New Cut Road
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: Sem capotraste
NEW CUT ROAD (LIVE)
As recorded by Emmylou Harris
(From the 1978 Album QUARTER MOON IN A TENT CENT TOWN - CD REISSUE BONUS TRACK)
[Intro]
D G
[Verse 1]
G
Now Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin' fool
D
A backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
D
Coleman Bonner's got a wore out bow
G
He's been playin' two days down new cut road
[Verse 2]
G
Now Coleman's little sister said, "You better act right
D
Daddy's gone to Louisville, he'll be back tonight
D
He's gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
G
And we're gonna move to Texas, we just waitin' on you"
[Verse 3]
G
Now Coleman's daddy pulled up in the yard
D
He said, "Pack up your lives kids it's gettin' too hard
D
Kentucky's alright but there's too many people
G C
Why just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple"
[Verse 4]
G
Now Coleman said, "Daddy, don't you worry 'bout me
D
I'm gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I die
D
I'm gonna drink that sour mash, I'm gonna race that mare
G
Hey, I got me a woman with the foxy red hair"
[Verse 5]
G
"Now you all been movin' west since the day you got married
D
Well I'm gettin' off the wagon, daddy, I'm too old to be carried
D
Gonna stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grow
G
I'm gonna play it all night down the new cut road"
[Guitar Solo]
G D G
[Verse 6]
G
Now Coleman's daddy said, "Now what's it all comin' to?
D
Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules
D
You can't make him go, he's too old for that
G
It's that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat"
[Verse 7]
G
Now Coleman's mama said, "Let the boy stay
D
'Cause he's raised up solid, he can find his own way
D
But as for me honey I'm with you
G C
Yeah, I always thought Kentucky was just passin' through"
[Verse 8]
G
Now Coleman's little sister was started in cryin'
D
And his daddy shook his head for the very last time
D
Coleman's mama said, "Somebody's gotta do it
G
Lord there wouldn't be no Kentucky if you didn't stick to it"
[Verse 9]
G
Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin
D
Watched 'em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
D
And he pulled out his fiddle and he rosined up his bow
G F C
And he played a little tune called "The New Cut Road"
[Outro]
G D G D G
How to play New Cut Road
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