East Texas Red chords by Arlo Guthrie
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Verse 1
(C major) (D major) (A major) (G major) Down in the scrub oak
timbers of the (C major) southeast
Texas
Gulf (G major)
There used to ride a brakeman,
and a (A major) brakeman double tough
(D major) He worked (G major) the town (A major) (D major) of
(G major) Kilgore
And
(C major) Longview nine miles (G major) down
And us (C major) travelers called him
(G major) East
Texas
Red
The meanest (D major) bull around (G major)
If you rode by night, by broad daylight
In the (C major) wind and the snow and (G major) sun
You'd always see
Little
East
Texas
Red
Sportin' (A major) his smooth runnin' (D major) gun
Well the (G major) town got switched down
the stems and the mains
And (C major) everybody said (G major)
That the (C major) meanest man on the (G major) shiny irons
Was
Little
East (D major)
Texas
Red
(G major) It was early in the mornin' and along
(C major) George 9 or (G major) 10
When a couple of boys on
the hunt of a jowl
Stood (A major) in the blizzardy wind (D major)
Hungry (G major) and cold they knocked on the doors
Of the (C major) workin' folks around
(G major) For a (C major) piece of meat or (G major) a spud or two
To boil their (D major) stew around (G major)
Red come down the cinder dung
And he (C major) flagged down number two (G major)
He kicked their bucket over a bush
And (A major) dumped out all of their (D major) stew
One trav (G major) eler said,
Mr.
East
Texas
Red, you (C major) better get your business fixed right, (G major)
because
you're (C major) going to ride your little (G major) black
train just one year (D major) from tonight.
(G major) Well
Red just laughed as he climbed the bank,
(C major) swung on the side of a wheel (G major) er, the boy was
took on a tanker to
Seminole
And (A major) westward to
Amarillo (D major)
They (G major) struck them a job of ball field work
And they (C major) followed the pipeline down (G major)
And it (C major) took them lots of (G major) places
Till one year had (D major) rolled around (G major)
On one cold and wintry day,
they (C major) hooked them a
Gulf -bound train
(G major) They shivered and they shook
with dough in their clothes
To
(A major) Old
Kelgore again
(D major) Over (G major) hills of sand and hard -froze roads
where the (C major) cotton wagons rode (G major)
Out (C major) past the town of
(G major) Kelgore and on to
(D major) O 'Longview
(G major) Where their warm suits of clothes
and their overcoats
They'll (C major) walk into a (G major) store
They'll pay the man for
some meat and stuff
They'll (A major) boil their stew once (D major) more
They walked (G major) the tides back to the yard
And they (C major) came to the same old (G major) spot
Where
(C major) East
Texas
Red just one (G major) year ago
Had dumped their (D major) last steel (G major) pot
The smoke from their fire
went higher and higher
And a (C major) man come down the line
(G major) He ducked his head in the blizzardy
wind and (A major) waved old number nine (D major)
He walked (G major) off down the cinder dump
and he'd (C major) come to the same old spot
(G major) And (C major) there was the same two (G major) men
again around that (D major) same stew pot
(G major) Red went to his knees and he hollered,
Please don't (C major) pull that trigger on me. (G major)
I never did get my business fixed,
(A major) Red never got his say. (D major)
A (G major) gun wheeled out of an overcoat
And it (C major) laid the old one (G major) to
Red (C major) lay dead.
While the (G major) other two men sat
down (D major) to eat their stew (G major)
Outro 1
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East Texas Red
Arlo Guthrie
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