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Taneytown by Steve Earle
Taneytown
Am C G Am G Am Em G
Am C G Am
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown
Am G Am Em G
To see what I could see
Am C G Am
My mama told me never go, I?m damned near twenty-two years old
Am G Am Em G
Some times I feel this hollow swallowing me.
Ma went off to Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers, I snuck off after dark.
It?s a long way down the Canny Road, the stars were bright & the moon was low,
Down where the blacktop highway starts.
Chorus:
I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,
I went down to see what I could see.
Now everybody stared at me, you?d think that they ain?t never seen,
A colored boy before.
Well, they jumped at me and they called me names,
they?d a whupped me sure, but the sheriff came,
I slipped off and ran through the drygoods store.
I ran down Division Street, but some of them boys followed me,
Down to the railroad track.
There was four of them & I came five, but I got my old Randall knife,
I cut that boy & I never did look back.
Chorus
Across the fields & woods I run, like a bullet from a rabbit gun,
Back home to my bed.
Ma came back from Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers,
Boy you look like hell, was all she said.
A month went by without a word, till someone down in the hollow heard,
About that boy they hung.
He begged those men to spare his life, but I dropped my bloody Randall knife,
He picked it up, so they thought he was the one.
Repeat chorus twice, second time insert last line, "I ain?t going back there anymore."
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version 2
Tuning: Standard
Intro (Clean):
e|----------|----------|---------|---------|-----------|---------|--------|
B|----------|----------|---------|---------|-----------|---------|--------|
G|------2---|-----0----|---0-----|-----2---|-------0---|---0-----|--------|
D|----2-----|---2------|-0---0---|---2-----|----2---2--|-0---0---|--------|
A|--0-----2-|-3------3-|------2--|-0-----2-|-3---3---3-|------2--|-0------|
E|----------|----------|-------3-|---------|-----------|-------3-|--------|
Incidental Lick (Dist.):
Em
e|-----------|----|
B|---1-0---0-|----|
G|-------2---|-2--|
D|-----------|----|
A|-----------|----|
E|-----------|----|
Kick on some overdrive for the rest of the song, which is all played like this:
Am C G Am C G
e|---0---0----|-0---0-|-3---3---------|-0---0----|-0---0-|-3---3---------|
B|---1---1----|-1---1-|-0---0h1p0(h1)-|-1---1----|-1---1-|-0---0h1p0(h1)-|
G|---2---2----|-0---0-|-0---0---------|-2---2----|-0---0-|-0---0---------|
D|---2---2----|-2---2-|-0---0---------|-2---2----|-2---2-|-0---0---------|
A|---0---0--2-|-3---3-|-2---2---------|-0---0--2-|-3---3-|-2---2---------|
E|------------|-------|-3---3---------|----------|-------|-3---3---------|
Am Em (With incidental)
e|-0--0--0-0-|-0--0--0--0--|
B|-1--1--1-1-|-0--0--0--0--|
G|-2--2--2-2-|-0--0--0--0--|
D|-2--2--2-2-|-2--2--2--2--|
A|-0--0--0-0-|-2--2--2--2--|
E|-----------|-0--0--0--0--|
This progression repeats for every verse and chorus. There's a solo in there somewhere
that I don't know, and it's the same chords under that as well. Kill the distortion for
the last verse, which is softer. I'm not sure if the intro tab here is perfect, but it
sounds good and is at least very close to the way Steve plays it on El Corazón. Anyway,
have fun with this great song.
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