Grievous Angel

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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 03:52:20 GMT
From: Rick L 

 
To: guitar@olga.net, cowpie@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Grievous Angel Emmylou Harris Chords/Lyrics

Emmylou Harris    Grievous Angel  written by Gram Parsons
                                             Thomas O Brown

Mike Bowden     bass
Steve Fishell   steel guitar
Don Johnson     keyboards/background vocals
Frank Reckard   guitar
Barry Tashian   guitar/background vocals
John Ware       drums



 B                               
 E     
 B
Won't you scratch my itch sweet Annie Rich

 B              
 F#      
 B
And welcome me back to town

 B                              
 E              
 B
Come out on your porch or I'll step into your parlour
         
 C#                       
 F#
And I'll tell you how it all went down

 B                                                
 B7   
 E
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      
 B                           
 E
And a good saloon in every single town
    
 E          
 F#                      
 B
And I remember something that you once told me
    
 E                 
 F#              
 B
And I'll be damned if it did not come true

 E               
 F#            
 B     
 Ebm  
 Abm
Twenty thousand roads I went down, down, down
    
 E                
 F#                    
 B
And they all lead me straight back home to you

 B                            
 E     
 B
We flew straight across that river bridge,
           
 F#        
 B
Last night half past two

 B                               
 E                
 B      
 C#
The switchman waved his lantern goodbye and good day as we
             
 F#
Went rolling through

 B                                     
 B7       
 E
Billboards and truckstops pass by the grievous angel

 B                
 F#                  
 B
And now   I know just what I have to do
        
 Ebm            
 E       
 F#       
 B
Cause I headed West to grow up with the country

 Abm                   
 F#                  
 B
Across those prairies with those waves of grain
      
 Ebm                 
 E      
 F#        
 B
And I saw my devil, and I saw my deep blue sea
      
 E                      
 F#          
 E           
 F#     
 B
And I thought about a calico bonnet from Cheyenne to Tennesee


SOLO



 B                            
 E           
 B
The news I could bring I met up with the king
               
 F#          
 B
On his head an amphetamine crown
                                
 E         
 B
He talked about unbuckling that old bible belt
    
 C#                         
 F#
And headed out for some desert town

 B                                             
 B7      
 E
Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels
      
 B                           
 E
And a good saloon in every single town
    
 E          
 F#                      
 B
And I remember something that you once told me
    
 E                 
 F#              
 B
And I'll be damned if it did not come true

 E               
 F#           
 B     
 Ebm   
 Abm
Twenty thousand roads I went down  down  down
    
 E                
 F#                    
 B
And they all lead me straight back home to you

 E               
 F#           
 B    
 Ebm  
 Abm
Twenty thousand roads I went down down down
    
 E                
 F#                    
 B
And they all lead me straight back home to you

 Emmylou Harris "Last Date"
 Warner Brothers Records 1982
 Wait And See Music (BMI) 1974