NOTE: Dave capos the 1st fret (Fm = Em, etc.), while Gil capos the 8th (Fm = Am, etc.)
[Main riff]
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------3---1-----------1-3-1--------------|
e|-1-----------1-3-4---------------------------------------4---3--|
[Intro]
G# D#4 F# C#
Bb7 -
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
[Verse]
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Met her on a harvest moon, once upon a time in the mid-
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
west
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
She told me as we stole away, that she was freer than all the
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
rest
[Pre-chorus]
G# D# F# C#
With her hair cut like a farmboy and her cards so close to her breast
G# D# F# C# Bb
Just how much harm she could do me... No, I never would have guessed
[Chorus]
F Bb F Bb
Don't go chasing wild ponies; they're half crazy and they run
F D# Bb Bbsus2 Bb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D# F
after thinking it was all in fun
[Verse]
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
We came upon a boomer shack; she broke the windows just
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
because
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Later along the railroad track, she laid me down-- that's how she
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
was
[Pre-chorus]
G# D# F# C#
With the first rush of the freight train, there was rain on the high summer corn
G# D# F# C# Bb
"Oh, it's just a game," she told me; I said, "No, I am reborn"
[Chorus]
F Bb F Bb
Don't go chasing wild ponies; they're half crazy when they run
F D# Bb Bbsus2 Bb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D# F
after thinking it was all in fun
[Interlude]
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
hmm- mmm, all in
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
fun
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
(Dave plays the following solo over the interlude chords above.
Tab is relative to a capo on the 1st fret)
E|----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------------------------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------2---0------------------------------|
e|-0-----------0-2-3-------------------------------3-------2------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-----------------------------0-2-2/4-2-0---0-2-2/4-2-0-----------|
D|---------------0-2-------2/4-------------4-------------4-2p0-2p0-|
A|/2-----------2---------------------------------------------------|
e|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------7----7--7----------|
B|---0-7--8-8--10-10--8-7-10-8--8-10--(10)-----10-8-7-8-|
G|-0----------------------------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------------|
e|------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------7--------------7----7----------------------|
B|-7-7-8-10----10-7-8--8-10---10---10-7-----------------|
G|--------------------------------------9-7-------------|
D|------------------------------------------9-7\4-0-----|
A|--------------------------------------------------2---|
e|----------------------------------------------------0-|
[Verse]
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
As for her whereabouts, I hear she's living in Baton
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Rouge
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
Giving all those Creole men the short-haired woman
Fm G# Bb Bbm C5
blues, ooooooh ooooooooh
[Outro]
G# D# F# C#
the short-haired woman
G# D# F# C# Bb
blues
F Bb F Bb
F D# Bb Bbsus2 Bb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D# F
after thinking it was all in fun
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| / Slide up
| p Pull-off
| (n) Ghost note
| \ Slide down
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