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Talking Guitar Blues chords by
Ramblin' Jack Elliott
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Key: F major•
Verse 1
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Ab
Ab
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G

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Back in 1927,
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A

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E
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I had a little farm
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A

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and I called that heaven,
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the prices up

and the rain come down,
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and I hauled my crops all into town,
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I got the money.
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G

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Bought clothes and groceries
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A

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and a rare pack

Fed the kids and raised
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D

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me a family
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The rain quit, the wind got high
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And a black hole dust storm filled the sky
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And I swapped my farm for a ford machine
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And I forded full of this gas

I leeked and started
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Rockin' and rollin' out
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A

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of the dust bowl
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Travelin' across the mountains,
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way over towards that old pizza place,

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Bm
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the Isle of Oranges.
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It was way up yonder in a
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mountain road
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A

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that had a hot motor and a heavy load.
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D

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And I was goin' pretty fast,
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it wasn't even stoppin',
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just a -bouncin' up and
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down like popcorn.
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Poppin' had a breakdown.
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Kind of a sort of a nervous

bust down there
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Some kind was a feller there,
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A

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a mechanic feller
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Charged me thirteen dollars,
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said it was N -Giant Puppets
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Yeah, way up yonder in a
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mountain road
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Way high up in a piney wood
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G

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And I gave that Ford a rollin' shove
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And I was gonna coast as fur as I could
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Commence to roast
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Pickin' up speed was a hairpin turn,
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I did make it!
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Man alive, I'm a -tellin' you,
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the fiddles me guitars really flew,
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that Ford took off like a blind squirrel
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and it flew halfway around the world,
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scattered wives and childrens
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all over the side of that
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mountain.
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We got out to the west coast, broke,
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so dad got me hungry,

I thought I'd croak,
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and I bummed up a spud or two,
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and my wife fixed up a tater stew.
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We poured the kid full of it.
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It a mighty thin stew, though,

you could read the magazine
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right through it.

I always have figured
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that if that student had been
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just a little bit thinner,

some of them there politicians
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could have seen through it.

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An acoustic guitar head with tuning pegs

Tuning:Standard Open Tuner
Chords

  • D

  • G

  • Ab

    4

  • A

  • E

  • Bm

    2

Capo: 3

Transpose: 0

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The original key of Talking Guitar Blues by Ramblin' Jack Elliott is F major.

The primary chords used in Talking Guitar Blues are F, Bb, Cb, C, G, Dm.

To play in the original key, place your capo on the 3 fret.

Yes, this version uses open chords like F, Bb, Cb, C, making it a great song for beginner guitarists.

The tempo of Talking Guitar Blues is approximately 56 beats per minute.

You can easily change the key of Talking Guitar Blues using our Transpose button located in the toolbar. This will automatically update all chord diagrams on the page to match your new key.

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Yes, we have integrated a Mini-Tuner directly on this page. Use it to quickly check your string pitch (Standard Tuning: E A D G B E) before you start playing along with Ramblin' Jack Elliott.

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