Billy Strings – Maggie Walker Blues (Guitar)

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Billy Plays A Lot Of Walks And Lics In Between, But This Should Be The Main Cords. Play The Alternate Bass Line On B7 Rythem Goes Boom-chuck

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My parents raised me tenderly,

     B7               E
They had no child but me.

                        A
My mind being placed on rambling,

                     E
With them I couldn't agree

Just to leave my aged parents

    B7              E
And them no more to see.

E
There was a wealthy gentleman

    B7                    E
Who lived there very near by.

                  A
He had a beautiful daughter,

                 E
On her I cast an eye.

                    A
She was so tall and slender,

                 E
So pretty and so fair.

There never was a girl in this whole wide world

     B7              E
With her I could compare.

E
I asked her if it differed

   B7                 E
If I crossed over the plain.

                       A
She said, "It makes no difference

                     E
If you never return again."

We too shook hands and parted,

      B7             E
And I left my girl behind.

E
I started out in this wide world

        B7            E
Strange faces for to see.

                    A
I met little Maggie Walker

                          E
And she fell in love with me.

                           A
Her pockets all lined with greenback

                        E
And her labor I'll grow old,

Now if you'll consent to marry me

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I'll say I'll roam no more.

E
I traveled out one morning,

       B7                E
To the salt works I were bound.

                        A
And when I reached the salt works

                       E
I viewed the city all around.

                    A
Work and money were plentiful

                     E
And the girls all So Kind

But the only object to my heart

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Was a girl in Tennessee.

E
I traveled out one morning

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Down on the market square.

                        A
The mail train being on arrival,

                  E
I met the carrier there.

               A
He handed me a letter,

                  E
So's I could understand

That the girl I left in Tennessee

    B7              E
Had married another man.

E
I drove on down a little further

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And found that it was true.

                      A
I turned my horse and buggy around

                          E
But I didn't know what to do.

                        A
I turned all around and about there --

                  E
Bad company I'll resign;

I'll drive all about from town to town

        B7            E
For the girl I left behind.