Walk Through The Bottomland Chords by Lyle Lovett

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_ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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_ [F#] _ _ _ _
A New [B] Jersey lady [C#]
I knew [F#] long ago,
[B]
and she was a [A#] _ lady [C#] I say.
_ _ _ _ [F#]
But she [B] met a cowboy [C#] who rode on [F#] the rodeo,
[B] and he stole [C#] her heart [F#] straight away.
_ _ A New [B] Jersey lady, [C#] she loved him [F#] so true,
_ [B]
another love [F#] she never [C#]
had.
_ But _ [F#] _
cowboys [B] are lonesome, [F#] and cowboys are blue,
[B] and they make [F#] the ladies so sad.
_ _ _ [B]
Sing me [F#] a melody, [B]
sing [F#] me a blues,
[B]
walk [F#] through the bottom land without no shoes.
[B]
The brass says [F#] she's a-runnin' [B] scared, she [F#] heard the news.
[B] _
Walk [F#] through the bottom [C#] land _ _ [F#] without no [B] shoes.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _
[F#] A New Jersey [B] lady, [C#]
now he loved [F#] her too, _
[B] and you know she [F#] tried to [C#] hold on.
_ _ [F#] But the rodeo [B] life [C#] was the life that [F#] he knew,
[B] he had to [C#] keep driftin' [F#]
along.
_ _ _ She never [B] married, [C#] and she never would,
[B] and all of [F#] the people they'd [C#] say.
_ _ _ _ [F#] The New Jersey [B] lady, [G#] she just ain't no good,
[B] to follow [C#] a cowboy [F#] that way.
_ _ _ _ [B]
Sing [F#] me a melody, [B]
sing [F#] me a blues,
[B]
walk through [F#] the bottom [C#] land without [F#] no shoes.
[B] The brass says [F#] she's a-runnin' [B] scared, she [F#] heard the news.
[B]
Walk through [F#] the bottom [C#] land without [F#] no shoes.
[B] _
_ _ [C#] _ _ [B] The lady, [F#] she'd sing him [C#] to sleep in [F#] the night,
[B] and then in the [F#] morning [C#] he'd go.
_ _ _ _ [B] She loved the [F#] _ darkness and hated the light,
[G#]
along with that [A#] damn _ [C#]
rodeo.
_ _ _ _ [F#]
New Jersey [B] lady, [C#] the day that he [F#] died,
[B] she covered the [F#] mower with [C#]
clay.
_ _ _ [F#] And feelin' the [B] wind, _ [C#] the night as she [F#] cried,
[B] she heard [C#] the old cowboy [F#] _
_ _ say.
_ [B]
Sing [F#] me a melody, [B]
sing [F#] me a _ [B] blues,
walk through [F#] the bottom [C#] land without [F#] no shoes.
[B] The brass says [F#] she's a-runnin' [B] scared, she [F#] heard the news.
[B]
Walk through [F#] the bottom land without no shoes.
_ [B]
Sing [F#] me a melody, [B]
sing [F#] me a [B] blues,
walk [F#] through the bottom land without no shoes.
[B] The brass says [F#] she's a-runnin' [B] scared, she [F#] heard the _ [B] news.
Walk [F#] through the bottom [C#]
land without [F#] no shoes.
[B] Won't you walk through the bottom land _ _ _
_ [C#] without [C#m] no shoes.
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