• Song:

    Six White Horses

  • Artist:

    Waylon Jennings

  • Album:

    Nashville Rebel

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************** SIX WHITE HORSES ***************

performed by Waylon Jennings.


Verse 1:
         E (022100@1)           F#m (244222@1)        A (x02220@1)         E (022100@1)Come here and look through the window Marie
                      F#m (244222@1)       A (x02220@1)          E (022100@1)Open up the shutters,tell me what you see
          G#m (133111@4)                     A (x02220@1)         E (022100@1)Was that his knock that i heard at the door
                      F#m (244222@1)          D (xx0232@1)           E (022100@1)Or is it six white horses coming down the road


Verse 2:
         E (022100@1)           F#m (244222@1)        A (x02220@1)             E (022100@1)Come here and touch me and say that it's alright
                       F#m (244222@1)          A (x02220@1)              E (022100@1)You know that to my eyes the days are as the nights
          G#m (133111@4)                      A (x02220@1)                E (022100@1)Read again the letter that tells me where he's gone
                         F#m (244222@1)       D (xx0232@1)         E (022100@1)To hell with the fighting i want my son home


Verse 3:
          E (022100@1)            F#m (244222@1)           A (x02220@1)           E (022100@1)I taught him to fish and i taught him to be strong
                         F#m (244222@1)         A (x02220@1)      E (022100@1)I taught him that killing any man was wrong
           G#m (133111@4)                     A (x02220@1)              E (022100@1)But tommorrow in battle i'd run to where he stood
                         F#m (244222@1)       D (xx0232@1)         E (022100@1)If the help of ablind (x02210@1)man would do any good


Break (F#).


Verse 4:(a tone higher)
           F# (244322@1)        G#m (133111@4)      B (x2444x@1)        F# (244322@1)Last night i went to his room for awhile
                          G#m (133111@4)             B (x2444x@1)         F# (244322@1)I've touched all the things that he used as achild (x02210@1)           A#m (x13321@1)                  B (x2444x@1)        F# (244322@1)I rocked the cradle where he used to lay
                          G#m (133111@4)       E (022100@1)       F# (244322@1)I found his tin soldiers and threw them away


Verse 5:(idem)
           F# (244322@1)         G#m (133111@4)       B (x2444x@1)        F# (244322@1)Come here and look through the window Marie
                      G#m (133111@4)        B (x2444x@1)        F# (244322@1)Open up the shutters,tell me what you see
           A#m (x13321@1)                B (x2444x@1)             F# (244322@1)Was that his knock that i heard at the door
                      G#m (133111@4)          E (022100@1)        F# (244322@1)Or is it six white horses coming up the road


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Thanks to David M. Potter for the lyrics.
Perret Charles-Amir : perret@diva.univ-mlv.fr

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