Open D tuning

Section 1

Run up the “b” (now a) string, starting on 9 7 5 2 5 0  

9 7 5 2 5 9 

Em add 2.  Sometimes: To open   D Em add 2 


Run: G A D A G  G A D Em add 2 open Em add2 open D

Bridge.  F (bar 3 in open D), G (bar 5), open D  bar 3, 5, open D,

Em add2  D, Em add2 D



Section 1

 Sunset  sawgrass prairie sure is pretty 

Cornflower blossoms brush against your knees

They say everyone’s got one            good love in ‘em

(open D for a measure) possibly

They say every daughter, every son

Just needs one , of em,  to believe 

(old line: hard to believe that was true of Lee) 


Section 1 

(repeat the basic F# etc line to the funky chord) 

She was smart that way, and  so she finally figured

Figured out how much he’s missing deep inside 

When she left, she left behind the pickup 

When she left, she left  on our one good bike


Run 

What kind of man splits a 12 pack with children

What kind of man shoots an elk on tribal land 

He’d talk about Nepal 

the Berlin wall

And what it all 

meant to him (open D) 

Talk about a row of pine  trees, tall

He never took the time to plant

 

Section 1

We were there that year  the 13 day night blizzard

9  foot drifts with frozen steer inside

To watch that man, bare head, bare hands

Working his snow shovel.  

(open D) 

I felt warm and safe there with him. 

I felt  very much alive.


Section 1

The best thing come spring. The rope swing 

Ripping through the air so fast 

Sky water tumble  

sky water sky water  

 Splash  

Sky water, 

Sky water sky water

splash





Only suckers sleep away the summer

The long Wyoming winters taught us that

Mountains. All you ever hear about Wyoming

I Never lived anywhere so flat. )


Crushed Corn Husks,. 

The snow dust  on my face

Cold Gust.  

above us. Outerspace.  

First thing come spring

Fix the Indian and   fly away.  


When spring begins 

Fix the indian

and   fly away


All the talk of canoeing that last long  stretch of river

all the way out  to Missouri, me and Dad


To see him in

his  hole diggin  

(open D) Diggins  all he knows

Diggins all he knows

Diggins  all he has 


What kind a man splits a 12 pack with children

What kind of man dresses out an elk with his bare hands 

(right there on the hood of the car) 

talk  of Taj Mahal 

South Sea Squalls 

And what it all 

meant to him (open D) 

Talk about a  wall of Pine trees, tall

He never took the time to plant




The best thing come spring the rope swing 

Ripping through the air so fast 

Sky water 

Sky water sky water 

Splash


sky water sky water  

sky sky sky sky  

splash 


(end with section 1, slow) 


10/2019