If You See Her, Say Hello
New York version
Open E/D Tuning
Open E/D Tuning
D Mary wore three lengths of chain, A D Ev'ry length was Jesus name, G A D [fill] Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on, A D [fill] Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord, G A D [fill] Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on. Matthew,*) Mark and Luke and John, All them prophets so good and gone, Keep-a your hand on that plow, hold on, Oh, Lord, Oh, Lord,
C F C Bad news, bad news come to me where I sleep, G G6 G7 G G6 G7 Turn, turn, turn again. C F Sayin' one of your friends is in trouble deep, Dm F G G6 G7 G G6 G7 Turn, turn to the rain and the wind. Tell me the trouble, Tell once to my ear. Joliet prison and ninety-nine years. Oh what's the charge of how this came to be? Manslaughter in the highest of degree. I sat down and wrote the best words I could write,
C F C G C F C /b /Bb A7 Well, I don't know why I love you like I do D7 G C Nobody in the world can get along with you C F C /b /Bb A7 You got the ways of a devil sleeping in a lion's den D7 G C I come home last night you wouldn't even let me in. E F Oh sometimes you're as sweet as anybody want to be D7 G (n.c.)
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/c /b D/a G C I am a man of constant sorrow /b D G /c-b D/a I've seen trouble all my days G C I'll say goodbye to Colorado D G Where I was born and partly raised. Your mother says I'm a stranger My face you'll never see no more But there's one promise, darling: I'll see you on God's golden shore. Through this open world I'm about to ramble Through ice and snow, sleet and rain I'm about to ride that morning railroad
Intro: |:C . . . |. . G C :| |C . . . |. . . . D |G . . . | |C . . . |F . . . |C . . G |C C I was born in Dixie in a boomer shack G C Just a little shanty by the railroad track C Freight train whistle taught me how to cry G C hummin' of the driver was my lullaby I got the freight train blues D G
B Like the lion tears the flesh off of a man So can a woman who passes herself off as a male They sang "Danny Boy" at his funeral and the Lord's Prayer The preacher talked about Christ betrayed E It's like the earth just opened and swallowed him up He reached too high, was thrown back to the ground B You know what they say about bein' nice to the right people on the way up Sooner or later you gonna meet them comin' down
B G#m Yeah, there ain't no goin' back E
Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 17 1966
Dropped C tuning (C-A-d-g-b-e’)
Capo 5th fret (sounding key F major)
Intro:
A Lately I've been having evil dreams, E A I wake up in a cold blue glare I run the tape back in my mind, E wonderin' if I took the wrong road somewhere. D Searching for the truth the way God designed it, Well, the real truth is that I may be afraid to find it
A G D A Well I need a woman, all right G D A Need a woman, every night. D To be with me and know me as I am, To show me the kind of love that don't have to be condemned E A