Chords for Utah Phillips - Nevada Jane
Tempo:
102.3 bpm
Chords used:
A
E
D
F#m
B
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
There I was in the Helsinki bar up in Butte, Montana
Been doing an organizing drive for the industrial workers of the world with Bob
Marko to great wobbly and a meat cutter from Seattle the woman who?
Owned the the Helsinki bar.
I was the last of Fintown everything else all rest of Fintown had already been mined out
Why because the Finns were socialists when they got here and of course that was the the immigrant community that was under the most
vicious attack in the early days
well
the woman who owned the place they say
closed it for about 10 minutes and drove away and came back with a very very very old woman by the name of Gilda Hockanen and
She said now you boys are wobblies and
This woman knows a story that you ought to know and now but don't provoke her
She will talk to you in her own good time
She sat down began to knock back that that harsh Finlandia vodka along with us and
Finally she said well, you know you wobblies it's a head of your Union them
So yeah, you started it was big Bill Heywood, and he used to live here right here in Butte, Montana.
Oh
Yeah, she said he was married to a little woman by [A] the name of Nevada Jane
She would with crippled she'd fallen from her horse and couldn't walk
Well, he would carry her down to the train station every morning from the little cabin
They lived in and and sent her there and she would organize the women of the town while he was in town dehorning
I said mrs.
Hockanen.
What is that dehorning?
Well, I was well
You wanted the miners to come out of the mines and go to a meeting but instead they head for the bar
So while they were working underground you go to all the bars in town with axe handles and make sure they were closed
Said Bill Heywood would come back to the train station
Well bloodied he got beat up a lot and a pick Nevada Jane up in his arms hang a kid off of each shoulder
There was a two of them and he could be seen in the failing light walking back up to that cabin
well, I wrote that story down in my notebook and one of the
Trips I was making with Kate Wolfe.
She was as usual going through my notebook and she said well now this is a story
That's different from those
Heavily
Masculine hard-edged songs you sing about the labor movement.
This is a little softer
Why don't you make a song about that?
And
Yes, I did
Lenin's [E] turned out [A] in folds [D] of glowing white
[F#m] Are you lying there?
[B] Alone [E] again tonight
[A] He's marching [E] again
[A] Through the cold [D] November rain, [F#m] you know, he'll come [E] back [A] home, Nevada Jane and
When he [E] stumbles in [A] with blood [D] upon his shirt
[A]
washing [F#m] up alone
[F#] [B] [E] Just to hide the hurt
[A]
He'll lie down by [E] your [A] side and wake you with [D] your [A] name
You'll [F#] hold him [B] in your arms, [A] Nevada Jane
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the [E] shoulders strong and wide
[A] She never [E] thought to scold him [A] or even [D] to complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Em] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
Nevada [E] Jane went riding [A]
her pony [D] took a fall
[A] The doctor [F#m] said she never [B]
could walk [E] again at all
[A] But Bill could [E] lightly lift [A] her the big [D] hands rough and plain [F#m] would gently carry [E] home, [A] Nevada Jane
For the storms [E] of Colorado
[A] They rained [D] for ten long [F#m] years the mines of old Montana [B] were filled with blood [E] and [A] tears
California [E] Arizona
[A] Yeah, and you [D] taught her the name [F#m] of the man [Bm] who [E] always [A] loved Nevada Jane
And now [E] the ranks are scattered [A]
like [D] leaves upon the [A] breeze
And with [F#m] them all the [B] memories of [F#] harder [E] times than these [A] but some [E] things never change
[A] They always [D] stay the same [A] just [F#] like the way [E] Bill loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the shoulders [E] strong and wide
[A] She never [E] thought to [A] scold him or even to [D] complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Bm] always [E] loved [A] Nevada Jane
Yeah, [F#m] Big [Bm] Bill [E] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] [A] [N]
Been doing an organizing drive for the industrial workers of the world with Bob
Marko to great wobbly and a meat cutter from Seattle the woman who?
Owned the the Helsinki bar.
I was the last of Fintown everything else all rest of Fintown had already been mined out
Why because the Finns were socialists when they got here and of course that was the the immigrant community that was under the most
vicious attack in the early days
well
the woman who owned the place they say
closed it for about 10 minutes and drove away and came back with a very very very old woman by the name of Gilda Hockanen and
She said now you boys are wobblies and
This woman knows a story that you ought to know and now but don't provoke her
She will talk to you in her own good time
She sat down began to knock back that that harsh Finlandia vodka along with us and
Finally she said well, you know you wobblies it's a head of your Union them
So yeah, you started it was big Bill Heywood, and he used to live here right here in Butte, Montana.
Oh
Yeah, she said he was married to a little woman by [A] the name of Nevada Jane
She would with crippled she'd fallen from her horse and couldn't walk
Well, he would carry her down to the train station every morning from the little cabin
They lived in and and sent her there and she would organize the women of the town while he was in town dehorning
I said mrs.
Hockanen.
What is that dehorning?
Well, I was well
You wanted the miners to come out of the mines and go to a meeting but instead they head for the bar
So while they were working underground you go to all the bars in town with axe handles and make sure they were closed
Said Bill Heywood would come back to the train station
Well bloodied he got beat up a lot and a pick Nevada Jane up in his arms hang a kid off of each shoulder
There was a two of them and he could be seen in the failing light walking back up to that cabin
well, I wrote that story down in my notebook and one of the
Trips I was making with Kate Wolfe.
She was as usual going through my notebook and she said well now this is a story
That's different from those
Heavily
Masculine hard-edged songs you sing about the labor movement.
This is a little softer
Why don't you make a song about that?
And
Yes, I did
Lenin's [E] turned out [A] in folds [D] of glowing white
[F#m] Are you lying there?
[B] Alone [E] again tonight
[A] He's marching [E] again
[A] Through the cold [D] November rain, [F#m] you know, he'll come [E] back [A] home, Nevada Jane and
When he [E] stumbles in [A] with blood [D] upon his shirt
[A]
washing [F#m] up alone
[F#] [B] [E] Just to hide the hurt
[A]
He'll lie down by [E] your [A] side and wake you with [D] your [A] name
You'll [F#] hold him [B] in your arms, [A] Nevada Jane
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the [E] shoulders strong and wide
[A] She never [E] thought to scold him [A] or even [D] to complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Em] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
Nevada [E] Jane went riding [A]
her pony [D] took a fall
[A] The doctor [F#m] said she never [B]
could walk [E] again at all
[A] But Bill could [E] lightly lift [A] her the big [D] hands rough and plain [F#m] would gently carry [E] home, [A] Nevada Jane
For the storms [E] of Colorado
[A] They rained [D] for ten long [F#m] years the mines of old Montana [B] were filled with blood [E] and [A] tears
California [E] Arizona
[A] Yeah, and you [D] taught her the name [F#m] of the man [Bm] who [E] always [A] loved Nevada Jane
And now [E] the ranks are scattered [A]
like [D] leaves upon the [A] breeze
And with [F#m] them all the [B] memories of [F#] harder [E] times than these [A] but some [E] things never change
[A] They always [D] stay the same [A] just [F#] like the way [E] Bill loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the shoulders [E] strong and wide
[A] She never [E] thought to [A] scold him or even to [D] complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Bm] always [E] loved [A] Nevada Jane
Yeah, [F#m] Big [Bm] Bill [E] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] [A] [N]
Key:
A
E
D
F#m
B
A
E
D
There I was in the Helsinki bar up in Butte, Montana
Been doing an organizing drive for the industrial workers of the world with Bob
Marko to great wobbly and a meat cutter from Seattle the woman who?
Owned the the Helsinki bar.
I was the last of Fintown everything else all rest of Fintown had already been mined out
Why because the Finns were socialists when they got here and of course that was the the immigrant community that was under the most
vicious attack in the early days
well
the woman who owned the place they say
closed it for about 10 minutes and drove away and came back with a very very very old woman by the name of Gilda Hockanen and
_ She said now you boys are wobblies and
This woman knows a story that you ought to know and now but don't provoke her
She will talk to you in her own good time
She sat down began to knock back that that harsh Finlandia vodka along with us and _
Finally she said well, you know you wobblies it's a head of your Union them
So yeah, you started it was big Bill Heywood, and he used to live here right here in Butte, Montana.
_ Oh
Yeah, she said he was married to a little woman by [A] the name of Nevada Jane
She would with crippled she'd fallen from her horse and couldn't walk
Well, he would carry her down to the train station every morning from the little cabin
They lived in and and sent her there and she would organize the women of the town while he was in town dehorning
I said mrs.
Hockanen.
What is that dehorning?
Well, I was well
You wanted the miners to come out of the mines and go to a meeting but instead they head for the bar
So while they were working underground you go to all the bars in town with axe handles and make sure they were closed
Said Bill Heywood would come back to the train station
Well bloodied he got beat up a lot and a pick Nevada Jane up in his arms hang a kid off of each shoulder
There was a two of them and he could be seen in the failing light walking back up to that cabin
_ well, I wrote that story down in my notebook and one of the
Trips I was making with Kate Wolfe.
She was as usual going through my notebook and she said well now this is a story
That's different from those
Heavily
_ Masculine hard-edged songs you sing about the labor movement.
This is a little softer
Why don't you make a song about that?
And
Yes, I did _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Lenin's [E] turned out [A] in folds [D] of glowing white
[F#m] _ Are you lying there?
[B] Alone [E] again tonight
[A] He's marching [E] again
[A] Through the cold [D] November rain, [F#m] you know, he'll come [E] back [A] home, Nevada Jane and _ _
When he [E] stumbles in [A] with blood [D] upon his shirt
[A]
washing [F#m] up alone
[F#] _ [B] [E] Just to hide the hurt
[A]
He'll lie down by [E] your [A] side and wake you with [D] your [A] name
You'll [F#] hold him [B] in your arms, [A] Nevada Jane _
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the [E] shoulders strong and wide
_ [A] She never [E] thought to scold him [A] or even [D] to complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Em] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ _ Nevada [E] Jane went riding [A]
her pony [D] took a fall
[A] The doctor [F#m] said she never [B]
could walk [E] again at all
[A] But Bill could [E] lightly lift [A] her the big [D] hands rough and plain [F#m] would gently carry [E] home, [A] Nevada Jane
For the storms [E] of Colorado
[A] They rained [D] for ten long [F#m] years the mines of old Montana [B] were filled with blood [E] and [A] tears
California [E] Arizona
[A] Yeah, and you [D] taught her the name [F#m] of the man [Bm] who [E] always [A] loved Nevada Jane
_ And now [E] the ranks are scattered [A]
like [D] leaves upon the [A] breeze
And with [F#m] them all the [B] memories of [F#] harder [E] times than these [A] but some [E] things never change
[A] They always [D] stay the same [A] just [F#] like the way [E] Bill loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ [D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the shoulders [E] strong and wide
_ [A] She never [E] thought to [A] scold him or even to [D] complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Bm] always [E] loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ Yeah, [F#m] Big [Bm] Bill [E] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Been doing an organizing drive for the industrial workers of the world with Bob
Marko to great wobbly and a meat cutter from Seattle the woman who?
Owned the the Helsinki bar.
I was the last of Fintown everything else all rest of Fintown had already been mined out
Why because the Finns were socialists when they got here and of course that was the the immigrant community that was under the most
vicious attack in the early days
well
the woman who owned the place they say
closed it for about 10 minutes and drove away and came back with a very very very old woman by the name of Gilda Hockanen and
_ She said now you boys are wobblies and
This woman knows a story that you ought to know and now but don't provoke her
She will talk to you in her own good time
She sat down began to knock back that that harsh Finlandia vodka along with us and _
Finally she said well, you know you wobblies it's a head of your Union them
So yeah, you started it was big Bill Heywood, and he used to live here right here in Butte, Montana.
_ Oh
Yeah, she said he was married to a little woman by [A] the name of Nevada Jane
She would with crippled she'd fallen from her horse and couldn't walk
Well, he would carry her down to the train station every morning from the little cabin
They lived in and and sent her there and she would organize the women of the town while he was in town dehorning
I said mrs.
Hockanen.
What is that dehorning?
Well, I was well
You wanted the miners to come out of the mines and go to a meeting but instead they head for the bar
So while they were working underground you go to all the bars in town with axe handles and make sure they were closed
Said Bill Heywood would come back to the train station
Well bloodied he got beat up a lot and a pick Nevada Jane up in his arms hang a kid off of each shoulder
There was a two of them and he could be seen in the failing light walking back up to that cabin
_ well, I wrote that story down in my notebook and one of the
Trips I was making with Kate Wolfe.
She was as usual going through my notebook and she said well now this is a story
That's different from those
Heavily
_ Masculine hard-edged songs you sing about the labor movement.
This is a little softer
Why don't you make a song about that?
And
Yes, I did _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Lenin's [E] turned out [A] in folds [D] of glowing white
[F#m] _ Are you lying there?
[B] Alone [E] again tonight
[A] He's marching [E] again
[A] Through the cold [D] November rain, [F#m] you know, he'll come [E] back [A] home, Nevada Jane and _ _
When he [E] stumbles in [A] with blood [D] upon his shirt
[A]
washing [F#m] up alone
[F#] _ [B] [E] Just to hide the hurt
[A]
He'll lie down by [E] your [A] side and wake you with [D] your [A] name
You'll [F#] hold him [B] in your arms, [A] Nevada Jane _
[D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the [E] shoulders strong and wide
_ [A] She never [E] thought to scold him [A] or even [D] to complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Em] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ _ Nevada [E] Jane went riding [A]
her pony [D] took a fall
[A] The doctor [F#m] said she never [B]
could walk [E] again at all
[A] But Bill could [E] lightly lift [A] her the big [D] hands rough and plain [F#m] would gently carry [E] home, [A] Nevada Jane
For the storms [E] of Colorado
[A] They rained [D] for ten long [F#m] years the mines of old Montana [B] were filled with blood [E] and [A] tears
California [E] Arizona
[A] Yeah, and you [D] taught her the name [F#m] of the man [Bm] who [E] always [A] loved Nevada Jane
_ And now [E] the ranks are scattered [A]
like [D] leaves upon the [A] breeze
And with [F#m] them all the [B] memories of [F#] harder [E] times than these [A] but some [E] things never change
[A] They always [D] stay the same [A] just [F#] like the way [E] Bill loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ [D] Had you seen the way he holds [A] her as though she [D] was a bride
[A] Children riding [B] on the shoulders [E] strong and wide
_ [A] She never [E] thought to [A] scold him or even to [D] complain [F#m] and Big Bill [Bm] always [E] loved [A] Nevada Jane
_ Yeah, [F#m] Big [Bm] Bill [E] always loved [A] Nevada Jane
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
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