MCMURTRY JAMES - "song for a deckhands daughter" Tablature

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 1998 09:46:36 +1300
From: "Kean, John" <keanj@agresearch.cri.nz>
Subject: CRD: Song for a Deckhand's Daughter - James McMurtry

Song for a Deck Hand's Daughter - James McMurtry
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>From "Too Long in the Wasteland".

Transcribed by John Kean (keanj@agresearch.cri.nz).

Standard tuning, no capo.


INTRO:
C
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .
||------------------|------------------||
||----------------1-|---------------1--||
||*-------0---------|-----0-----------*||
||*-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---*||
||--3---------------|-3----------------||
||----------3-------|---------3--------||
*use variants on this strum pattern throughout


VERSE 1:
C Dm
He'd always whistle ...
Fmaj7 C
On his way out the back ...
C Dm
So many times he ...
Fmaj7 C C/B
And rarely did he try to ...
Am Em
Shut off the tractor with ...
F/C C
Set the brake and ...
Am Em
Came home for Christmas, ...
F/C
With no presents for ...
Am
Only stories for ...


CHORUS 1:
Am G(see riff at end)
Still your Mama ...
C C/B
She never ...
Am G
Said she couldn't ...
F/C Am
You wondered how it ...


VERSE 2:
He'd work two weeks out on a river b...


CHORUS 2 (same as before)


SOLO:
Am G F/C Am
Am G F/C Am
Am G F/C Am


VERSE 3:
Am Em
And if his suitcase wasn't ...
F/C C
He might not be ...
Am Em
All the sides of him you ...
F/C
Would be drifting ....
Am
To another ...


CHORUS 3: (chords as before)
Still your Mama called him ....


OUTRO:
Am C/B C



CHORUS RIFF:
G
, . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , . , .

||-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------||
||-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---||
||-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---||
||-----0-------0---|-0h2-0---2p0-0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---||
||---------0h2-----|-----------------|-0h2-------------|-0-------2-------||
||-3---------------|-----------------|---------3-------|-----------------||



CHORDS: (bracketed notes indicate alternating bass notes)
C (3)32010
Dm x(0)0231
Fmaj7 x(3)3210
C/B x22010
Am (0)02210
Em 0(2)2000
F/C x3(3)21x
G 320003