Chords for Hank Snow - Dangerous Dan McGrew

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_ _ [Cm] A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the [F] Malamute Saloon, and the kid that handles
the music box was hitting a ragtime [C] tune.
_ [F] And back at the bar in a solo game sat dangerous Dan McGrew, _ and watching his luck was his
[Gm] light of love, the lady that's [F] known as Lou. _ _
When out of the night which was fifty below and [C] into the din and the [F] glare, there stumbled
[Bb] a minor fresh from the creek's dog dirty and loaded for [F] bear.
_ _ [C] He looked like a man with a foot in [F] the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse.
Yet he tilted a poke [C] of dust [F] on the bar and he called for drinks for the house.
_ There was none could place the stranger's face, though we searched [Cm] ourselves for a clue.
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But we drank his health and the last to drink was dangerous Dan McGrew.
_ _ _ There's men that somehow just grip your eyes and hold them hard like a spell.
[Cm] And such [F] was he, and he looked to me like a man who had lived in hell, _ _ with a facemoast
hair and the dreary stare of a dog whose day is done as he watered the green stuff in his
glass and the drops [Db] fell [F] one by [Bb] one.
_ _ Then I got [F] to figuring who he was and wondering what he'd do.
And I turned my head and there [G] watching him was the lady that's [F] known as Lou. _
_ And his eyes went [G] rubbing around [Bb] the room and he seemed in a kind of daze, _ till at [F] last
that old piano fell in the way of his [Em] wandering gaze. _ _
[Fm] Now the ragtime kid was having a drink and there [F] was no one else on the stool.
[C] So the stranger stumbles across the room and flops [Fm] down there like a fool, _ in a buckskin
shirt that was glazed with dirt.
He sat and I saw him sway.
[F] Then he clutched the keys with his talon hands.
My [Bb] God, but the [Dm] _ _ [Gm] _ [F] _ hell!
Were you ever [Bb] out in the great alone when the moon [F] was awful clear?
_ [Gm] And the icy mountains hemmed you in with [F] a silence you most could hear?
_ With only the howl of a timber wolf as you camp there in the cold, a half-dead [Bb] thing
and a stark dead whirl clean [F] mad for the muck called gold.
_ While [C] high overhead green, yellow and red, the northern lights [F] swept in bars, then you've
a hunch what the music meant, hunger, cold [Bb] night in the stars.
_ [F] And hunger not of the belly kind that's [C] banished with bacon and [Fm] beans, but the gnawing hunger
of lonely men for [C] a home and all that it means.
_ For [Fm] a fireside far from the cares that [F] are four walls and a roof [Bb] above, but oh, so cram
full of cozy joy and [Fm] crowned with a woman's love.
_ [C] A woman dearer than [Bb] all the [F] world and true as heaven is [C] true.
[F] _ God, how ghastly she looks through her rouge, [Bb] the lady that's known as Lou.
[F] _ Then on a sudden the music [E] changed so [Gm] soft that you [F] scarce could hear, _ _ but you felt that
your life had been looted clean [G] of all that had once held dear.
_ _ _ That someone [C] had stolen the woman you loved, that her [Em] love was a devil's lie, _ [G] that your
guts were gone and the best for you was to crawl [D] away and die.
_ T'was the [G] crowning cry of a heart's despair and it thrilled you through and through.
[C] I [Em] guess I'll make it a spread, Mizeur, [G] said dangerous Dan McGrew.
[Bm] _ [Gb] _ [G] The music almost died away, then it burst like a [C] pent-up flood.
And it seemed to say, repay, [G] repay, and my eyes were blind with blood.
_ _ The thought came back of an [Am] ancient wrong and it stung [D] like a frozen lash.
[G] And the lust awoke to kill, [Gb] to [G] kill, then the music stopped [C] with a crash.
_ And the stranger turned and his eyes they burned in a most peculiar way. _
In a buckskin shirt that was glazed with dirt, he said, and I saw him sway.
_ Then his lips went in in a kind of grin and he spoke and his voice was calm.
And boys say, see, you don't know me and none of you care a damn. _
But I don't want to state and my words are straight and I'll bet my poke they're true,
that one of you is a hound of hell and that one's Dan McGrew.
_ _ [F] Then I ducked my head and the lights went out and two guns blazed in the dark.
And a woman [Bb] screamed and the lights went up and two men lay [F] stiff and stark.
_ Pitched on his head and pumped full [C] of lid was dangerous Dan McGrew,
_ [F] while the man from the creek's lake clutched to the breast of the lady that's known as Lou.
_ [Bb] _ Now these are the simple facts of [F] the case and I guess I ought to know.
_ [C] They say that the stranger was crazed [F] with hooch and I'm not denying it so.
I'm not as wise as these lawyer guys [C] but strictly between us two,
the woman that kissed him [F] and took his gold was [D] the lady that's [Fm] known as Lou.
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