1. E. Watson
2. Foregone
3. Burying Davy
4. I 4 U & U 4 Me
5. Row Jimmy
6. Sonnet
1. E. Watson
Originally tabbed by: Daysleeper_05
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INTRO
Fill 1 x4
VERSE 1
Em A G
The air all painted pallid grey, the storm was comin' in
Dsus2 /C /B Em (fill 2)
Folks were lining out in all directions
Em A G
Me an Holt and Henry Short were pitchin' on the skiff,
Dsus2 /C /B Em (fill 2)
Trying to make it home before the night
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
And the grey waves were rollin',
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
Bold the brave, brave ocean
G Em (Fill 1)x2
And rolled us suckers in
VERSE 2
Em A G
Well I don't keep to goings on, I tend to stick with kin
Dsus2 /C /B Em (Fill 2)
But Watson had it in from the beginning
Em A G
He built that house on Chatham bend, a whitewashed knotted pine
Dsus2 /C /B Em (Fill 2)
Ninety acres furrowed for the cane
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
And he drove it down from Georgia
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
His dad a martyred soldier
G Em (Fill 1) /G
In the war between the States
CHORUS
A G Dsus2 /D /C /B
Lord, bring down the flood
A G Dsus2
Wash away the blood
/C /B Em
And drown these everglades
/C /B Em
And put us in our place
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# C
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
G Em (Fill 1)x4
We layed him in his grave
VERSE 3
Em A G
Till I'm dust I'll never know why he came ashore
Dsus2 /C /B Em (Fill 2)
With all those killers gathered on the shorelines
Em A G
Kicking holes in ugly mud, with trigger fingers pinched
Dsus2 /C /B Em (Fill 2)
A brace of rifles bristled in the wind
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
And we towed his body northbound
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# A
And buried him all face down
G Em (Fill 1) /G
With a good view into hell
CHORUS
A G Dsus2 /D /C /B
Lord, bring down the flood
A G Dsus2
Wash away the blood
/C /B Em
And drown these everglades
/C /B Em
And put us in our place
[ch]Bm/B[/ch] /F# /B /F# C
(Fill 3)
We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
G Em (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
Em Em (Fill 1)
We layed him in his grave
Em (Fill 1)x3 Em
We layed him in his gra____ve
2. Foregone
CAPO 2
INTRO
C G F C
VERSE 1
C G F C
Here arise and say it's a honey
C G F C
All this light that daybreak brings
C G F C
And the ancient bands that brung me
C G F C
To the bed where you're sleeping safe
(C, G, F, C) x2
VERSE 2
C G F C
And we had agreed on Henry
C G F C
Long before a flutter felt
C G F C
And so it will be till memory
C G F C
Makes a shadow of ourselves
CHORUS
Am F
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
Am F
All would lead to believe that it's not
C G F C
But it's foregone
C G F C
It's foregone
VERSE 3
C G F C
Can it be that this is given
C G F C
This awaking from long dark night
C G F C
Of a soul so on and wizened
C G F C
Sleep away to set to rights
CHORUS
Am F
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
Am F
All would lead to believe that it's not
C G F C
But it's foregone
C G F C
It's foregone
C G F C
It's foregone
CHORUS
Am F
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
Am F
All would lead to believe that it's not
Am F
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
C G F C
It's foregone
C G F C
It's foregone
OUTRO
C G F C
It's foregone
C G F C
It's foregone
C G F C
Carry on
C G F C
Ooh carry on
3. Burying Davy
INTRO
F C Eb F Fm F Cm
VERSE 1
F
Bring out your weepin’ weeds
Eb
Put on your ten-pint bowlers
C
Bring out your weepin' weeds
CHORUS
Fm Fm7
We’re buryin’ Davy
F
We’re buryin’ Davy.
Fm F Fm F Fm
VERSE 2
F C
Gather the screws and spades
Eb
Oil up your mud-brown slicker
F Cm
Gather the screws and spades
CHORUS
Fm Fm7
We’re buryin’ Davy
F
We’re buryin’ Davy.
Fm F Fm F Fm
VERSE 3
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F C
Who’ll plane the old pine bows?
Eb
Who’ll set his legs uncrooked?
F C
Who’ll plane the old pine bows?
CHORUS
Fm Fm7
For buryin’ Davy
F
For buryin’ Davy.
Eb F Fm
VERSE 4
F C
Mother wept no tears
Eb
Brother grew unruly
F C
Mother wept no tears
CHORUS
Fm Fm7
At buryin’ Davy
Fm
At buryin’ Davy.
VERSE 5
F
Bring out your weepin’ weeds
Eb
Put on your ten-pint bowlers
C
Bring out your weepin' weeds
CHORUS
Fm Fm7
We’re buryin’ Davy
F
We’re buryin’ Davy.
4. I 4 U & U 4 Me
Originally tabbed by: Daysleeper_05
DROP D, CAPO 4
INTRO
One, two, one two three four!
D5 x4
VERSE 1
D5
You're all made a tattered heel and you're the only constant all my life
A D5
We could go together some and we could get each other through the night
D5
We are one and we are two and we are simply wicked to a T
A D5
Never a better thing were said than I for you and you were made for me
D5
Well I heard that your plans were all fouled up
D5
And I heard that you hit the wall
A D5
Hit your smarting arms and skinned your knee!
CHORUS
G D5
Will you drop your sling and stones?
G D5
You can't make it on your own!
A D5
You see? It's I for you and you were made for me
VERSE 2
D5
When you were young, your parents said
D5
You act like that you do it on your own time
A
So you grew up crooked, bent,
D5
So barely that you couldn't walk a straight line
Well here we are, right where we came, and it's
D5
Pretty sticky wicked, isn't it dear?
A D5
A few missteps along the way but I'm really pretty happy to be here
D5
So this a toast to the old town drunk, to the bums of the broadway bridge!
A D5
Raise a glass to the bones of the circle K!
CHORUS
G D5
Will you drop your sling and stones?
G D5
You can't make it on your own!
A D5
You see, It's I for you and you were made for me
A D5
Will you see, It's I for you and you were made for me
VERSE 3
D5
Well I heard that your plans were all fouled up and I
D5
Heard that you hit the wall
A D5
Hit your smarting hearts and skinned your knee
CHORUS
G D5
Will you drop your slinging' stones
G D5
You can't make it on your own
A D5
You see? It's I for you and you were made for me
A D5
You see? it's I for you and you were made for me
OUTRO
D5
And you were made for me
D5
And it's I for you and you were made to be for me
5. Row Jimmy
VERSE 1
A G D A
Julie catch a rabbit by his tail
Bm A G D
Come back steppin' like to walk on air
D A
Get back home where you belong
E A E A E A
And don't you run off no more.
VERSE 2
A G D A
Don't hang your head, let the two time roll
Bm A G D
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
D A
Ask the time baby I don't know
E D
Come back later, gonna let it show.
CHORUS
A E D
I say row Jimmy row,
A E D
Gonna get there, I don't know,
A E D
Seems a common way to go,
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
VERSE 3
A G D A
Here's a half dollar if you dare
Bm A G D
Double twist when you land on air,
D A
Look at Julie down below,
E D
The levee doin' the do-pas-o.
CHORUS
A E D
I say row Jimmy row,
A E D
Gonna get there, I don't know,
A E D
Seems a common way to go,
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
VERSE 3
A G D A
Broken heart don't feel so bad,
Bm A G D
You ain't got much of what you thought you had.
D A
Rock your baby to and fro
E D
Not too fast and not too slow.
CHORUS
A E D
I say row Jimmy row,
A E D
Gonna get there, I don't know,
A E D
Seems a common way to go,
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
BRIDGE
A Bm A D
That's the way it's been in town,
A G D
Ever since they brought the jukebox down.
A Bm A D
Broken hearts don't buy no more,
E D
Not the way it's done before.
CHORUS
A E D
I say row Jimmy row,
A E D
Gonna get there, I don't know,
A E D
Seems a common way to go,
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
CHORUS
A E D
I say row Jimmy row,
A E D
Gonna get there, I don't know,
A E D
Seems a common way to go,
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
OUTRO
A E A
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
6. Sonnet
Originally tabbed by: Unregistered
VERSE 1
E
Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I
B
Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat
E
Where every rising swell
B
Would sweep us at our will across the sky
VERSE 2
E
Then tempest never, or weather dire
B
Could ever make our blissful living cease
E
No, but abiding in a steady, blessed peace
B
Together in harmony
BRIDGE
C#m A
And Lady Vanna and Lagia then
E
She who looms the thirty best
B
Would join us at the enchanter’s behest
VERSE 3
E
And there we’d talk of love without an end
B
To make those ladies happy in the sky
E B
With Lapo enchanted too, and you and I
