Townes Van Zandt – Tecumseh Valley (Guitar)

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The name she gave was Caroline

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The daughter of a miner

        F
And her ways were free

       C    G/B   Am
And it seemed to  me

     G                 F        C
That sunshine walked beside her

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She come from Spencer, across the hill

F                   C
She said her pa had sent her

          F
Cause the coal was low

    C  G/B   Am
And soon the snow

      G                    F     C
Would turn the skies to winter.

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She said she'd come to look for work

F                   C
She was not seekin' favors

          F
And for a dime a day

      C   G/B  Am
And a place to stay

      G                     F     C
She'd turn those hands to labor

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The times were hard Lord, and the jobs were few

F                    C
All through Tecumseh Valley

        F
But she asked around

      C  G/B  Am
And a job she found

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Tending bar at Gypsy Sally's

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She saved enough to get back home

F                        C
When spring replaced the winter

        F
But her dreams were denied

    C  G/B   Am
Her pa  had  died

    G                       F     C
The word come down from Spencer.

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So she turned to whorin' out on the streets

F                   C
With all the lust inside her

           F
And it was many a man

      C   G/B  Am
Who returned  again

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To lay himself beside her.

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They found her down beneath the stairs

F                 C
That led to Gypsy Sally's

           F
And in her hand when she died

      C  G/B    Am
Was a note that cried

          G                 F     C
Fare-thee-well, Tecumseh Valley

C                F        C
The name she gave was Caroline

F                 C
The daughter of a miner

        F
And her ways were free

       C    G/B   Am
And it seemed to  me

     G                 F        C
That sunshine walked beside her