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Canyon Joe by Joe Purdy
Canyon Joe
Capo 3rd fret
Chords used:
C: X32010
Em: 022000
F: 133210
G: 320010
Am: X02210
Picking pattern varies in intro sometimes:
e|----------------------------3---|
B|-------1----------1-------------|
G|-----0----0-------0---0---0-----|
D|---2--------0p2---0-----0-------|
A|--------------------------------|
G|-3--------------3---------------|
Verse picking pattern - again there are variations, but the former tab-ster
wrote
that if you stick to this, you can´t go horribly, fatally wrong:
C Em F G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1-------------0--------------1----------------1---------|
G|-----0--0--0------0----0--0------2----2---2------0-----0---0---|
D|----2-2---2-----2--2-----2-----3---3----3------0---0-----0-----|
A|--3------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------0--------------1---------------3-----------------|
Am F C Am G F
e|----------------------------------------------------------------3-|
B|-------1--------------1------------1--------1-------1-------2-----|
G|-----2---2--2------2----2---2--------0--------2-------0-------3---|
D|----2-2---2------3---3----3------2--------2-------0--------3------|
A|--0----------------------------3--------0-------------------------|
E|---------------1--------------------------------3--------1--------|
After each verse play the intro again and back to the verse.
Intro: G
Verse:
C Em
Well I live in the canyon where the old coyotes howl
F G
They come down from the mountains and the dogs begin to growl
Am F
And they meet up in the darkness, and they fight until the death
C Am G F
When the morning sun is rising I will bury who is left
G Am
Oh-------- Oh
F C G
They call me Canyon Joe
C Em
And I stay in the cabin Where I work my hands to bleed
F G
Swing the hammer to the nail And I swing the axe onto the tree
Am F
And I once cleared these woods Yeah there used to be a path
C Am G F
And now the trees have overgrown just to prove that nothing lasts
G Am
And oh-----oh,
F C G
they call me Canyon Joe
C Em
The old man went crazy He lives high up on the ridge
F G
He used to tell me all the stories of the church house and the bridge
Am F
But the bridge, she washed away your sin The church house- it got burned
C Am G F
'Cause this world has gone angry and some people never learn
G Am
And oh-----oh,
F C G
they call me Canyon Joe
C Em
And I once loved a woman Yes and Georgia was her name
F G
We met out in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain Range
Am F
We saw the world together Least the parts that we love most
C Am G F
She still comes to me in dreams I am still haunted with her ghost
G Am
And oh-----oh,
F C G
they call me Canyon Joe
C Em
And all my thoughts are heavy My beard, it has grown long
F G
And I search the face of six-strings for an old familiar song
Am F
But the chords, they all sound foreign like the places that I've been
C Am G F
So I close my eyes to sleep Tomorrow I will try again
G Am F C G
And oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Singing oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe
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version 2
Capo:3rd fret
Author Floor Demon [a] 1,706. Last edit on Feb 13, 2014
From the album of the same name.
Capo 3rd fret
Chords used:
C: X32010
Em: 022000
F: 133210
G: 320010
Am: X02210
The picking pattern is relatively simple for the most part. There are a couple
of minor variations
on the chords used. For example sometimes the intro and going into the verse
uses a variation
on the G:
e|----------------------------3---|
B|-------1----------1-------------|
G|-----0----0-------0---0---0-----|
D|---2--------0p2---0-----0-------|
A|--------------------------------|
G|-3--------------3---------------|
Sometimes notes are added or taken out, but if you stick to the chord shapes
you can't really go wrong. For the verse in general:
C Em F G
e|---------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------1-------------0--------------1----------------1---------|
G|-----0--0--0------0----0--0------2----2---2------0-----0---0---|
D|----2-2---2-----2--2-----2-----3---3----3------0---0-----0-----|
A|--3------------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------0--------------1---------------3-----------------|
Am F C Am G F
e|----------------------------------------------------------------3-|
B|-------1--------------1------------1--------1-------1-------2-----|
G|-----2---2--2------2----2---2--------0--------2-------0-------3---|
D|----2-2---2------3---3----3------2--------2-------0--------3------|
A|--0----------------------------3--------0-------------------------|
E|---------------1--------------------------------3--------1--------|
Intro: G
Verse:
C Em
Well I live in the canyon where the old coyotes howl
F G
They come down from the mountains and the dogs begin to growl
Am F
And they meet up in the darkness, and they fight until the death
C Am G F
When the morning sun is rising I will bury who is left
Chorus
G Am F C
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----1--------0h1------1-------1---|
G|-------0-----------------2-------0-|
D|---0--------2--------3-------2-----|
A|----------0----------------3-------|
G|-3-----------------1---------------|
G Am
Oh-------- Oh
F C G
They call me Canyon Joe
Then play the intro again and back to the verse.
[Verse 1:Joe Purdy]
Well I live in the canyon
Where the old coyotes howl
And they come down from the mountains
When the dogs begin to growl
And they meet up in the darkness
Where they fight until the death
When the morning sun is rising I will bury who they left
[Chorus]
And oh, they call me Canyon Joe
[Verse 2:Joe Purdy]
And I stay in the cabin
Where I work my hands to bleed
Swing the hammer to the nail
And I swing the axe onto the tree
And I once cleared these woods
Yeah there used to be a path
And now the trees have overgrown
Just to prove that nothing lasts
[Chorus]
[Verse 3:Joe Purdy]
The old man went crazy
He lives high up on the ridge
He used to tell me all the stories of the church house and the bridge
But the bridge, she washed away your sin
The church house- it got burned
'Cause this world has gone angry and some people never learn
[Chorus]
[Verse 4:Joe Purdy]
And I once loved a woman
Yes and Georgia was her name
We met out in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain Range
We saw the world together
Least the parts that we love most
She still comes to me in dreams
I am still haunted with her ghost
[Chorus]
[Verse 5:Joe Purdy]
And all my thoughts are heavy
My beard, it has grown long
And I search the face of six-strings for an old familiar song
But the chords, they all sound foreign like the places that I've been
So I close my eyes to sleep
Tomorrow I will try again
[Outro]
And oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe
Singing oh, oh, they call me Canyon Joe
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