Black-Throated Wind chords by 
Grateful Dead 
Key: A major•
Intro 1
E
D
E
Verse 1
E
F#m
Bringing me down
D
I'm running aground
A
Blind in the light of the
E
D
E
interstate cars
F#m
Passing me by
D
The buses and semis
A
Plunging like stone s from
E
a slingshot on Mars
Verse 2
A
D
But I'm here by the road
Bound to the load
Bm
That I picked up in ten
E
A
thousand cafes and bars
Alone with the rush of the drivers
D
who won't pick me up
Bm
The highway, the moon,
Verse 3
the clouds, and the stars
E
D
The black-throated wind wind
C#m
A
keeps on pour ing in
With its words of a life where
E
Em
C
A
D
nothing is new
C#m
Ah, Mother American Night,
A
E
A
G
I'm lost from the light
D
Oh, I'm drowning in you
Interlude 1
A
E
D
E
Verse 4
E
F#m
D
I left St. Louis, the City of Blues
A
In the midst of a storm I'd rather forget
E
I tried to pretend it came
F#m
D
to an en d
'Cause you weren't the wo
A
man I thought I once met
E
Verse 5
A
D
But I can't deny that
times have gone by
Bm
When I never had doubts
or thoughts of regret
E
D
A
And I was a man
when all this began
D
Bm
Who wouldn't think
Verse 6
twice about being there yet
E
D
The black-throated wind wind
C#m
A
keeps on pouring in
And it speaks of a life
E
Em
C
A
that passes like dew
D
C#m
A
It's forced me to see that you've
Em
E
A
G
done better by me
D
Better by me than I've done
Interlude 2
by you
A
E
D
E
A
E
Verse 7
E
What's to be found,
F#m
D
racing around
A
E
You carry your pain wherever you go
F#m
D
Full of the blues and trying to lose
A
You ain't gonna learn what you
E
A
don't want to know
Verse 8
A
So I give you my eyes,
D
Bm
and all of their lies
Please help them to learn as
E
A
well as to see
D
Capture a glance and make
Bm
D
Bm
it a dance
Of looking at you looking at me
E
Verse 9
D
The black-throated wind wind
C#m
A
keeps on pouring in
With its words of a lie that could
E
almost be true
C
A
D
A
Ah, Mother Americ an Night,
Em
A
G
here comes the light
I'm turning around, that's
D
what I'm gonna do
A
Verse 10
G
D
Goin' back home that's
A
G
what I'm gonna do
D
A
G
Turn in' around
D
That's what I'm gonna do
A
Verse 11
G
D
A
G
'Cause you've
D
done bet ter by me
A
G
D
Than I've done by you
TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE D F#m A Bm...
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D
F#m
A
Bm
C#m
Em
C
G
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