Song: The Man Who Would Speak True
Artist: Blitzen Trapper
Album: "Destroyer of the Void" [2010]

Tab by Devin Miller

Tuning: Standard EADGBe

**CAPO 7th FRET**

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Chord reference (note the chord names are written as if there was
                 no capo, for simplicity):

    Am (x02210@1)D7sus4 (xx0213@1)D7 (xx0212@1)Em7   A9 (x02423@1) C (x32010@1)  G (320003@1)  D (xx0232@1)
e|-------------------0----0----0----3----2---|
B|--1----1------1----3----0----1----0----3---|
G|--2----2------2----4----2----0----0----2---|
D|--2----0------0----0----x----2----0----0---|
A|--0----x------x----5----4----3----2--------|
E|-------3------2----0----0---------3--------|


Am (x02210@1)           D7sus4I (xx0213@1)had a lover, name was Grace

    D7 (xx0212@1)               D7sus4She (xx0213@1)found me down in a lonely place

Am (x02210@1)                   D7sus4She (xx0213@1)dug me out with an old jar bow

      D7 (xx0212@1)               D7sus4She (xx0213@1)dressed me up for to take me home

    Am (x02210@1)                D7sus4She (xx0213@1)fed me words that I could not taste

      D7 (xx0212@1)                  D7sus4For (xx0213@1)I had no tongue, it had been replaced

     Am (x02210@1)                  D7sus4By (xx0213@1)a green and a-growin' flower which grew

      D7 (xx0212@1)             D7sus4 (xx0213@1)             AmAnd (x02210@1)I knew if I ever spoke I would speak true

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D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)---

Am (x02210@1)                    D7sus4We (xx0213@1)lived together in an old hotel

D7 (xx0212@1)                     D7sus4 (xx0213@1)
Broke-down palace with a wishing well

    Am (x02210@1)                     D7sus4The (xx0213@1)neighbour girl taught me how to spell

    D7 (xx0212@1)                D7sus4And (xx0213@1)how to steal what I could not sell

      Am (x02210@1)                 D7sus4But (xx0213@1)I fed my tongue on the devil's rum

      D7 (xx0212@1)               D7sus4And (xx0213@1)a roadhouse run by a godless bum

     Am (x02210@1)                 D7sus4On (xx0213@1)a drunken night with a stolen gun

  D7 (xx0212@1)                 D7sus4I (xx0213@1)shot my lover as she made to run

    Em7              A9The (x02423@1)judge said "Son, what have you done?"

      Em7                       A9But (x02423@1)I didn't speak a word, no I didn't speak one

        C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)    DAnd (xx0232@1)the judge sent me away

         C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)              D7sus4 (xx0213@1)  AmAnd (x02210@1)they buried my Grace, yeah, the very next day

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D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)---

Am (x02210@1)                  D7sus4They (xx0213@1)sent me out on a midnight train

       D7 (xx0212@1)                          D7sus4In (xx0213@1)the rain rollin' down through the dusty plain

Am (x02210@1)                  D7sus44 (xx0213@1)men sittin' with an old shotgun

D7 (xx0212@1)                   D7sus4silver (xx0213@1)stars pinned on everyone

     Am (x02210@1)                   D7sus4They (xx0213@1)busted my mouth for to get at my tongue

   D7 (xx0212@1)                  D7sus4To (xx0213@1)see just how this had all begun

     Em7                    A9So (x02423@1)I opened my mouth like a dragon's breath

  Em7                      A9I (x02423@1)only spoke truth, but it only brought death

         C (x32010@1)     G (320003@1)       DAnd (xx0232@1)I laid those boys to rest

        C (x32010@1)      G (320003@1)        D7sus4 (xx0213@1)    AmFor (x02210@1)the truth in truth is a terrible jest

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D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)---

          Em7                   A9For (x02423@1)there ain't no road but the road to home

      Em7                    A9There (x02423@1)ain't no crops but the one's you've sown

           C (x32010@1)       G (320003@1)        DAnd (xx0232@1)if you learn one thing from me

           C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)              D7sus4Am
You better guard your tongue like your enemy

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D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)---

Am (x02210@1)                  D7sus4I (xx0213@1)came to ground in a one horse town

       D7 (xx0212@1)                  D7sus4On (xx0213@1)the western rim where the sun go down

        Am (x02210@1)              D7sus4Where (xx0213@1)a branded man might start again

       D7 (xx0212@1)                  D7sus4For (xx0213@1)to ride his rung, for to lose his sin

       Am (x02210@1)                    D7sus4But (xx0213@1)my tongue kept growing, it would not cease

  D7 (xx0212@1)                       D7sus4I (xx0213@1)grew quite weary, couldn't get no release

     Em7                        A9So (x02423@1)I went to the magistrate and turned myself in

Em7                       A9Picked (x02423@1)up a shovel and he made the grin

         C (x32010@1)        G (320003@1)      DAnd (xx0232@1)they planted me by the sea

        C (x32010@1)          G (320003@1)      D7sus4 (xx0213@1) AmNow (x02210@1)the birds of the air make nests on me

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D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)Am (x02210@1)    D7sus4 (xx0213@1)   D7 (xx0212@1)   D7sus4 (xx0213@1)============================================================================