Jason Isbell – Palmetto Rose (Guitar)

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[Verses]

A
Cross stitched pillow where the head rest went
[tab]D
Said his cab was his orneriest friend

A
Left him jumping like trees in the wind

A
Thought he had the red lights memorized

Glass in the gravel like the stars in the sky

D
In that slow motion minute between living and dead

A
Looked in my eyes and he told me, he said

     A                      D        A
This war that I wage to get up every day

                             E          A
It's a fiberglass boat, it's azaleas in May

         F#m     E            D          A
It's the women I love and the law that I hate

                       D      A
Lord let me die in the Iodine State

                       E      A
Lord let me die in the Iodine State

(During the last part of the chorus, mimic the vocal melody with something like this:

e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|---------5--5h7-5~-------------------------------|
G|-----s6-------------6s--2--4-2-4-2~--------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------| 

A
Palmetto rose in the sidewalk mud

Pearly white stem and a big green bud

D
Catch him coming out of a King Street store

A
Bullshit story about the Civil War

A
You can believe what you want to believe

But there ain't no making up a basket weave

D
Everybody in the tri-county knows

A
Who makes the best palmetto rose

          A                      D         A
And it's war that we wage to get up every day

        A                       E          A
It's a basket of sweetgrass, a wedding bouquet

          F#m      E            D          A
It's the ladies I love and the law that I hate

     A                      D      A
But Lord let me die in the Iodine State

A                       E     F#m
Lord let me die in the Iodine State

e|-------------------------------------------------|
B|---------5--5h7-5~-------------------------------|
G|-----s6-------------6s--2--4-2-4-2~--------------|
D|-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

Violin: F#m E D A

       D                          A 
Out on Sullivan's Island, they're swimming

       D                               A
On the beach where the big boats rolled in

        D                           A
With the earliest slaves, women and children

          E
Our first American kin

        D                             A
Here on King Street we're selling our roses

D                     A
Two for a five dollar bill

    D                        A
And tonight after everything closes

                   E
I'll follow my own free will

         F#m      E    D    A
And I've taken my fill

     F#m     E     D   A
I've taken my fill

D During the verses, mess around with the honky tonk in A. Honky tonk is about teasing the minor over a major progression. Something like:

e|----5--5----------------------5------------------|
B|----5--5--5-------------------5------------------|
G|----------5h6------------5h6---------------------|
D|---------------7-5-7~----------------------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------|

You get the idea. ************************************ | h Hammer-on | ~ Vibrato ************************************