Chords for Jimmie Dale Gilmore & Joe Ely -- Tecumseh Valley (Live 1997)

_ _ _ You know, I [N] picked Towns up, uh,
I picked Towns [C] up hitchhiking in Lubbock.
_ [A] _ _ _ [C] Uh, _ I was [N] about 19 years old, and, _ uh,
it was before, right when I first [C] met Jimmy Gilmore.
_ And, uh, _ we hadn't gotten a band together [G#] yet,
but when I picked [F#] Towns up,
he had just come from San Francisco,
and he had a backpack full of record albums,
and, uh, he gave me one _
for taking him down the road a little bit,
and _ I took that record over and played it, uh, with Jimmy,
and we played it all night long,
_ and, uh, I'm sure that, uh,
it had a big influence on all of us Lubbock boys.
I want to get Jimmy out here and do the first song
that we learned at Towns, it's called Tecumseh Valley.
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ The name that she gave _ was _ _ _ _ _ Caroline,
_ _ _ [F] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [C] Oh, my
_ She was a little girl
And _ _ _ _ [F] her ways _ were free _
_ [C] And _ it seemed [A] to me
_ _ [G] _ _ Sunshine _ _ _ walked _ [F] beside her
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ She came from Spencer _
_ _ [F] Across _ the [C] hill
_ _ _ [F] _ She said _ her [C] paw had sunned her _
_ _ _ For the [F] cold _ was low
_ _ [C] _ And soon [Am] the snow
_ _ _ [G]
Turned _ _ _ the skies [F] to winter _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ She said she'd come
_ _ To _ [F] _ look [C] for work
_ [F] She was _ _ seeking _ _ _ [C] _
favor
_ _ _ _ _ For [F] a _ dime a day _
[C] And _ _ a place [Am] to stay
_ _ [G] She turned _ _ _ _ her [F] hands to labor _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Well, times were hard, Lord _
_ [F] And _ [C] jobs were scarce
_ _ [F] All _ _ through _ _ [C] Tecumseh Valley _ _
_ _ _ [F] But she _ _ asked around
_ _ [C] _ And a job she [Am] found
She found a [G] tendon bar
_ _ For _ _ [C] Tipsy Sally
[F] _ _ She _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ saved enough
_ To [F] _ _ get [C] back home
_ _ When [F] spring _ _ _ _ replaced [C] the winter
_ _ But _ _ _ [F] her _ dreams were denied _ _
[C] Her _ _ _ [Am] paw had died
_ The [G] word _ _ _ _ _ come down [F] from Spencer _
_ _ _ Well, [G] _ [C] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
she took to whoring _ _ _
[Am] _ _ [C] Out on the streets _
_ With _ _ all _ the lust inside her _ _
_ _ _ And it [F] was many _ a man
_ [C] _ _ _
_ [Am] Returned again
_ _ [G] To lay _ _ _ _ _ himself [F] beside her
_ They _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
found her down
_ _ [F] _ _ _
_ [C] Beneath the stairs
_ That [F] led _ _ _ to [C] Tipsy Sally's _ _ _ _ _
_ [F] In her _ hand when she died
_ [G] Was _ [C] _ a note that [A] cried
[Am] _ [G] Fare thee well
_ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ [F] Tecumseh Valley _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ The name she gave
_ _ [F] _ _ Was _ Caroline
Caroline, _ _ her [F] daughter
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And her ways _ were [F] free _ _
[C] _ _ And it seemed [Am] to me
_ _ [G] Sunshine _ _ _ _ walked _ [F] beside her
_ Joe _ _ [C] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _
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[G#] _ _ Ely _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _