Southwestern Pilgrimage - Michael Martin Murphey Chords
Chords: D, A/E, D/F#, G, A, D**, A/E**, D/F#**, G**, A**
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Genre: country, folk, rock
Worked out on request for svowtw from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the US.
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LEGEND: all chords for 4 beats except where ** (2 beats)
[Intro]
| D A/E | D/F# G | A | G |
| A | G A | D | D |
[Verse 1]
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
I’m tired of drinking your muddy water, and sleepin’ in your hollow love.
G A G** A** D
I’m gonna take up with a stranger, get myself a fast-movin' dog.
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
Goodby you empty closets, my true love of seven years.
G A G** A** D
I’m on a Southwestern pilgrimage, to be a frontier sonneteer.
[Verse 2]
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
Goodbye you auctioneers, you guillotine racketeers.
G A G** A** D
I’m looking for a holy man, out here on the old frontier.
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
I’m gonna take along a lady who ain’t never seen a mountain before.
G A G** A**
I’m on a Southwestern pilgrimage, where the middle class can't hunt me down
D
no more.
[Interlude]
| A | D A/E | D/F# G | A |
| G | A | G A | D |
[Verse 3]
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
I should have been a gypsy all along, and I know that now.
G A G** A** D
But I got slowed up, I let a city woman drag me down.
A D** A/E** D/F#** G**
And the contracts and the circus acts, they made it so I couldn't relax any
A
more,
G A G** A** D
but my stomach never hurt me much when I was sleepin’ on the floor.
[Verse 4]
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
That old buzzard’s flying all around that same old Texas sky,
G A G** A** D
and I take that as a sign, it's time to either lay me down or fly.
A D** A/E** D/F#** G** A
And so, it's out of my house, into my old truckin’ clothes.
G A G** A** D D*
I’m on a Southwestern pilgrimage. Where the wheel stops, nobody knows!
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