Ashgrove Chords by Dave Alvin

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_ [Bb] Well, when I was a [G] young boy, I [C] used to slip away down to the Ash Grove to hear the old
blues men play.
[Gm] There was Big Joe and Lightning and Reverend Gary, [C] too.
Well, I'd sit and stare and dream of doing what [G] they could do.
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[C] _ Well, it's been 30 years [Gm] since the Ash Grove burned down and [G] I'm out on this highway traveling
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from town to town, [Cm] trying [Gm] to make a living, trying [Cm] to pay the rent, [G] trying to figure out
where my life [C] went.
I want to go back to the Ash Grove. _
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That's where I [Gm] come from.
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_ I [C] want to go back to the Ash Grove.
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That's where I [Gm] belong. _ _ _ _
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_ [C] _ [G] Well, you don't have to [C] go searching, [Gm]
pretend to [C] put on [Gm] airs, because the blues are going
to find you someday somewhere.
_ Now my [C] mother's gone, now my father's [Gm] gone, and all the old blues men have all [C] passed
on and [G] I'm out on this highway traveling from [Gm] town to town, [G] setting up my gear [Gm] and then
I'm tearing it down, [G] turning up my guitar, standing up on the stage.
I'm just trying to raise ghosts up out of their [C] graves.
I want to go back to the Ash Grove.
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That's where I [Gm] come from. _ _
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_ Yeah, [C] I want to go back to the Ash Grove. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's where [Gm] I belong.
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_ _ Well, I can't say I've been all sinner.
Can't say I've been all saint.
I've done some good deeds and I've made big [Gm] mistakes.
I've been in and out of love.
Said words I regret.
[F] I've been drunk, been sober, smoked too many cigarettes, and I'm [Gm] out on this highway traveling
from town to [Cm] town, and the news on the radio just brings me down.
[F] Intolerance and fear, ignorance [C] and lies, it's the same old, same old I heard a million [Bb] times [G] now.
Thinking of friends and lovers and how they come and go, like look-alike houses on the
side of the road [Gm] full of everyday people trying to get ahead, [G] trying to find a reason just
to get out of bed, cause we all need something just to get us through.
Well, I'm going to play the blues tonight, man, cause that's [C] what I do.
I'm going back to the Ash Grove.
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That's where I [Gm] come from.
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_ _ [C] I'm going back to the Ash Grove. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's where I [F] belong.
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