Black-Throated Wind Chords by Bob Weir

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_ _ _ Bringing me down, _
_ [F#m] _ I'm running aground, _
_ [D] _ blind in [A] the light of the [E] interstate _ cars _ _ _
_ _ _ Passing me by, _
_ [F#] _ the buses [F#m] and _ semis, [D] _ _ plunging [A] like stones from a [E] slingshot on _ Mars _ _ _
_ _ [A] But I'm here by the road, _ [D] _ _ [C#m] bound to [Bm] the load, _ _ _ that I picked up in ten thousand cafes [E] and bars _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ Alone with the rest of the drivers [D] that won't pick [C#m] me [Bm] up, _ _ _ _ _ the highway, the moon, the [E] clouds, the stars _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Black-throated wind, [C#m] _ _ _ [A] keeps on pouring in, with its words of a life [Em] where nothing is [C] new
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_ _ [D] _ _ I'm [C#m] Mother [A] American, [Em] I, _ [E] I'm [A] lost from the light, [G] _ _ _ _ [D] now I'm drowning [A] in _ blues _
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_ _ _ I left St.
Louis, the city [F#m] of blues, _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ in the midst of [A] a storm I'd rather [E] forget _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ I tried to pretend it came to [F#m] an _ end, _ _
_ _ [D] _ you weren't [A] the woman I once thought [E] I'd get
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_ _ [A] _ I can't deny, _ [D] the [A] time has [B] gone by, _ [Bm] _ when I never had doubts or thoughts [E] of regret
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_ _ [A] _ _ I wasn't mad when all [D] this [A] began, _ [Bm] _ _
_ _ _ _ who wouldn't think twice about the [E] end I'd get _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Black-throated wind, _
[C#m] _ _ _ [A] whispered in sin, _ and speaking of life that [Em] passes like [C] dew
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_ _ [D] _ Forced me to [A] see, _ _ [Em] you've done better by [A] me, _
_ _ [G] _ _ better [D] by me than I've done [A] by you _ _ _
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_ _ _ Now what's to be found from [F#m] racing around, _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ you [A] carry your pain wherever [E] you _ go _ _
_ _ _ _ Full of the blues and trying [F#] to lose, [F#m] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ you ain't [A] gonna learn what you don't [E] wanna know
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_ _ [A] _ _ I'd give you my eye, _ [D] _ [A] and off [Bm] of there lie, _ _ _ these elfins who love as [E] well as the city _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ And capture a glance, _ [D] oh, and make [Bm] a dance, _ _ _ of looking at you, [E] looking at me _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ Black-throated wind, [C#m] _ _ _ [A] sung crawling in, _ with its words of a lie
[Em] I'm a picture [C] _ of [A] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ a [C#m] mother [A] American now, [Em] _ _ here [A] comes the light
[G] _ I'm turning [D] around, that's what I'm gonna [A] do, _ going _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ [D] back home, that's what I'm [A] gonna do
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_ [G] _ I'm turning [D] around, that's what _ [A] I'm gonna do, _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ going [D] back home, that's what I'm [A] gonna do
_ _ _ _ [G] Forced me to see, you've done better [D] by me, better by me than [A] I've done by you
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_ Oh, [D] _ my [A] driving, _
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oh, [D] _ _ [A] my driving [E] you, _ _ [A] _ [G] yes I'm going [D] back home, that's what [A] I'm gonna do _ _
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