Grievous Angel by Emmylou Harris #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # 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 D#m G#m 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 D#m E F# B Cause I headed West to grow up with the country G#m F# B Across those prairies with those waves of grain D#m 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 D#m G#m Twenty thousand roads I went down down down E F# B And they all lead me straight back home to you E F# B D#m G#m 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 www.TAB6.com