East Texas Red chords by
Arlo Guthrie

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Key: G major•

Verse 1

C

C

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D

D

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A

A

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G

G

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Down in the scrub oak

C

C

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timbers of the southeast

Texas

G

G

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Gulf

There used to ride a brakeman,

A

A

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and a brakeman double tough

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D

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G

G

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A

A

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D

D

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He worked the town of

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G

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Kilgore

And

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C

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G

G

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Longview nine miles down

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C

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And us travelers called him

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G

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East

Texas

Red

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D

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G

G

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The meanest bull around

If you rode by night, by broad daylight

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C

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G

G

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In the wind and the snow and sun

You'd always see

Little

East

Texas

Red

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A

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D

D

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Sportin' his smooth runnin' gun

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G

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Well the town got switched down

the stems and the mains

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C

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And everybody said

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C

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G

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That the meanest man on the shiny irons

Was

Little

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D

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East

Texas

Red

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G

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It was early in the mornin' and along

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C

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G

G

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George 9 or 10

When a couple of boys on

the hunt of a jowl

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A

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D

D

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Stood in the blizzardy wind

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Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors

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C

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Of the workin' folks around

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For a piece of meat or a spud or two

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G

G

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To boil their stew around

Red come down the cinder dung

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G

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And he flagged down number two

He kicked their bucket over a bush

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D

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And dumped out all of their stew

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G

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One traveler said,

Mr.

East

Texas

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C

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G

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Red, you better get your business fixed right,

because

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C

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G

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you're going to ride your little black

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D

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train just one year from tonight.

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G

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Well

Red just laughed as he climbed the bank,

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C

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G

G

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swung on the side of a wheeler, the boy was

took on a tanker to

Seminole

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A

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And westward to

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D

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Amarillo

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They struck them a job of ball field work

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C

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And they followed the pipeline down

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C

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G

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And it took them lots of places

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D

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G

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Till one year had rolled around

On one cold and wintry day,

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C

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they hooked them a

Gulf -bound train

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G

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They shivered and they shook

with dough in their clothes

To

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A

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Old

Kelgore again

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D

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G

G

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Over hills of sand and hard -froze roads

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C

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G

G

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where the cotton wagons rode

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C

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Out past the town of

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G

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Kelgore and on to

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D

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O 'Longview

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G

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Where their warm suits of clothes

and their overcoats

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C

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G

G

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They'll walk into a store

They'll pay the man for

some meat and stuff

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A

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D

D

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They'll boil their stew once more

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G

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They walked the tides back to the yard

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C

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G

G

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And they came to the same old spot

Where

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C

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East

Texas

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G

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Red just one year ago

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D

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G

G

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Had dumped their last steel pot

The smoke from their fire

went higher and higher

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C

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And a man come down the line

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G

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He ducked his head in the blizzardy

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A

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D

D

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wind and waved old number nine

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G

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He walked off down the cinder dump

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C

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and he'd come to the same old spot

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G

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C

C

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G

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And there was the same two men

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D

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again around that same stew pot

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G

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Red went to his knees and he hollered,

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C

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G

G

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Please don't pull that trigger on me.

I never did get my business fixed,

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A

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D

D

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Red never got his say.

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G

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A gun wheeled out of an overcoat

C

C

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G

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And it laid the old one to

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C

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Red lay dead.

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G

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While the other two men sat

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D

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G

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down to eat their stew

Outro 1

C

C

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G

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D

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G

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Chords

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The original key of East Texas Red by Arlo Guthrie is G major.

The primary chords used in East Texas Red are C, D, A, G.

No capo is required for this song.

Yes, this version uses open chords like C, D, A, G, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of East Texas Red is approximately 83 beats per minute.

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