Chords for Kate Wolf with Mark Ross
Tempo:
75.975 bpm
Chords used:
C
G
F
C#
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
Mark, how about we get a couple more songs in here?
This one, the other one I have, that I'd like to hear two more.
Is there one you would like to do before I
Oh, you've got your banjo out.
Yeah, I've got my banjo out.
I was thinking
Is that a move in a little bit?
All right.
I don't trust anything more complicated than a knife and [C#] fork, personally.
[G] Well, you're faking it pretty [C] good tonight.
[G]
You'll have to tell us what this is.
I haven't decided what it is.
This is a banjo.
It's an [G#] instrument very popular in the Hills of [C] Queens where I grew up.
[F] [C]
[G] [C]
[A] [C] [Em] [C]
Willie gambled in the White House.
Wherever there was people there was Willie and his car.
He had a reputation as the gambler's man around.
The wives would lock their husbands [B] up when Willie come to town.
[C]
He was a lawyer and a [G] [C#] good lad.
[C]
He was sailing on a riverboat to a town called New Orleans.
Willie played his card games with all the jacks and queens.
I've come to win some money now, gambling Willie said.
And when he finished gambling, boys, the whole dirt boat was his and his.
[Gm] [C] [G] [C] Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town
He had an old-time poker game, lasted about a week.
And nine hundred miners laid
[C] their
Oh, Willie had a heart of gold.
sported
all his children and all their mothers too.
He wore no rings or beads like other gamblers wore.
That was in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the 1880s, Willie O'Connelly and a rancher by the name of Ike Jackson
held a poker game for the championship of the world.
About a hundred people crowded into the saloon to watch the game
including the governor [F] of the New Mexico territory.
And they were pretty good poker players.
Things were going pretty slow, though, until both of them got good hands
or what they thought were good hands, and there was $100,000 in the pot.
And neither of them had any more cash on them.
Well, Jackson, the rancher, he takes paper and pencil
and he writes out a deed to his ranch and 10,000 head [G#m] of cattle
and he raises Willie that [F] amount.
Willie doesn't have any more cash, doesn't own any property
except a deck of cards, the clothes he's wearing.
He takes paper and pencil and scribbles on it for a second
hands the paper and pencil to the governor of the New Mexico territory
and drawing his six-shooter, cocking it and pointing it at the governor
says, Governor, I love you and I'd do anything for you
but I love my reputation as a poker player more.
Won't you please sign this?
Without reading it, the governor signs it and hands it back.
Willie holsters his six-shooter, checks the writing and the signature one more time
throws it in the pot and says, I raise you the territory of New Mexico.
Here's the deed.
[E] Well, Jackson, the rancher, he throws down his cards, tips back his hat
shoves back his chair, thinks for a second and says, well, take the darn pot
but it's a damn good thing for you the governor of Texas wasn't [C] here.
When you played your cards with Willie now you never really knew
whether he was bluffing, boy, or whether he was true.
He won a fortune from a man who pulled it in his chair.
He made a head of diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair.
He rolled the roll there in the pot and said, I'll take the pot.
If you're a gambler now, go by the notes.
It was in an old-time bar room, it was a poker game.
A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame.
He shot poor Willie through the head, it was a tragic fate.
[F] And when the cards fell from his [C] hands, they raced back to the gate.
That is right.
[G] If you're a gambler now, go [C] by the notes.
So come all you ramblin' gamblin' men and sisters.
All right, the story, boys, is over.
It was very plain to see.
You make your money while you can, and then you better stop.
But when you play the dead man's hand, you gamble days are up and dry.
[F] [C] [G] And that's the [C] life, I say, right away.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[G] [C]
This is Kate Wolfe, [B] and it's a little after 10.30.3 here in Santa Rosa.
This one, the other one I have, that I'd like to hear two more.
Is there one you would like to do before I
Oh, you've got your banjo out.
Yeah, I've got my banjo out.
I was thinking
Is that a move in a little bit?
All right.
I don't trust anything more complicated than a knife and [C#] fork, personally.
[G] Well, you're faking it pretty [C] good tonight.
[G]
You'll have to tell us what this is.
I haven't decided what it is.
This is a banjo.
It's an [G#] instrument very popular in the Hills of [C] Queens where I grew up.
[F] [C]
[G] [C]
[A] [C] [Em] [C]
Willie gambled in the White House.
Wherever there was people there was Willie and his car.
He had a reputation as the gambler's man around.
The wives would lock their husbands [B] up when Willie come to town.
[C]
He was a lawyer and a [G] [C#] good lad.
[C]
He was sailing on a riverboat to a town called New Orleans.
Willie played his card games with all the jacks and queens.
I've come to win some money now, gambling Willie said.
And when he finished gambling, boys, the whole dirt boat was his and his.
[Gm] [C] [G] [C] Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town
He had an old-time poker game, lasted about a week.
And nine hundred miners laid
[C] their
Oh, Willie had a heart of gold.
sported
all his children and all their mothers too.
He wore no rings or beads like other gamblers wore.
That was in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the 1880s, Willie O'Connelly and a rancher by the name of Ike Jackson
held a poker game for the championship of the world.
About a hundred people crowded into the saloon to watch the game
including the governor [F] of the New Mexico territory.
And they were pretty good poker players.
Things were going pretty slow, though, until both of them got good hands
or what they thought were good hands, and there was $100,000 in the pot.
And neither of them had any more cash on them.
Well, Jackson, the rancher, he takes paper and pencil
and he writes out a deed to his ranch and 10,000 head [G#m] of cattle
and he raises Willie that [F] amount.
Willie doesn't have any more cash, doesn't own any property
except a deck of cards, the clothes he's wearing.
He takes paper and pencil and scribbles on it for a second
hands the paper and pencil to the governor of the New Mexico territory
and drawing his six-shooter, cocking it and pointing it at the governor
says, Governor, I love you and I'd do anything for you
but I love my reputation as a poker player more.
Won't you please sign this?
Without reading it, the governor signs it and hands it back.
Willie holsters his six-shooter, checks the writing and the signature one more time
throws it in the pot and says, I raise you the territory of New Mexico.
Here's the deed.
[E] Well, Jackson, the rancher, he throws down his cards, tips back his hat
shoves back his chair, thinks for a second and says, well, take the darn pot
but it's a damn good thing for you the governor of Texas wasn't [C] here.
When you played your cards with Willie now you never really knew
whether he was bluffing, boy, or whether he was true.
He won a fortune from a man who pulled it in his chair.
He made a head of diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair.
He rolled the roll there in the pot and said, I'll take the pot.
If you're a gambler now, go by the notes.
It was in an old-time bar room, it was a poker game.
A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame.
He shot poor Willie through the head, it was a tragic fate.
[F] And when the cards fell from his [C] hands, they raced back to the gate.
That is right.
[G] If you're a gambler now, go [C] by the notes.
So come all you ramblin' gamblin' men and sisters.
All right, the story, boys, is over.
It was very plain to see.
You make your money while you can, and then you better stop.
But when you play the dead man's hand, you gamble days are up and dry.
[F] [C] [G] And that's the [C] life, I say, right away.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[G] [C]
This is Kate Wolfe, [B] and it's a little after 10.30.3 here in Santa Rosa.
Key:
C
G
F
C#
B
C
G
F
Mark, how about we get a couple more songs in here?
This one, the other one I have, that I'd like to hear two more.
Is there one you would like to do before I_
Oh, you've got your banjo out.
Yeah, I've got my banjo out.
I was thinking_
Is that a move in a little bit?
All right.
I don't trust anything more complicated than a knife and [C#] fork, personally. _
[G] Well, you're faking it pretty [C] good tonight.
_ _ _ [G]
You'll have to tell us what this is.
_ I haven't decided what it is.
This is a banjo.
It's an [G#] instrument very popular in the Hills of [C] Queens where I grew up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [C] _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _
_ Willie gambled in the White House.
_ Wherever there was people there was Willie and his car.
He had a reputation as the gambler's man around.
The wives would lock their husbands [B] up when Willie come to town.
_ [C] _ _
He was a lawyer and a _ [G] [C#] good lad.
[C] _ _
He was sailing on a riverboat to a town called New Orleans.
Willie played his card games with all the jacks and queens.
I've come to win some money now, gambling Willie said.
And when he finished gambling, boys, the whole dirt boat was his and his. _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town_
He had an old-time poker game, lasted about a week.
And nine hundred miners laid _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] their_
_ _ Oh, Willie had a heart of gold.
_ _sported
all his children and all their mothers too.
He wore no rings or beads like other gamblers wore. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That was in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the 1880s, Willie O'Connelly and a rancher by the name of Ike Jackson_
held a poker game for the championship of the world. _
About a hundred people crowded into the saloon to watch the game_
including the governor [F] of the New Mexico territory.
And they were pretty good poker players.
Things were going pretty slow, though, until both of them got good hands_
or what they thought were good hands, and there was $100,000 in the pot.
And neither of them had any more cash on them.
Well, Jackson, the rancher, he takes paper and pencil_
and he writes out a deed to his ranch and 10,000 head [G#m] of cattle_
and he raises Willie that [F] amount.
Willie doesn't have any more cash, doesn't own any property_
except a deck of cards, the clothes he's wearing.
He takes paper and pencil and scribbles on it for a second_
hands the paper and pencil to the governor of the New Mexico territory_
and drawing his six-shooter, cocking it and pointing it at the governor_
says, Governor, I love you and I'd do anything for you_
but I love my reputation as a poker player more.
Won't you please sign this?
Without reading it, the governor signs it and hands it back.
Willie holsters his six-shooter, checks the writing and the signature one more time_
throws it in the pot and says, I raise you the territory of New Mexico.
Here's the deed.
_ [E] Well, Jackson, the rancher, he throws down his cards, tips back his hat_
shoves back his chair, thinks for a second and says, well, take the darn pot_
but it's a damn good thing for you the governor of Texas wasn't [C] here.
When you played your cards with Willie now you never really knew_
whether he was bluffing, boy, or whether he was true.
He won a fortune from a man who pulled it in his chair.
He made a head of diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair.
He _ rolled the roll there in the pot and said, I'll take the pot.
If you're a gambler now, go by the notes.
It was in an old-time bar room, it was a poker game.
A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame.
He shot poor Willie through the head, it was a tragic fate.
[F] And when the cards fell from his [C] hands, they raced back to the gate.
That is right.
_ _ [G] If you're a gambler now, go [C] by the notes.
So come all you ramblin' gamblin' men and sisters.
All right, the story, boys, is over.
It was very plain to see.
You make your money while you can, and then you better stop.
But when you play the dead man's hand, you gamble days are up and dry. _
_ _ [F] _ [C] [G] And that's the [C] life, I say, right away.
_ Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[G] _ [C] _ _
_ _ This is Kate Wolfe, [B] and it's a little after 10.30.3 here in Santa Rosa.
This one, the other one I have, that I'd like to hear two more.
Is there one you would like to do before I_
Oh, you've got your banjo out.
Yeah, I've got my banjo out.
I was thinking_
Is that a move in a little bit?
All right.
I don't trust anything more complicated than a knife and [C#] fork, personally. _
[G] Well, you're faking it pretty [C] good tonight.
_ _ _ [G]
You'll have to tell us what this is.
_ I haven't decided what it is.
This is a banjo.
It's an [G#] instrument very popular in the Hills of [C] Queens where I grew up. _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ [C] _ [Em] _ [C] _ _ _
_ Willie gambled in the White House.
_ Wherever there was people there was Willie and his car.
He had a reputation as the gambler's man around.
The wives would lock their husbands [B] up when Willie come to town.
_ [C] _ _
He was a lawyer and a _ [G] [C#] good lad.
[C] _ _
He was sailing on a riverboat to a town called New Orleans.
Willie played his card games with all the jacks and queens.
I've come to win some money now, gambling Willie said.
And when he finished gambling, boys, the whole dirt boat was his and his. _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [C] _ [G] _ [C] _ _ Up in the Rocky Mountains in a town_
He had an old-time poker game, lasted about a week.
And nine hundred miners laid _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[C] their_
_ _ Oh, Willie had a heart of gold.
_ _sported
all his children and all their mothers too.
He wore no rings or beads like other gamblers wore. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ That was in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
In the 1880s, Willie O'Connelly and a rancher by the name of Ike Jackson_
held a poker game for the championship of the world. _
About a hundred people crowded into the saloon to watch the game_
including the governor [F] of the New Mexico territory.
And they were pretty good poker players.
Things were going pretty slow, though, until both of them got good hands_
or what they thought were good hands, and there was $100,000 in the pot.
And neither of them had any more cash on them.
Well, Jackson, the rancher, he takes paper and pencil_
and he writes out a deed to his ranch and 10,000 head [G#m] of cattle_
and he raises Willie that [F] amount.
Willie doesn't have any more cash, doesn't own any property_
except a deck of cards, the clothes he's wearing.
He takes paper and pencil and scribbles on it for a second_
hands the paper and pencil to the governor of the New Mexico territory_
and drawing his six-shooter, cocking it and pointing it at the governor_
says, Governor, I love you and I'd do anything for you_
but I love my reputation as a poker player more.
Won't you please sign this?
Without reading it, the governor signs it and hands it back.
Willie holsters his six-shooter, checks the writing and the signature one more time_
throws it in the pot and says, I raise you the territory of New Mexico.
Here's the deed.
_ [E] Well, Jackson, the rancher, he throws down his cards, tips back his hat_
shoves back his chair, thinks for a second and says, well, take the darn pot_
but it's a damn good thing for you the governor of Texas wasn't [C] here.
When you played your cards with Willie now you never really knew_
whether he was bluffing, boy, or whether he was true.
He won a fortune from a man who pulled it in his chair.
He made a head of diamond flush, Willie didn't even have a pair.
He _ rolled the roll there in the pot and said, I'll take the pot.
If you're a gambler now, go by the notes.
It was in an old-time bar room, it was a poker game.
A man lost all his money, he said Willie was to blame.
He shot poor Willie through the head, it was a tragic fate.
[F] And when the cards fell from his [C] hands, they raced back to the gate.
That is right.
_ _ [G] If you're a gambler now, go [C] by the notes.
So come all you ramblin' gamblin' men and sisters.
All right, the story, boys, is over.
It was very plain to see.
You make your money while you can, and then you better stop.
But when you play the dead man's hand, you gamble days are up and dry. _
_ _ [F] _ [C] [G] And that's the [C] life, I say, right away.
_ Oh, oh, oh, oh.
[G] _ [C] _ _
_ _ This is Kate Wolfe, [B] and it's a little after 10.30.3 here in Santa Rosa.