Chords for Steve Earle - Dixieland (Live in Sydney) | Moshcam
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128.15 bpm
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[D]
So, this next song I wrote some years ago, and it's, I stole the character that's speaking
to you in this song [E] just outright from a great book called The Killer Angels by Michael Schara,
which is a novel about the greatest battle of the American Civil War, which was the Battle of Gettysburg.
[Am] Greatest battle because it was one of the most monumental fuck-ups on both sides.
One army didn't know where the other army was.
They bumped into each other accidentally.
And there were 55 ,000 casualties over three days, killed and wounded.
A lot of those wounded later died because, you know, amputees didn't survive in the way
that they do now.
Some of the first, you know, battlefield amputations took place in that war.
Trench warfare was originated in that war.
Automatic weapons, the first weapons that could fire one shot after another and repeating
arms happened during that war.
A lot of advances in technology and the ways that we kill each other.
[D] And up until that summer of Gettysburg, [Ab] it was fought by all volunteer armies, but we
had to institute the first draft in our history as a country because all the people dying
in this war were Americans and we were running out of [E] people.
Now, all of those volunteers, if you asked any of them why they were fighting, you'd
get a different answer from almost everybody, which is one of the things that the title
of the book comes from.
There's a lot of real characters.
Joshua Chamberlain, who was the commander of the 20th Maine, he was a college professor
and he joined the army and raised a regiment [Ab] because he believed he was fighting against
the institution of slavery.
This person who's speaking to you in this song is a composite character based on three
people who actually lived in two of the three died fighting with the 20th Maine.
And he is an NCO.
He's a sergeant.
He's one of the guys that everything Joshua Chamberlain, his colonel, knows about being
a soldier, he learned from this character in the book.
And that's probably the way that it was.
I mean, when the Finney and Rebegins basically sort of wind down in the 1850s for the moment,
and a lot of guys landed in the United States with one marketable skill and they joined the army.
So a lot of the professional soldiers in that army came from Ireland.
Now, this guy, if you asked him, and it's in the book, the title comes from a conversation
he has with Colonel Chamberlain where he asks him what he's fighting for.
He believes he's fighting class war because he believes that the system he's fighting
against in the southern United States is the same system that he fought against in Ireland.
And it never ceases to amaze me.
I love my job because the pinko shit that I can sneak in on a bluegrass record is like,
[E]
[D]
[E]
[D]
[E]
[A] I am Corinne and I'm a fighting man.
And I come from [G] County Clare in the Brettswood, Haney, [D] for Finney.
So I took my lever [B] there and across the ocean in the Irie and the [G] violet's trouble float.
And the captain's [A] brother's a railroad man and met us at the boat.
So I joined up with the [G] 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, I'm a [A] fighting man.
Marching south in the pouring [E] rain and we're all going down to Dixieland.
[G] [E]
[A] I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and I fight for [G] Chamberlain.
Because he stood [G] right with us when [A] the Johnny's came like a banshee [B] on the wind.
[A] When the smoke cleared out of her Gettysburg, many [G] a mother wept.
Many a good [D] boy died this year and he [B] smelled just like death.
I [E] am Corrine of the [G] 20th Maine and I march to hell [A] and back again for Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
And we're all going down to Dixieland.
[G] [E]
[B]
[D]
[G] [E]
[B]
[A] I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and a damn [G] old gentleman whose only worth is [B] a father's name and the sweat of a working man.
We [A] come from the farms and the city streets, hundreds, [G] far and the land.
Shed our blood [B] in the battle of the seed and now we're all American.
I am Corrine of the 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, [A] I'm a fighting man.
I'll be [A] back this way [Em] again because we're all going [E] down to Dixieland.
[G]
[B] [E]
[D] [E] [G]
[E]
[B]
So, this next song I wrote some years ago, and it's, I stole the character that's speaking
to you in this song [E] just outright from a great book called The Killer Angels by Michael Schara,
which is a novel about the greatest battle of the American Civil War, which was the Battle of Gettysburg.
[Am] Greatest battle because it was one of the most monumental fuck-ups on both sides.
One army didn't know where the other army was.
They bumped into each other accidentally.
And there were 55 ,000 casualties over three days, killed and wounded.
A lot of those wounded later died because, you know, amputees didn't survive in the way
that they do now.
Some of the first, you know, battlefield amputations took place in that war.
Trench warfare was originated in that war.
Automatic weapons, the first weapons that could fire one shot after another and repeating
arms happened during that war.
A lot of advances in technology and the ways that we kill each other.
[D] And up until that summer of Gettysburg, [Ab] it was fought by all volunteer armies, but we
had to institute the first draft in our history as a country because all the people dying
in this war were Americans and we were running out of [E] people.
Now, all of those volunteers, if you asked any of them why they were fighting, you'd
get a different answer from almost everybody, which is one of the things that the title
of the book comes from.
There's a lot of real characters.
Joshua Chamberlain, who was the commander of the 20th Maine, he was a college professor
and he joined the army and raised a regiment [Ab] because he believed he was fighting against
the institution of slavery.
This person who's speaking to you in this song is a composite character based on three
people who actually lived in two of the three died fighting with the 20th Maine.
And he is an NCO.
He's a sergeant.
He's one of the guys that everything Joshua Chamberlain, his colonel, knows about being
a soldier, he learned from this character in the book.
And that's probably the way that it was.
I mean, when the Finney and Rebegins basically sort of wind down in the 1850s for the moment,
and a lot of guys landed in the United States with one marketable skill and they joined the army.
So a lot of the professional soldiers in that army came from Ireland.
Now, this guy, if you asked him, and it's in the book, the title comes from a conversation
he has with Colonel Chamberlain where he asks him what he's fighting for.
He believes he's fighting class war because he believes that the system he's fighting
against in the southern United States is the same system that he fought against in Ireland.
And it never ceases to amaze me.
I love my job because the pinko shit that I can sneak in on a bluegrass record is like,
[E]
[D]
[E]
[D]
[E]
[A] I am Corinne and I'm a fighting man.
And I come from [G] County Clare in the Brettswood, Haney, [D] for Finney.
So I took my lever [B] there and across the ocean in the Irie and the [G] violet's trouble float.
And the captain's [A] brother's a railroad man and met us at the boat.
So I joined up with the [G] 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, I'm a [A] fighting man.
Marching south in the pouring [E] rain and we're all going down to Dixieland.
[G] [E]
[A] I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and I fight for [G] Chamberlain.
Because he stood [G] right with us when [A] the Johnny's came like a banshee [B] on the wind.
[A] When the smoke cleared out of her Gettysburg, many [G] a mother wept.
Many a good [D] boy died this year and he [B] smelled just like death.
I [E] am Corrine of the [G] 20th Maine and I march to hell [A] and back again for Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
And we're all going down to Dixieland.
[G] [E]
[B]
[D]
[G] [E]
[B]
[A] I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and a damn [G] old gentleman whose only worth is [B] a father's name and the sweat of a working man.
We [A] come from the farms and the city streets, hundreds, [G] far and the land.
Shed our blood [B] in the battle of the seed and now we're all American.
I am Corrine of the 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, [A] I'm a fighting man.
I'll be [A] back this way [Em] again because we're all going [E] down to Dixieland.
[G]
[B] [E]
[D] [E] [G]
[E]
[B]
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So, _ _ this next song I wrote some years ago, and it's, I stole the character that's speaking
to you in this song _ [E] just outright from a great book called The Killer Angels by Michael Schara, _
which is _ a _ _ novel _ _ _ about the greatest battle of the American Civil War, which was the Battle of Gettysburg. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] Greatest battle because it was one of the most _ monumental fuck-ups on both sides.
_ _ _ One army didn't know where the other army was.
They bumped into each other accidentally. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And there were 55 _ ,000 casualties over three days, _ killed and wounded.
_ A lot of those wounded later died because, you know, amputees didn't survive in the way
that they do now. _
Some of the first, you know, battlefield amputations took place in that war.
Trench warfare was originated in that war.
_ Automatic weapons, the first weapons that could fire one shot after another and repeating
arms happened during that war.
A lot of advances _ in technology _ and the ways that we kill each other.
_ _ _ [D] And _ _ _ up until that summer of Gettysburg, _ [Ab] it was fought by all volunteer armies, but we
had to institute the first draft in our history as a country because all the people dying
in this war were Americans and we were running out of [E] people.
_ _ Now, _ _ _ all of those volunteers, if you asked any of them _ why they were fighting, you'd
get a different answer from almost everybody, which is one of the things that the title
of the book comes from.
There's a lot of real characters.
Joshua Chamberlain, who was the commander of the 20th Maine, _ he was a college professor
and he joined the army and raised a regiment [Ab] _ because he believed he was fighting against
the institution of slavery.
_ This person who's speaking to you in this song is a composite character based on three
people who actually lived in two of the three died fighting with the 20th Maine. _
_ And he is an NCO.
He's a sergeant.
He's one of the guys that everything Joshua Chamberlain, his colonel, knows about being
a soldier, he learned from this character in _ the book.
And that's probably the way that it was.
I mean, when the Finney and Rebegins basically sort of wind down in the 1850s for the moment,
and a lot of guys landed in the United States with one marketable skill and they joined the army.
So a lot of the professional soldiers in that army _ came from Ireland. _ _
Now, this guy, if you asked him, and it's in the book, the title comes from a conversation
he has with Colonel Chamberlain where he asks him what he's fighting for.
He believes he's fighting class war because he believes that the system he's fighting
against in the southern United States is the same system that he fought against in Ireland.
And it never ceases to amaze me.
I love my job because the pinko shit that I can sneak in on a bluegrass record is like, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ I am Corinne and I'm a fighting man.
And I come from [G] County Clare in the Brettswood, Haney, [D] for Finney.
So I took my lever [B] there and across the ocean in the Irie and the [G] violet's trouble float.
And the captain's [A] brother's a railroad man and met us at the boat.
So I joined up with the [G] 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, I'm a [A] fighting man.
Marching south in the pouring [E] rain and we're all going down to _ Dixieland. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and I fight for [G] _ Chamberlain.
Because he stood [G] right with us when [A] the Johnny's came like a banshee [B] on the wind.
_ [A] When the smoke cleared out of her Gettysburg, many [G] a mother wept.
_ Many a good [D] boy died this year and he [B] smelled just like death.
I [E] am Corrine of the [G] 20th Maine and I march to hell [A] and back again for Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
And we're all going down to Dixieland.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and a damn [G] old gentleman _ whose only worth is [B] a father's name and the sweat of a working man.
We [A] come from the farms and the city streets, hundreds, [G] far and the land.
Shed our blood [B] in the battle of the seed and now we're all American. _ _
_ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, [A] I'm a fighting man.
I'll be [A] back this way [Em] again because we're all going [E] down to Dixieland.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ So, _ _ this next song I wrote some years ago, and it's, I stole the character that's speaking
to you in this song _ [E] just outright from a great book called The Killer Angels by Michael Schara, _
which is _ a _ _ novel _ _ _ about the greatest battle of the American Civil War, which was the Battle of Gettysburg. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] Greatest battle because it was one of the most _ monumental fuck-ups on both sides.
_ _ _ One army didn't know where the other army was.
They bumped into each other accidentally. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ And there were 55 _ ,000 casualties over three days, _ killed and wounded.
_ A lot of those wounded later died because, you know, amputees didn't survive in the way
that they do now. _
Some of the first, you know, battlefield amputations took place in that war.
Trench warfare was originated in that war.
_ Automatic weapons, the first weapons that could fire one shot after another and repeating
arms happened during that war.
A lot of advances _ in technology _ and the ways that we kill each other.
_ _ _ [D] And _ _ _ up until that summer of Gettysburg, _ [Ab] it was fought by all volunteer armies, but we
had to institute the first draft in our history as a country because all the people dying
in this war were Americans and we were running out of [E] people.
_ _ Now, _ _ _ all of those volunteers, if you asked any of them _ why they were fighting, you'd
get a different answer from almost everybody, which is one of the things that the title
of the book comes from.
There's a lot of real characters.
Joshua Chamberlain, who was the commander of the 20th Maine, _ he was a college professor
and he joined the army and raised a regiment [Ab] _ because he believed he was fighting against
the institution of slavery.
_ This person who's speaking to you in this song is a composite character based on three
people who actually lived in two of the three died fighting with the 20th Maine. _
_ And he is an NCO.
He's a sergeant.
He's one of the guys that everything Joshua Chamberlain, his colonel, knows about being
a soldier, he learned from this character in _ the book.
And that's probably the way that it was.
I mean, when the Finney and Rebegins basically sort of wind down in the 1850s for the moment,
and a lot of guys landed in the United States with one marketable skill and they joined the army.
So a lot of the professional soldiers in that army _ came from Ireland. _ _
Now, this guy, if you asked him, and it's in the book, the title comes from a conversation
he has with Colonel Chamberlain where he asks him what he's fighting for.
He believes he's fighting class war because he believes that the system he's fighting
against in the southern United States is the same system that he fought against in Ireland.
And it never ceases to amaze me.
I love my job because the pinko shit that I can sneak in on a bluegrass record is like, _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] _ I am Corinne and I'm a fighting man.
And I come from [G] County Clare in the Brettswood, Haney, [D] for Finney.
So I took my lever [B] there and across the ocean in the Irie and the [G] violet's trouble float.
And the captain's [A] brother's a railroad man and met us at the boat.
So I joined up with the [G] 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, I'm a [A] fighting man.
Marching south in the pouring [E] rain and we're all going down to _ Dixieland. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and I fight for [G] _ Chamberlain.
Because he stood [G] right with us when [A] the Johnny's came like a banshee [B] on the wind.
_ [A] When the smoke cleared out of her Gettysburg, many [G] a mother wept.
_ Many a good [D] boy died this year and he [B] smelled just like death.
I [E] am Corrine of the [G] 20th Maine and I march to hell [A] and back again for Colonel Joshua Chamberlain.
And we're all going down to Dixieland.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine and a damn [G] old gentleman _ whose only worth is [B] a father's name and the sweat of a working man.
We [A] come from the farms and the city streets, hundreds, [G] far and the land.
Shed our blood [B] in the battle of the seed and now we're all American. _ _
_ I am Corrine of the 20th Maine, did I tell you, friend, [A] I'm a fighting man.
I'll be [A] back this way [Em] again because we're all going [E] down to Dixieland.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _