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From: snd0@gov.nt.ca (Shaun Dean)

Walk Throught the Bottomland - Lyle Lovett

  C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)    G (320003@1)       CA (x32010@1)New Jersey lady I knew long ago
    F (133211@1)       Em (022000@1)   G7And (320001@1)she was a lady I say
    C (x32010@1)       F (133211@1)        G (320003@1)       CBut (x32010@1)she met a cowboy who rode on a rodeo
    F (133211@1)          G (320003@1)           CAnd (x32010@1)he stole her heart straight away

    C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)          CThe (x32010@1)New Jersey lady she loved him so true
  F (133211@1)        Em (022000@1)      G7Another (320001@1)love she never had
    C (x32010@1)         F (133211@1)          G (320003@1)         CBut (x32010@1)cowboys are lonesome and cowboys are blue
    F (133211@1)           G (320003@1)       CAnd (x32010@1)they make the ladies so sad

                F (133211@1)       CChorus: (x32010@1)	Sing me amelody (x02210@1)                F (133211@1)       C (x32010@1)	Sing me ablues (x02210@1)                F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)	Walk through the bottomland without no shoes
                F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)	The Brazos she's running scared
                F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)	She heard the news
                F (133211@1)              C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)        C (x32010@1)	Walk through the bottomland without no shoes


    C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)       G (320003@1)          CThe (x32010@1)New Jersey lady knew he loved her too
        F (133211@1)      Em (022000@1)          G7And (320001@1)you know she tried to hold on
        C (x32010@1)   F (133211@1)          G (320003@1)          CBut (x32010@1)the rodeo life was the life that he knew
   F (133211@1)         G (320003@1)       CHe (x32010@1)had to keep drifting along

C (x32010@1)       F (133211@1)         G (320003@1)       CShe (x32010@1)never married and she never would
    F (133211@1)        Em (022000@1)          G7And (320001@1)all of the people they'd say
    C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)           CThe (x32010@1)New Jersey lady she just ain't no good
   F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)         CTo (x32010@1)follow a cowboy that way


Chorus

    F (133211@1)        C (x32010@1)         G (320003@1)          CThe (x32010@1)lady she'd sing him to sleep in the night
    F (133211@1)    Em (022000@1)         GAnd (320003@1)in the morning he'd go
F (133211@1)           C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)       CShe (x32010@1)loved the darkness and hated the light
D (xx0232@1)                      GAlong (320003@1)with that damn rodeo

    C (x32010@1)        F (133211@1)      G (320003@1)         CThe (x32010@1)New Jersey lady the day that he died
    F (133211@1)         Em (022000@1)      G7She (320001@1)covered him over with clay
    C (x32010@1)         F (133211@1)         G (320003@1)          CAnd (x32010@1)feeling the wind in the night as she cried
F (133211@1)           G (320003@1)        CShe (x32010@1)heard the old cowboy say


Chorus