The Mountain Goats – Jeff Davis County Blues (Guitar)

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Here's the tab to the thing he does sometimes during the song, the chords are listed for the pattern, simply hear the song yourself.

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B|-1-0-------|
G|-----0-----|
D|-------0---|
A|-----------|
E|-----------|

G
  After three nights in jail I

G
  head north from Toyahvale

Am7
   Switch to two eighty five in Pecos,

               G
head up to Red Bluff

   G
My walk's real steady

and my eyes are real cold but

G
 I feel like I'm all of sixteen years old,

  Am7
lost in the Travel Lodge

                                      G
with the television on with the sound down

I don't feel so tough

C                D          G
  Old issues of Sunset magazine

to read

                 C       D
Sleep for twelve hours

                 G
and dream about home

I have no place to go so I drive up to New Mexico Fix my eyes in the rearview when I cross the state line And I panic, I guess and although it's quite late I take the first exit to one twenty eight, I am coming back to Midland and I hope you won't mind Polaroids of the two of us, scattered on the passenger seat I drive slowly and evenly and I dream about home F C G G x3 F C G