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"Twisted Laurel" - Performed by Robert Earl Keen
From the Album The Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions
Written by The Red Clay Ramblers' Tommy Thompson
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Tabbed by: JamesS
E-mail: [email protected]
Tuning: Standard EADGBE Capo 3rd Fret Key of A#
Chords used below indicate form only and not actual notes played
Lyrics taken from REK's version may differ slightly from original version
Capo G C D D7 A Em
3 --------|----3------0-----2---2----0-----0-----|
3 --------|----0------1-----3---1----2-----0------|
3 --------|----0------0-----2---2----2-----0-------|
3 --------|----0------2-----0---0----2-----2--------|
3 --------|----2------3-----x---x----0-----2---------|
3 --------|----3------x-----x---x----x-----0----------|
Intro C D G Em C D G
C D G Em
Just Across the Blue Ridge Where the High Meadows Lay
C D G
And the Galax Spreads Through The New Mown Hay
C D G Em
There's a Rusty Iron Bridge 'Cross a Shady Ravine
A D
Where the Hard Road Ends and Turns to Clay
C G Em
With a Suitcase in His Hand The Lonesome Boy Stands
A D D7
Gazin' at the River Slidin' by Beneath his Feet
C D G Em
But the Dark Water Springs through the Black Rocks and Flows
C D G
Outta' sight Where the Twisted Laurel Grows
C D G Em C D G
C D G Em
Past the Coal-tipple Towns in the Cold December Rain
C D G
Into Charleston Runs the New River Train
C D G Em
Where the Hillsides are Brown, and the Broad Valleys Stained
A D
By a Hundred Thousand Lives of Work and Pain
C G Em
In a Tar-paper Shack out of Town Across the Track
A D D7
Stands an Old Used-up Man Trying to Call Something Back
C D G Em
But his Old Memories Stained Like the City in the Haze
C D G
And his Days have Run Together Like the Rain
C D G Em
And the Dark Water Springs Through the Black Rocks and Flows
C D G
Out of Sight Where the Twisted Laurel Grows
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| / slide up
| \ slide down
| h hammer-on
| p pull-off
| ~ vibrato
| + harmonic
| x Mute note
| b Bend
| pb Pre-bend
| br Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend
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