• Song:

    I Told Him That

  • Artist:

    Larkin Patty

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From: cimo@cs.montana.edu (Bob Cimikowski)

Here's a Patty Larkin tune off the "Angels Running" album which
is easy to learn and hauntingly beautiful, I think.  Mary Chapin
Carpenter sings a nice harmony on the chorus.  The Story also sing
background vocals on several songs.  It's a gem of an album.
Can someone correctly rename the F* chord below?  I've indicated
the chords. A listen to the song should convey the simple picking
pattern.


                  I Told Him That My Dog Wouldn't Run
                  -----------------------------------
                           (Patty Larkin)


Guitar: standard tuning, capo V

Chords:

C: E (022100@1)name="chord_x02220@1">A D (xx0232@1)name="chord_320003@1">G B (x2444x@1)name="chord_022100@1">E               F*:
  =x=========== V               ============= V
  _|_|_|_|_o_|_                 _o_|_|_|_o_|_
  _|_|_o_|_|_|_                 _|_|_|_|_|_|_
  _|_o_|_|_|_|_                 _|_o_o_|_|_|_
  _|_|_|_|_|_|_                 _|_|_|_|_|_|_
       h (x2444x@1)                       A (x02220@1)
  h = hammer on
  a = add note

  C (x32010@1)                           F*
I told him that my dog wouldn't run
  C (x32010@1)                       F*
I told him that I loved someone
                    CYeah, (x32010@1)that's my old car out there
               F*
In the parking lot

  C (x32010@1)                          F*
I saw him when he first walked in
  C (x32010@1)                        F*
I thought it was a vision of him
                    C (x32010@1)          F*
He was looking like where he had been
                C (x32010@1)     F*
Looking kind of fragile


Refrain:

        Am (x02210@1)       F*          GHe (320003@1)said I read the Bible every day
                             AmTryin' (x02210@1)to keep the demons at bay
      AmThank (x02210@1)God when the sun goes down
GI (320003@1)don't blow away


My friend said, was he always like that
I said yeah, but he was never this bad
I remember us playing for nickels and dimes
Out on the corner

I asked him to marry me once
He told me he couldn't because
This would be all that there was

(Refrain)

He was laughing but I didn't get the joke
He was dying to light up a smoke
And I wanted to cry

In the florescent light of the restaurant
I smiled and I got up to go
I was hoping for a goodbye to hold

But it was kind of like touching a ghost
So I ran when I walked out

(Refrain)

I got in my car and I drove
Over the bridge to the coast
Wondering where does old love go

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