  CI (x32010@1)ran too hard,
  GI (320003@1)played too Rough
  CI (x32010@1)gave my Love
    GNot (320003@1)near Enough
  CI (x32010@1)bled too red
  GI (320003@1)cried too blue
  DI (xx0232@1)beat my fist
DAgainst (xx0232@1)the moon
            C (x32010@1)    GAll (320003@1)just to get to you

Verse 3:

I have run from St. Paul
To Wichita Falls
Call'd you from sunny Baton Rouge
Hocked everything
>From my watch to my ring
All just to get to you

Chorus

Break:
Bb  Bbsus (repeat four times)
then hit:  C C C

Verse 4:
>From the California Shore
Where the mighty ocean roars
To  the lands of the Hopi and the Sioux
I walked the desert sands
Crossed the Rio Grande
All just to get to you

Verse 5:
I have stumbled on the plains
Staggered in the wind
Stood at a crossroad or two
Cried to a river
Swept to the sea
All just to get to you

Repeat and fade:
G (320003@1)         F (133211@1)    CAll (x32010@1)just to get to you