East Texas Red chords by Tom Russell
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Intro 1
(D major) (A major) (G major) (D major) (G major) (D major)
Verse 1
Down (D major) in
the scrub oak country
To the (G major) southeast Texas (D major) Gulf
There used to ride a brakeman,
A brake (A major) man double tough.
(D major) He worked the town of Kilgore,
(G major) And Long view twelve miles (D major) down, (G major)
And the travelers all said
Little (D major) East Texas (G major) (B minor) Red
He (A major) was the meanest bull (D major) around.
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Verse 2
(D major)
If you rode by night or the broad daylight
In the (G major) wintery wind or the sun, (D major)
You would always see little East
Texas Red
(G major) Just a sportin' (E minor) his smooth-
run (G major) nin' gun (A major) .
(D major) And the tale got switched down
the stems and main (G major) s,
And everybody said (A major) (D major)
That the (G major) meanest bull
On them (B minor) shiney irons
(A major) Was that little East Texas Red. (D major)
Verse 3
It was (D major) on a cold and a windy
morn'
It was along (G major) towards nine or ten, (D major)
A couple of boys on the
hunt of a job
They stood (G major) (E minor) that blizzardy (D major) (A major) wind.
(D major) Hungry and cold they
knocked on the doors
(G major) Of the workin' people around (D major)
For a (G major) piece of meat
And a (B minor) carrot or spud (A major) just
a boil of stew around. (D major)
Verse 4
(D major) East Texas Red come down the line
And he (G major) swung off that old
number (D major) two.
He kicked their bucket over a bush
And he dumped (G major) (E minor) out all of their (G major) stew. (A major)
The (D major) travelers said, "Little East Texas Red,
You better (G major) get your business straight (D major)
Cause (G major) you're gonna ride
Your little (B minor) black train (A major) just one
year from today." (D major)
Verse 5
Well (D major) Red he laughed and he
climbed the bank
And he (G major) swung on the side of a (D major) wheeler,
The boys caught a tanker to Seminole
Then (G major) west to Amarillo. (A major)
They (D major) caught them a job of oil- field work
And (G major) followed a pipeline down. (D major)
It (G major) took them lots of places (B minor)
Before (A major) that year
Had rolled around.
(D major)
Verse 6
Then on a cold and windy day
They caught (G major) them a Gulf- bound (D major) train.
They shivered and shook with the
dough in their clothes
To the (G major) scrub oak (E minor) flats (G major) (A major) again,
With their (D major) warm suits of clothes
and overcoats
They walked (G major) into a store. (D major)
They (G major) paid that man
For some (B minor) meat and stuff
(A major) Just a boil of stew once (D major) more.
Verse 7
The ties (D major) they tracked down
that cinder dump
And they (G major) come to the same old (D major) spot
Where East Texas Red just a year ago
Had (G major) dumped (E minor) their last (G major) stew (A major) pot.
Well, the smoke (D major) of their fire went
higher and higher
And Red (G major) come down the line. (D major)
With his head tucked low
in the wintery wind
He waved (E minor) old number (A major) nine.
He walked (D major) on down
through the jungle yard
And he (G major) came to the same old spot (D major)
And there (G major) was the same
two (B minor) men again
(G major) Around (A major) that same stew (D major) pot.
Verse 8
Red (D major) went to his knee's
and he hollered
"Please, (G major) don't pull your trigger on (A major) (D major) me.
I did not get my business straight."
But he (E minor) did not get his (A major) say.
A (D major) gun wheeled out of an overcoat
And it (G major) played that old one (A major) two, (D major)
(G major) And Red was dead when
the (B minor) other two men
(A major) Sat down to eat their (D major) stew.
East Texas Red
Tom Russell
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