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Townes Van Zandt : Flyin' Shoes
1978


  1. Loretta
  2. No Place To Fall
  3. Flyin' Shoes
  4. Who Do You Love?
  5. Dollar Bill Blues
  6. Snake Song

Loretta

E
A
E
Well Loretta she's my barroom girl
A
E
Wears them sevens on her sleeves
E
A
E
Dances like a diamond shines
A
E
Tells me lies I love to believe
B7
Her age is always twenty two
A
E
Her laughin' eyes a hazel hue
E
A
E
Spends my money like water falls
A
E
Loves me like I want her to
E
A
E
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Well Loretta won't you say to me Darlin' put your guitar on Have a little shot of booze Play a blue and wailin' song My guitar rings a melody My guitar sings "Loretta's fine" Long and lazy, blonde and free I can have her any time Sweetest at the break of day Prettiest in the setting sun She don't cry when I can't stay Least not till she's all alone Loretta I won't be gone long Keep your dancin' slippers on Keep me on your mind a while I'll be back babe, to make you smile


No Place To Fall

Capo:
II
Intro: instrumental verse
D
Dmaj7
D7
If I had no place to fall
G
D
And I needed to
Em
G
C/g
G
Could I count on you
D
To lay me down?
I'd never tell you no lies I don't believe it's wise You got pretty eyes Won't you spin me round?
Em
A
I ain't much of a lover, it's true
Em
F#m
I'm here then I'm gone
D
E
And I'm forever blue
A
But I'm sure wanting you
Skies full of silver and gold Try to hide the sun But it can't be done Least not for long And if we help each other grow While the light of day Smiles down our way Then we can't go wrong Time, she's a fast old train She's here then she's gone And she won't come again Won't you take my hand
Instrumental verse
If I had no place to fall And I needed to Could I count on you To lay me down?


Flyin' Shoes

G
Am
Days full of rain
D
C
G
Sky's comin' down again
F
C
Am
I get so tired
G
Am
Of these same old blues
G
Am
Same old song
D
C
G
Baby, it won't be long
F
C
Am
'Fore I be tyin' on
G
Am
My flyin' shoes
G
Am
Flyin' shoes
F
C
Am
Till I be tyin' on
G
Am
My flyin' shoes
Spring only sighed Summer had to be satisfied Fall is a feelin' that I just can't lose I'd like to stay Maybe watch a winter day Turn the green water To white and blue Flyin' shoes Flyin' shoes Till I be tyin' on My flyin' shoes The mountain moon Forever sets too soon Bein' alone is all the hills can do Alone and then Her silver sails again And they will follow In their flyin' shoes Flyin' shoes They will follow in their Flyin' shoes Days full of rain Skies comin' down again I get so tired Of the same old blues Same old song Baby, it won't be long Till I be tyin' on My flyin' shoes Flyin' shoes Till I be tyin' on My flyin' shoes


Who Do You Love?

<Bo Diddley>
G
I walked forty-seven miles of barbed wire Used a cobra snake for a neck tie Well, I got me a house on roadside Made out of rattlesnake hide
Well, I got me a chimney made on top Made out of human skull Come on, take a little walk with me, Arleen Tell me, who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Who do you love? Got a tombstone set and graveyard mind Just thirty-one, and I don't don't mine dying Who do you love? ... Well the night was black and the sky was blue And down the alley an ice wagon flew Door bumped open and somebody screamed You shoulda heard just what I seen Who do you love? ... Well, I ride around, use a rattlesnake whip Take it easy baby, don't give me no lip Who do you love? ... Arleen took me by the hand Said, alright daddy, I understand Who do you love? ...


Dollar Bill Blues

Capo:
II
Am
Dm
If I had a dollar bill
Am
Yes, I believe I surely will
Em
I'll go to town and drink my fill
Am
Early in the morning
Darling she's a red haired thing Man, she makes my legs to sing Gonna buy her a diamond ring Early in the morning Mother was a golden girl I slit her throat just to get her pearls Cast myself into a whirl Before a bunch of swine It's a long way down the Harlan road Busted back and a heavy load Won't get through to save my soul Early in the morning I've always been a gambling man I've rolled them bones with either hand Seven is a promised land Early in the morning Whiskey 'd be my dying bed Tell me where to lay my head Not with me is all she said Early in the morning If I had a dollar bill Yes I believe I surely will I'll go to town and drink my fill Early in the morning


Snake Song

Tuning: DADGBE (Drop D)
Dm
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Dm
You can't hold me, I'm too slippery
I do no sleepin', I get lonely
Am
Dm
You can touch me, if you want to
Dm
I got poison, I just might bite you
Dm
Lie in circles, on the sunlight
Am
Dm
Shine like diamonds, on a dark night
Am
Dm
Ain't no mercy, in my smilin'
Dm
Only fangs and, sweet beguiling
Instrumental
Dm
Future, he don't, try to find me
Am
Dm
Skin I been through, dies behind me
Am
Dm
Solid hollow, wrapped in hatred
Dm
Not a drop of, venom wasted
Instrumental
Dm
You can slip in, try to find me
Hold your breath and, flat deny me
Am
Dm
It makes no difference, to my thinkin'
Dm
I'll be here when, you start sinkin'