Thirsty Boots

by Eric Anderson, Judy Collins · posted by WaltP

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b or ': Half-step bend
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bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
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Tab

THIRSTY BOOTS
Eric Anderson
Judy Collins
Key: A


6        6   6   6  -5  5 -4   4
You've long been on the o-pen road. 
4        4    4    4   5 -5   6
You've been sleep-ing in the rain.
6      6  6   6   -5   5  -4   4
From dirt-y words and mud-dy cells, 
5      -5     5     -4    4    5 -4
your clothes are smeared and stained,
6    6    6  6   6   -5   5  -4   4
But the dirt-y words the mud-dy cells 
4      4  4    5    -5  6
will soon be judged in-sane.
6  6   6 -5-4 4   7     7    6  
So on-ly stop to rest your-self 
5     -5   5  -4  4 -45-4 
and you'll be off a- gain.


Chorus:

6      6   4    4    7   -7  -6
Then take off your thirst-y boots 
6     6  5-4 4 -56-5
and stay for a-while. 
-5       5   5   6   6  5-4 -4
You're feet are hot and wear-y, 
-4   5  -5  6  -4
from a dust-y mile,
6    6  6  6  6   -9   8  -8 7
And may-be I can make you laugh. 
6   4  4  5 -56-5  
May-be I can try.
-5     5   6   6   6  5 -4  4 
Just look-ing for the ev-e-ning 
-4  -4   -4  -4  5-4 4    4
for the morn-ing in your eyes.



Then tell me of the one's you've seen 
as far as you can see.
Across the plains from field to town 
a-marchin' to be free,
And of the rusted prison gates 
that tumble by degree
Like laughin' children, one by one, 
they look like you and me.

(Chorus, harmonica interlude, chorus)

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