EARLE STEVE - "taneytown" Tablature
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<B><U><P>Taneytown</U>			Steve Earle</P>
<P>Am	C	G	Am	G	Am 	Em	G</P>
</B><P>Am	C	G	Am</P>
<P>I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown</P>
<P>	Am	G	Am	Em G</P>
<P>To see what I could see</P>
<P>	Am	C	G	Am</P>
<P>My mama told me never go, I’m damned near twenty-two years old</P>
<P>	Am	G	Am	Em G</P>
<P>Some times I feel this hollow swallowing me.</P>
<P>Ma went off to Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers, I snuck off after dark.</P>
<P>It’s a long way down the Canny Road, the stars were bright & the moon was low,</P>
<P>Down where the blacktop highway starts.</P>
<P>Chorus:</P>
<P>I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,</P>
<P>I went down to see what I could see.</P>
<P>Now everybody stared at me, you’d think that they ain’t never seen,</P>
<P>A colored boy before.</P>
<P>Well, they jumped at me and they called me names, </P>
<P>they’d a whupped me sure, but the sheriff came,</P>
<P>I slipped off and ran through the drygoods store.</P>
<P>I ran down Division Street, but some of them boys followed me,</P>
<P>Down to the railroad track.</P>
<P>There was four of them & I came five, but I got my old Randall knife,</P>
<P>I cut that boy & I never did look back.</P>
<B><P>Chorus</P>
</B><P>Across the fields & woods I run, like a bullet from a rabbit gun, </P>
<P>Back home to my bed.</P>
<P>Ma came back from Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers,</P>
<P>Boy you look like hell, was all she said.</P>
<P>A month went by without a word, till someone down in the hollow heard,</P>
<P>About that boy they hung.</P>
<P>He begged those men to spare his life, but I dropped my bloody Randall knife,</P>
<P>He picked it up, so they thought he was the one.</P>
<P>Repeat chorus twice, second time insert last line, "I ain’t going back there anymore."</P></BODY>
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<B><U><P>Taneytown</U>			Steve Earle</P>
<P>Am	C	G	Am	G	Am 	Em	G</P>
</B><P>Am	C	G	Am</P>
<P>I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown</P>
<P>	Am	G	Am	Em G</P>
<P>To see what I could see</P>
<P>	Am	C	G	Am</P>
<P>My mama told me never go, I’m damned near twenty-two years old</P>
<P>	Am	G	Am	Em G</P>
<P>Some times I feel this hollow swallowing me.</P>
<P>Ma went off to Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers, I snuck off after dark.</P>
<P>It’s a long way down the Canny Road, the stars were bright & the moon was low,</P>
<P>Down where the blacktop highway starts.</P>
<P>Chorus:</P>
<P>I went down to Taneytown, I went down to Taneytown,</P>
<P>I went down to see what I could see.</P>
<P>Now everybody stared at me, you’d think that they ain’t never seen,</P>
<P>A colored boy before.</P>
<P>Well, they jumped at me and they called me names, </P>
<P>they’d a whupped me sure, but the sheriff came,</P>
<P>I slipped off and ran through the drygoods store.</P>
<P>I ran down Division Street, but some of them boys followed me,</P>
<P>Down to the railroad track.</P>
<P>There was four of them & I came five, but I got my old Randall knife,</P>
<P>I cut that boy & I never did look back.</P>
<B><P>Chorus</P>
</B><P>Across the fields & woods I run, like a bullet from a rabbit gun, </P>
<P>Back home to my bed.</P>
<P>Ma came back from Gettysburg, her and that new beau of hers,</P>
<P>Boy you look like hell, was all she said.</P>
<P>A month went by without a word, till someone down in the hollow heard,</P>
<P>About that boy they hung.</P>
<P>He begged those men to spare his life, but I dropped my bloody Randall knife,</P>
<P>He picked it up, so they thought he was the one.</P>
<P>Repeat chorus twice, second time insert last line, "I ain’t going back there anymore."</P></BODY>
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