Misc Soundtrack – Nashville - 200 Years (Guitar)

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200 Years, by Richard Baskin and Henry Gibson, from the Robert Altman film Nashville I will also post a version of this you can play with a capo on 3rd fret, if these chord shapes are too much of a hassle. --------------------------------------------------- Opening buildup - 2 bars of snare drum, 2 more bars with bass added, and finally 4 with timpani added to those. As an optional intro, here's the opening bass part.
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E|------------1--|
[2 bar banjo intro] Bb Bb [Verse 1]
   Bb               Bb
My mother's people came by ship

    Ab               Bb
And fought at Bunker Hill

   Eb           Eb
My daddy lost a leg in France

  Db             Eb
I have his medal still

   Bb                  Bb
My brother served with Patton

      Gm     F    Gm    F
I saw action in Algiers

      Eb            Bb        Gm
Oh we must be doin' somethin' right

   Eb       F        Bb      Bb
To last two hun-dred years.‎
[Verse 2]
  Bb                 Bb
I pray my sons won't go to war

    Ab                 Bb
But if they must, they must

  Eb                  Eb
I share our country's motto

       Db             Eb
And in God I place my trust

   Bb               Bb
We may have had our ups and downs

    Gm       F           Gm   F
Our times of trials and fears

       Eb            Bb
But we must be doin' somethin' right

   Eb       F
To last two hun-dred -

                     Bb            Gm
(Lead vocalist)    - years.
(Backing vocalists) 'Must be doing something right
   Eb       F        Bb
To last two hun-dred years
Bb Bb Bb [Bridge] (Back to lead vocalist)
     Gm                  F
I've lived through two depressions

    Eb              F
And seven Dust Bowl droughts

        Gm          F
Floods, locusts and tornadoes

      Eb             F
But I don't have any doubts

      Eb            Bb
We're all a part of history

        Gm    F        Gm    F
Why Old Glory waves to show

    Eb                   Bb         Gm
How far along we've come along 'til now

    Eb               F
How far we've got to go.‎
Bb Bb [Verse 3]
     Bb                 Bb
It's been hard work but every time

   Ab         Bb
We get into a fix

      Eb                Eb
Let's think of what our children face

   Db                    Eb
In two - ought - seven - six

     Bb           Bb
It's up to us, to pave the way

         Gm        F         Gm     F
With our blood and sweat and tears

       Eb            Bb
For we must be doin' somethin' right

   Eb       F
To last two hun-dred -

                     Bb            Gm
(Lead vocalist)    - years.
(Backing vocalists) 'Must be doing something right
                       Eb       F           Bb
(Lead vocalist)                          We must be doin'
(Backing vocalists) To last two hun-dred years.
  Gm
- something right

   Eb     Eb
To last

    F     F
Two hun - dred

Gb  Ab  Bb  Ab
Years -----

             Bb
Two hun-dred years!
Well, that was a pretty good rehearsal.