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East Texas Red chords by
James Talley
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Key: D major•
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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Down in the scrubble country
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G

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of the southeast Texas gold
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D

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There used to ride a brakeman,
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a brakeman double tub
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Well, they worked the town of Kilgore
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G

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In Longview, twelve miles down
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Travelers all called him East Texas Red
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The meanest bull around

If you rode by night or the broad daylight
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In the wintry wind or the sun

You would always see Little

East Texas Red
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E

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A

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Sportin' his smooth runnin' gun
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D

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Tails got switched down

to stems and manes
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G

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And everybody said
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The meanest bull on them shiny irons
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A

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D

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Was that Little East Texas Red

It was on a cold and a windy morning,
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long towards nine or ten

A couple of boys on the hunt of a job
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A

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were out in that blizzardy wind
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Hungry and cold,

they knocked on the doors
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of the working people around
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For a piece of meat, a carrot or a spud,
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and a boil of stew, the round

Well, East Texas Red,

he come down the line,
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and he swung off hole number two

He kicked their bucket over a bush,
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he dumped out all of their stew
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And the traveler said,

Mr. East Texas Red,
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G

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you better get your business fixed
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You're gonna ride your little black train
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just one year from today

Well Red, he laughed, climbed the bank
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and swung on the side of a wheeler

The boys caught a tanker to Seminole
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Then a west to Amarillo
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They got them a job of oil field work
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And they followed the pipeline down
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Took them lots of places before
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That year had rolled around

Then on a cold and a windy morn
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They conked in a gulf -bound train

They shivered and shook,

though in their clothes
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To the scrubble, lads again
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In warm suits of clothes and overcoats
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They walked into a store
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Paid a man for some meat and stuff
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to boil that stew once more

Well the Thais,

they tracked down that cinder dump
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Till they came to that same old spot

Where East Texas Red

just one year ago
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Had dumped their last stew pot
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And the smoke of their fire

went higher and higher
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And the red come down the line

His head ducked low in the wintery wind
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He swung off full number nine
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He walked on down to the jungle camp
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And he came to that same old spot
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And there sat the same two men again
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A round that seems to pop

Red went to his knees and he hollered,
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Please don't pull your trigger on me
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I did not get my business fixed
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But he did not get his say
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Or a gun wheeled out of an overcoat
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Had played that old one too
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Red was dead, as the other two men
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sat down to eat their stew
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The original key of East Texas Red by James Talley is D major.

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

No capo is required for this song.

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

The tempo of East Texas Red is approximately 68 beats per minute.

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