Tabbed by: Adam B.



Note: This is one of my favorite songs, so I decided to tab it out. 
      Nothing special, just two different chord progressions throughout
      the whole song. I didn't bother with the weird bass lines.
      ENJOY!!!

SLAVIN? AWAY

      Am            C
Slavin? away, all for you my love,

      F
and I?ve nothing to show for it

              Am
?cept my dusty old book full of pictures.

      Am              C         
Dusty old book, tell me a story

         F
?bout how I wasn?t so tired

               Am
from all my slavin? away.


Then play this chord progression a few times
(listen to the song and it will make sense):

A , F# , D , E , A , F , E , A

*Weird bass line*

Am
I ran off,

     C
put on corduroy knickers that I got from the coal shoveling kid

F
and hitch-hiked in a rickety old Ford,

Am
hitch-hiked in a rattley old Norton side-car

Am                      C
?down strange roads, in the purring rain?, as the poet put it,

F
on up to St. Paul

Am
on a cold day in the middle of the fall.



And they picked me up
for not wearing a dress
and suspended my sentence
if I wore something with a strap that was pink
and I scrubbed up good on somebody?s sink.
So now I?ll catch the Canadian Pacific and not be too specific,
to somewhere up north,
and get into lumber and slumber when I like
and in the spring ride down into Cheyenne on my bike.

**HAPPY PART**
A , F# , D , E , A , F , E , A

**Weird bass line stuff**

Then play the same "Slavin Away" chord progression (Am , C, F, Am ) for the 
spoken word, and up until the happy part and you play this:

Instrumental (happy part): A , F# , D , E , A , F , E , A

Crazy dramatic part: Am , C , F , Am

A             F#
I could see her, looking in the mirror at me

D                  E            A
wondering if it wasn?t plain for everyone t?see?

F                  E            A
nothing ever seemed to turn out how it might be.

***continue playing same chord progression until the grandma starts talking***