Tablature let him roll - Guy Clark

          



 

  Date: Thu, 9 Nov 95 08:22:28 CST

  From: davidb@efficient.com (David Byboth)

  

  

  

                    Let Him Roll

                    By Guy Clark

                   From Old No. 1

             Submitted by David Byboth

                davidb@efficient.com

         C

  He's a wino, tried and true

  F

  Done about everything there is to do

  G

  He worked on freighters, he worked in bars

  C                         G

  He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars

  

  It was white port, that put that look in his eye

  That grown men get when they need to cry

  And he sat down on the curb to rest

  And his head just fell down on his chest

  

  He said "Every single day it gets

  A little bit harder to handle and yet..."

  And he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered

  And the words just rolled off down in the gutter

  

  Well he was elevator man  in a cheap hotel

  In exchange for the rent on a one room cell

  He's old in years beyond his time

  Thanks to the world, and the white Port wine

  

  And he said "Son", he always called me son

  He said, "Life for you has just begun"

  And he told me a story that I heard before

  How he fell in love with a Dallas whore

  

  Well he could cut through the years to the very night

  When it ended, in a whore house fight

  And she turned his last proposal down

  In favor of being a girl about town

  

  It's been seventeen years right in line

  And he ain't been straight none of the time

  Been too many days of fightin' the weather

  And too many nights of not being together

  

  So he died........ (guitar for one verse)

  

  Well when they went through his personal affects

  In among the stubs from the welfare checks

  Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door

  An address in Dallas, and nothin' more

  

  The welfare people provided the priest

  A couple from the mission down the street

  Sang Amasing Grace, and no one cried

  'Cept some woman in black way off to the side

  

  We all left and she was standing there

  Black veil covering her silver hair

  And One-Eyed John said her name was Alice

  And she used to be a whore in Dallas

  

  Sing:

          C     F

  Let him roll, Lord let him roll

  G                                C    G

  Bet he's gone to Dallas Rest his soul

          C     F

  Let him roll, Lord let him roll

  G

  He always said that heaven

      C             G

  Was just a Dallas Whore....

  

  

  Here is the tab for the finger pick as simplified as I could get

  it.  I believe you have to capo up 2 frets to play with the

  album.  I haven't played with the album on this song in a long

  time so I'm not certain. There are 16 dashes to each measure

  so timing is somewhat represented.

  

  I have tabbed two stanzas of the pick.  It continues the same way

  throughout the song.  During the guitar solo, emphasize the

  melody on the high strings.  If anyone tries to learn this from

  the tab, I would appreciate any feedback you can give me on how

  useable it was as it took me a while to figure out from the

  album.  If you learn this song, the Randall Knife is very

  similar.

  

  NOTE: The "h" above the staff means hammer the note directly

        below it.

  

              G      C                 F               G

                                       h   h   h   h            h

  E|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|

  B|------------1-3-|------------31--|---1---1---1---1|--0---1-13---3--|

  G|----------0-----|----------------|02--02--02--02--|----------------|

  D|----------------|--2---2---2-----|--3---3---3---3-|-----------0----|

  A|------------0-2-|3---3---3-------|----------------|--2---2-2-------|

  E|----------------|----------------|----------------|3---3-----------|

  

    C       G        C                 F               G

           h                           h   h   h   h            h

  E|----------------|0-------0-------|----------------|----------------|

  B|--1---130---1-3-|------------31--|---1---1---1---1|--0---1-13---3--|

  G|----------0-----|----------------|02--02--02--02--|----------------|

  D|--2---2---------|--2---2---2-----|--3---3---3---3-|-----------0----|

  A|3---3-------0-2-|3---3---3-------|----------------|--2---2-2-------|

  E|--------3-------|----------------|----------------|3---3-----------|

  

  

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  David Byboth - Test Guy                              Efficient Networks, Inc.

  email: davidb@efficient.com                          (214) 991-3884 x 351

  

   


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