Walk Through the Bottomland chords by Emmylou Harris and Lyle Lovett

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Intro 1

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Verse 1
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A New Jersey lady I knew long     ago
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And she was a lady I say
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But she met a cowboy
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who rode on the rodeo
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And he stole her heart straight away

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The New Jersey lady she

loved him so true

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Another love she never had

But cowboys are lonesome

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and cowboys are blue

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And they make the ladies so sad

Verse 3
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Sing me a melody
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Sing me a blues
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Walk through the bottomland
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without  no shoes
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The Brazos she's running scared
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She heard the news
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Walk through the bottomland
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without  no shoes

Verse 4
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The New Jersey lady knew
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he loved her too
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An d you know she tried
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to hold on
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But the rodeo life was the
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life     that he knew
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He had to keep drifting along

Verse 5
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She never married and
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she      never would
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And all of the people
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they'd say
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The New Jersey lady she
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just     ain't no good
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To follow a cowboy   that way

Verse 6
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Sing me a melody
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Sing me a blues
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Walk through the bottomland
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without  no shoes
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The Brazos she's running scared
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She heard the news
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Walk through the bottomland
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The

Verse 7
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lady she'd sing him
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to sleep in the night
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And then in the morning
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he'd go
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She loved the darkness an
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d hated  the light
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Along with that damn rodeo

Verse 8
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The New Jersey lady the
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day that     he died
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She covered him over with
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clay
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And feeling the wind in
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the night    as she cried
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She heard the old cowboy say

Verse 9
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Sing me a melody
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Sing me a blues
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without  no shoes
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The Brazos she's running scared
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She heard the news
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Walk through the bottomland
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without no shoes

Verse 10
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Sing me a melody
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Sing me a blues
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Walk through the bottomland
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without  no shoes
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The Brazos she's running scared
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She heard the news
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without no shoes