RUSSELL TOM - "mineral wells" Tablature

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 23:26:34 -0400
From: Greg Yuriy <yuriym@cyberbeach.net>
To: acoustic@olga.net, guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: Mineral Wells by Tom Russell


Mineral Wells
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by: Tom Russell
written by: Tom Russell - Frontera Music

(capo 3rd fret)

Intro:
G (alternate between |320003| and |302003| intro only)

G
She was livin' ....
G
Bedded down in ...
G D
On a back street of ...
D
With a shoebox ...
D G
Old photos ...
G
She'd been a great actress ...
G G7 C
Played Shakespeare on the ...
C G
Before the three husbands, six ...
G D G
Of fifty-eight odd ...

G
Him they called fat boy ...
G D
And he clocked in at ...
D
With a passion for food and ....
D G
He'd been a great ...
G
He'd seen all her movies, ...
G G7 C
Heard her story and ...
C G
Though she bore no ...
G D G G7
The film's over before ....


Chorus:

G7 C
She told him of a ...
C D
In the hot ...
D C
It'll heal ...
C D
It's somewhere ...
D C
And she met ...
C G C
In the ....
C Am
And they danced ...
Am D C
In the moonlight of ...

G (alternate between |320003| and |302003|)

G
So they boarded a greyhound in ...
G D
Fat boy and the aging ....
D
Through the Great Painted Desert ....
D G
Amarillo plain ...
G
They got off in Fort Worth for ...
G G7 C
Caught the local to old ...
C G
And it dropped them in front ...
G D G
Called the Crazy ...
G
Disillusioned they found a cheap ...
G D
Drank vodka from a ...
D
There'd be no healing ...
D G
The fountain of youth ..
G
So the critic and the film star ...
G G7 C
As the great Texas sun ...
C G
And drunk but still dreaming they ...
G D G G7
In the moonlight of old ....


Repeat Chorus

C Am
They danced ..
Am D G C G D G
In the moonlight of ...



>From the album The Long Way Around 1997 Hightone Records
Live duet with Katy Moffatt
Transcribed by Greg Yuriy
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