Joan Baez – I Pity The Poor Immigrant (Guitar)

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This is a really fun Joan Baez song that has a bit more going on then Dylan's version. For keyboard I play C9 as Gm/C or Gm6/C, the Interludes follow the melody with some flourishes. You can probably play G/B like G7 or G7/B if you wanna spice it up, I'm not sure exactly whats being played in the recording but I think the guitar only plays standard G chord. [Intro] C C7 F G C [Verse 1]
  C      C9       F
[tab]    G            G/B             C
Who wishes he would've stayed home

C                 C9         F
Who uses all his power to do evil

           G              G/B       C
And in the end is always left so alone

     Am                Em
That man who with his fingers cheats

     F          G     C
Who lies with every breath

       C     C9   F
Who passionately hates his life

    G                  C
And likewise fears his death
[Interlude] C C7 F G C [Verse 2]
  C     C7        F
I pity the poor immigrant

      G           G/B       C
Whose strength is spent in vain

        C    C9        F
Whose heaven is like Ironsides

       G              C
Whose tears are like rain

    Am              Em
Who eats but is not satisfied

    F           G       C
Who hears but does not see

      C        C7         F
Who falls in love with wealth itself

    G          G/B    C
And turns his back on me
[Interlude] C C7 F G C [Verse 3]
  C      C9       F
I pity the poor immigrant

    G          G/B       C
Who tramples through the mud

                C7         F
Who fills his mouth with laughing

        G          G/B        C
And who fills his town with blood

      Am             Em
Whose visions in the final end

     F         G       C
Must shatter like the glass

   C     C7        F
I pity the poor immigrant

          G         G/B      C
When his gladness comes to pass