The picking/strumming and timing to this song can be a bit odd and/or difficult which is why I flagged it as
intermediate. Listen to the track a few times and you should be able to pick it up.
I liked using this version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQkhbf4BtrE
When I write A-B-C I just mean the individual notes. So strum the A string open, then the A string on the
2nd fret, and then A string on the 3rd fret into the C chord. If you listen to the song you can get a better
sense of what it sounds like.
G C9 G
C9 G
Letters written in vain
C9
I dont care if you know
G
Pour my tears down a drain
C9
Let them seep in slow
G
Ohh, and we can dance around what happened
Am A-B- C
Stay the music soft and low
C G
And you can be all kinds of emotional
C9 G
Drive a car to your town
C9
Twenty hours down South
G
Tractor trailers in the snow
C9
Highway men are a-plowing Ohhhhh
G
And Im a man of constant sorrow
Am A-B- C
Let the night come soft and low
C G
And you can be all kinds of emotional
G C9 G C9
G Am A-B-C G
Am A-B- C
Take my ink and take my blood
C (Depending on which version, these first 2 lines are repeated)
Take the time to wish me luck
G
Wish I was gone, wish I was dust
G (one strum)
Wish I was gone, wish I was dust
G
On the porch to your house
C9
With this letter in hand
G
All your candles burnt out
C9
Oh my good man
G
I watch you dance around in circles
Am A-B- C
With your new man in the glow
C G
And you can be all kinds of emotional
C9 G
Oh, and you can be all kinds of emotional
