Chords for Todd Snider - "Ballad Of Spider John" (Willis Alan Ramsey)

_ [A] I was _ [Am] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [Am] _ I'm gonna try this I was doing this when I first got here.
There's a guy
You've probably heard of him if you've heard of me, but there's a guy named Willis Alan Ramsey
If you haven't heard of him, happy Mother's Day _ _ _ _
It's _ it may be a lot of people say it's the finest America Americana record ever and one of the first he made it in
1972 he was 21 years old.
He got discovered by _ _ _
_ Leon Russell and they signed him to shelter records and he made this one record
Leon Russell produced it and it was
_ masterful _ in my opinion
_ _ _ _ and then
he when they they asked him to do another one and he just
_ _ I've met him since he's just still in it's a I don't want him.
I mean, I don't want to fuck with you Willis
_ been a minute _ _ _ _
But he's still working on it and he sort of sees he's in a funny spot with it, but all those
_ all those songs went on to get recorded by somebody else _ _ and
Man, I just don't if you haven't heard that record just really enjoy that after you know
Stop listening this shit and go but the record starts with this song
I think Jimmy Buffett went on to do this song, but maybe some other cats _
_ _ _ [C] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Am] _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] I
Spotted John [C] my name friend
_ [G] [D] In between friends and I sure would be [A] [C] obliged
I could share your [G] company
_ _ On _ _ _ _
[Am] my [C] way from nowhere _ _
[D] Running from [G] my _ peers _
[Am] Running [C] from things I used [G] to be _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
I
[Am] Know my words sound [C] strange to you
But [D] if you wait until my [G] song is sung and my story [Am] is told [C] you might come [G] understand
_ _ How _ _ [Am] I'm old and [G] [C] burning with the spinning [G] running [D] out [G] of time
When [Am] I long [C] go here or flush in [D] my hand
_ _ I _ [G] [Em] was
_ _ _ Fool I was
[A] _ _ banks [G]
do pigeon
[Em] _ _ _ _
Robin my own kind [A] _ _
I _ [Em] _ thought I love my blue
_ _ Thought [A] _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ [F] I'd _ [C] found a life to suit my [B] _ style
[G] _
_ Here I said old spider John
[Fm] Robin [C] me _ _ long tall and handsome _ _ [G] _ spider [F] John will load it
[C] _ _ _ Taking ransom
_ _ Then [D] _ _ _ [A] one [Bm] day I [C] met down there
[D] She was accused thing.
[G] I just swear [A] that some [C] wind
It ever [G] blown my _ way _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] I
Really [C] she had no idea of [D] my lustrous
[G] _ _
Occupation.
Oh, she [Am] thought I was [C] a saint not a sinner gone
[G] _ _ _ _ _
[C] _ _ _ [G] _ Spider _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ he [C] loved it Lily so much.
[D] He could not confess his [G] sin.
Oh knew [Am] if it did
[C] Lily would surely take [G] her _ _ _ _
[C] _ [G] But [Am] then the word got [G] [C] around Lily left [G] town and [D] never saw [G] her again
His [A] heart [G] caught me [C] turning caught in his heart [G] [D] degree _ _ _
_ Well, I [Em] was
_ _ Supermarkets [Bm] fool I [A] was more _ banks do [Em] pigeon
_ _ Robin _ my own
[A] _ _ _
Kind _ [Em] I lost my blues
_ [A] On I paid my [G] dues
[F] I [C] thought I had found a life to suit my [G] _ style
_ [Am] _
_ Here I [G] said old spider John [Fm] Robin me
_ [C] long tall and handsome
_ _ [G] _ spider John [F] will load it
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _
Well, _ _ _ _ _ _
[Am] that is all my [C] story _ _
[G] It's [D] been these 30 years since I took to [Am] the road to [C] find my precious _ [G] Jewel one
_ _ [C] _ _ _
[Em] [Am] If you [C] see my Lily won't [G] you give [Am] up [G] my regard?
Tell her [Am] old spider got [G] tangled [C] in the black web.
That is [G] fun
_ [C] But [G] your old [Am] spider got [G] tangled [C] in the black web, that is [G] fun _ _ _ _
Old [A] spider [D] got tangled [C] in the black web [G] that _ is [C] fun _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _