Doc Watson – Make Me Down A Pallet On Your Floor (Guitar)
Capo 2
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Chords
live broadcast Blue Sky Bluegrass 1981
stdd tuning
[Intro]
F F C C
F F G G7
C E7 F F
C F G C C7
[Chorus]
F C C7 Make me down a pallet on your floor F G Make me down a pallet on your floor C E7 F Honey, make it down, make it soft and low C F G C C7 Then maybe my good gal she won't know
[Verse 1]
F C I'm goin' up the country through that sleet an' snow F G G7 I'm goin' up the country through that sleet an' snow C E7 F I'm goin' up the country through that sleet an' snow C F G C C7 And there ain't no telling just how fur I'll go
[Verse 2]
F C Get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee F G Get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee C E7 F I'll get my breakfast here and my dinner in Tennessee C F G C C7 I told you I's a-comin' so you'd better look for me
[Chorus]
F C Make me down a pallet on your floor F G Make me down a pallet on your floor C E7 F Honey, make it down, make it soft and low C F G C C7 Then maybe my good gal she won't know
[Instrumental]
F C C7
F G
C E7 F
C F G C C7
[Verse 3]
F C You know that I can't lay down on your bed F G G7 Oh you know that I can't lay down on your bed C E7 F Now honey I can't lay down 'cross your pretty bed C F G C C7 'cause my good woman she might kill me dead
[Verse 4]
F C And don't you let my good gal catch you here F G G7 Hey don't you let my good gal catch you here C E7 F If you do, she might shoot you, cut and stop you too C F G C 'Cause there ain't no tellin' what all she might do.
[Chorus]
F C Make me down a pallet on your floor F G Make me down a pallet on your floor C E7 F Honey, make it down, make it soft and low C F G C C7 Then maybe my good gal she won't know
[Instrumental]
F C C7
F G G7
C E7 F
C F G C C7
[Verse 5]
F C The way I've been sleepin' my back and shoulders' tired F G The way I've been sleepin' my back and shoulders' tired C E7 F Well the way I've been a'sleepin' my back and shoulders' tired C F G C C7 I think I'll turn to try sleepin' while on my side
[Chorus]
F C Make me down a pallet on your floor F G Make me down a pallet on your floor C E7 F Honey, make it down, make it soft and low C F G C C7 Then maybe my good gal she won't know
[Instrumental]
F C
F G G7
C E7 F
C F G C C7
[Outro]
F C C7 Make me down a pallet on your floor F G G7 Make me down a pallet on your floor C E7 F Honey, make it over close behind the door C F G C Make it where your good man'll never go