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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

-first letter-A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z #

	C
He's a	wino, tried and true

	F
	Done about everything there is to do

	G
	He worked on freighters, he worked in bars

	C	G
	He worked on farms, 'n he	worked on cars

It was white port, that put that look in his eye

That grown men get when they need to cry

And he sat down on the curb to rest

And his head just fell down on his chest

He said "Every single day it gets

A little bit harder to handle and yet..."

And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered

And the words just rolled off down in the gutter

Well he was elevator man in a cheap hotel

In exchange for the rent on a one room cell

He's old in years beyond his time

Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine

And he said "Son", he always called me son

He said, "Life for you has just begun"

And he told me a story that I heard before

How he fell in love with a Dallas whore

Well he could cut through the years to the very night

When it ended, in a whore house fight

And she turned his last proposal down

In favor of being a girl about town

It's been seventeen years right in line

And he ain't been straight none of the time

Been too many days of fightin' the weather

And too many nights of not being together

So he died........ (guitar for one verse)

Well when they went through his personal affects

In among the stubs from the welfare checks

Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door

An address in Dallas, and nothin' more

The welfare people provided the priest

A couple from the mission down the street

Sang Amasing Grace, and no one cried

'Cept some woman in black way off to the side

We all left and she was standing there

Black veil covering her silver hair

And One-Eyed John said her name was Alice

And she used to be a whore in Dallas

Sing:

	C	F
Let him	roll,	Lord let him roll

	G	C	G
	Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his	soul

	C	F
Let him	roll,	Lord let him roll

	G
	He always said that heaven

	C	G
Was	just a Dallas	Whore....

Here is the tab for the finger pick as simplified as I could get

it. I believe you have to capo up 2 frets to play with the

album. I haven't played with the album on this song in a long

time so I'm not certain. There are 16 dashes to each measure

so timing is somewhat represented.

I have tabbed two stanzas of the pick. It continues the same way

throughout the song. During the guitar solo, emphasize the

melody on the high strings. If anyone tries to learn this from

the tab, I would appreciate any feedback you can give me on how

useable it was as it took me a while to figure out from the

album. If you learn this song, the Randall Knife is very

similar.

NOTE: The "h" above the staff means hammer the note directly

below it.

	G	C	F	G
			h   h   h   h	h

E|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|
B|------------1-3-|------------31--|---1---1---1---1|--0---1-13---3--|
G|----------0-----|----------------|02--02--02--02--|----------------|
D|----------------|--2---2---2-----|--3---3---3---3-|-----------0----|
A|------------0-2-|3---3---3-------|----------------|--2---2-2-------|
E|----------------|----------------|----------------|3---3-----------|

	C	G	C	F	G
	h			h   h   h   h	h

E|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|
B|--1---130---1-3-|------------31--|---1---1---1---1|--0---1-13---3--|
G|----------0-----|----------------|02--02--02--02--|----------------|
D|--2---2---------|--2---2---2-----|--3---3---3---3-|-----------0----|
A|3---3-------0-2-|3---3---3-------|----------------|--2---2-2-------|
E|--------3-------|----------------|----------------|3---3-----------|

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David Byboth - Test Guy Efficient Networks, Inc.

email: davidb@efficient.com (214) 991-3884 x 351