Yeah boy, she goes to the bar, sophisticate pulls up in his car
A hopeful youth waits for the first star to come out
The sky above can be so mean, the clouds cover what should be seen
And there ain’t much left to keen in my book

Hangin’ on to someone else, he tells you that he sells
And you see it like all’s well, I ain’t jealous
Though you used to listen to me, my inner thoughts have made you flee
I know you were just tryin’ to be what you want to be
I let you in to see me for real
And you walked right out that’s what I feel
You said you needed time to be alone[C-D][G-C-D]

Chorus:
And like the youth I looked above
Feeling stranded without love
The time was wrong, and you left me in a hole
You left me in hole (you left me in a hole)
You left me in hole

Banjo

The rain it comes, the rain it goes the question is, she friend or foe
The story-teller looks to his toes, he’s stuck here
The dragon’s breath is on my neck which way is home, hold on a sec
The bartender put a bottle of beer on the table

Many people, they believe that Jesus came here to relieve
All the problems that we breathe on each other
And I don’t care just what you do, or what you think, that’s up to you
You see, those thoughts of yours arent new to me at all
Is it these thoughts that made you believe
That there’s nothing here so you shall leave
While I sit here with my guitar in my hand

Chorus

Mandolin

Guitar

A hungry baby starts to cry, an old man’s about to die
And all I can do is sit back and sigh, what’s my problem
Ignore the problem, that’s the key said the woman beneath the tree
If your eyes are closed, you can’t see the sunrise

The phone, it rings, who could it be, it ain’t her, and it’s not for me
Forgetting’s as easy as 1-2-3 my friends say
Her face is still all too clear, her leaving me was my biggest fear
Something’s got to help me steer away from her
You have your life, and I have mine
Maybe we’ll meet again some other time
Down the long road, on another plain

Chorus

You left me in hole (you left me in a hole)…

The nights grew cold, her heart grew lonely, along the streets she would walk and shed cry
Her heart was tender, her thoughts went yonder, shed gently kiss the ring shed wear upon her finger

Chorus:
Distance makes the heart grow fonder
But passion makes the fire bright
Loneliness and Confusion
Darkness and Light

One night while dreamin, she saw her true love, by the old rock he sat a-weepin
His eyes were shinin, his head turned skyward, asking God above, how could this be?
She jumped up from her bed, her heart was poundingshe went out to calm herself in the cool night air
She started roamin, by the edge of town, while the lover watched her go all alone

She soon grew weary, her body tired, by an old rock wall she settled down
Her lover approachingapproaching gently, lonely love was his favorite hunting ground

Chorus

The very next morning, the lady rising, she felt confusion, like never before
She awoke in her own bed with a tender feeling thought she heard the sound of her sweet soldier aproachin
A knock came upon the door, she jumped up running, only to see a strange soldier with medals a-shinin
He said Sad ladysad news I bring youYour soldier died last night while the bullets were flyin
No, no, no, this cant befor just last evening, my soldier sang to me loves true song
Wracked with confusion, she fell a-weepin, while the lover, from his window watched all along

Chorus

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40 MILES FROM DENVER – Yonder Mountain String Band

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Tabbed by: Heath Moore
Email: jheathmoore@yahoo.com

Artist: Yonder Mountain String Band
Song Title: 40 Miles from Denver

Tuning: Standard

Intro:



Verse:
It’s a cold, cold moon out tonight
And it’s a cold, cold point on your knife
Could I call myself a man if I left by the morning light?

Chorus:
And I’d be 40 miles from Denver when you woke up all alone
I’d be 40 miles from Denver and three days from my home
In that cool mountain air, on an Appalachian trail
Ohh, life is better there

It’s a lonely road to travel on
But I’ve stood here waiting much too long
And I’d rather leave this minute than try to carry on

And I’d be 40 miles from Denver headed east bound on the track
I’d be 40 miles from Denver and trying to get back
To that cool mountain air, on an Appalachian trail
Ohh, life is better there

It’s a cold, cold moon out tonight
And it’s a cold, cold point on your knife
Could I call myself a man if I left by the morning light?

And I’d be 40 miles from Denver when you woke up all alone
I’d be 40 miles from Denver and three days from my home
In that cool mountain air, on an Appalachian trail
Ohh, life is better there (4x)

Tuning: Standard with Capo at 2
( Tab from: http://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/y/yonder_mountain_string_band/40_miles_from_denver_crd_ver_2.html )
Intro Chords:



Intro tab (the way I play it):

e|-------3-3-3-3-------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------3-3-3-3-3-3-----3-0---------3-3------1----1--0---0--0----0--0-------|
G|-------0-0-0-0-2-2-0h2-2-0-0---0---2-2------0----0--0---0--0----0--0-------|
D|-0-0-2-0-------0---------2-0h2-0h2-0-0------2-0h2---0---0--2-0h2---2-------|
A|-------2-----------------2-------------0-2-3---------0h2-------------0-2---|
E|-------3-----------------0-------------------------3------0-------0--------|

e|---------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|--1----1--0---0-0--3--1-------1--------------------------------------------|
G|--0----0--0---0-0--2--2-------0--------------------------------------------|
D|--2-0h2---0---0-0--0--3-strum-2-strum--------------------------------------|
A|-3---------2p0--------3-------3--------------------------------------------|
E|---------3------3--2--1----------------------------------------------------|

Verse:
It’s a cold, cold moon out tonight
And it’s a cold, cold point on your knife
Could I call myself a man if I left by the morning light?

Chorus:
And I’d be 40 miles from Denver when you woke up all alone
I’d be 40 miles from Denver and three days from my home
In that cool mountain air, on an Appalachian trail
Ohh, life is better there

etc.

Intro: G C D G C G

Headin’ down to the river, feelin’ all undone
Might be for the best if I just stare into the sun
So I can’t see, what a fool you made of me

Well, I am sittin’ home alone, blue as I can be
Music turned up loud as hell, it hurts but just as well
But I can hear people talking ‘bout us dear

Chorus:
By the looks I get seems I am the last to know
Apologetic eyes follow me everywhere I go
I swear I’m twenty-twenty but I never saw the signs
And now I sit alone and try to ease my troubled mind

Mandolin break

Guitar break

Headed down to the barroom to get myself a drink
Money in my pocket’s gonna help me not to think
Of you at all, no, I won’t think of you at all

Well, I swear that women, she’s like a mystery
I read those pages through and through
I still don’t have a clue ‘bout what went wrong or why she left after so long

Chorus

Banjo break

Chorus

Capo 4

E —————————————0–
B –3-0———-0-1-3-3-3-0-3/5-5-53-1-1–
G ——-0-0-0-2————————-0–
D —————————————2–
A —————————————3–
E ——————————————

Verse 1:
Dixie was the pride of Alabama
I met her on a lonesome midnight train
Rollin’ slowly out of Union Station
She was staring out the window at the rain

Verse 2:
Well Dixie was from sunny Alabama
Those old steel rails would roll to Birmingham
Mobile, her final destination
I looked down at the ticket in her hand

Chorus:
Southbound train it ain’t you I know that done her wrong
Say again that you seen it coming all along
All that she knew those sweet memories it’s true
Dixie darling caught her southbound train

Verse 3:
Dixie asked if I’d been to Alabama
Her voice was thick like some old southern night
And maybe for the sake of conversation
I said back in ’88 or ‘89

Verse 4:
She said her daddy’s fields were full of cotton
By the river that she swam in as a child
Lord she loved those sweet magnolia blossoms
And that good ol’ Honeysuckle growing wild

Chorus

Verse 5:
Dixie told me how she got to Denver
A southern gal who coudn’t stand the cold
She fell in love and left Mobile forsaken
Mistaken for a dusty pot of gold

Verse 6:
Dixie let the pieces fall together
And painted up this picture in my mind
Mobile, Alabama was a-callin’ her back
And the Pride of Alabama was on time

Chorus