Emmylou Harris – Boy From Tupelo (Guitar)

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by Emmylou Harris Tabbed by Aitch27 Emmylou Harris first recorded her dedication to Elvis Presley on her album 'Red Dirt Girl' (2000). It has been a popular song in her live repertoire over the last 15 years and I have also posted a 'live' transcription of this as it differs. Standard Tuning (EADGBE) Chords: C - x32010 F - 133211 G - 320001 C x 12
C                         F
You don't love me, this I know

                           C
Don't need a bible to tell me so

                           G
I hung around a little too long

                       C
I was good but now I'm gone

         F
Like the buffalo

              C
That boy from Tupelo

            G
Any way the wind can blow

                 C
That's where I'm gonna go

                    F
I'll be gone like a five and dime

             C
It'll be the perfect crime

                      G
Just ask the boy from Tupelo

                     C
He's the king and he ought to know

C  F   F  C   C  G   G  C
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm

                       F
The shoulder I've been leaning on

                               C
Is the coldest place I've ever known

                                 G
There's nothing left for me round here

                        C
Looks like it's time to disappear

         F
Like the buffalo

              C
That boy from Tupelo

                      G
That old wall down in Jericho

                C
Maybelle on the radio

                      F
I'll be gone like the five and dime

                     C
It'll be the perfect crime

                      G
Just ask the boy from Tupelo

                     C
He's the king and he ought to know

C  F   F  C   C  G   G  C
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm

C                       F
You don't love me, this I know

                              C
Don't need a bible to tell me so

                   G
It's a shame and a sin

                        C
Everything I could have been to you

                 F
Your last chance Texaco

                       C
Your sweetheart of the rodeo

                 G
A Juliet to your Romeo

                          C
The border you cross into Mexico

                      F
I'll never understand why or how

                      C
Oh baby, its too late now

                      G
Just ask the boy from Tupelo

                     C
He's the king and he ought to know

C  F   F  C   C  G   G  C
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm