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Billy Strings Billy Plays A Lot Of Walks And Lics In Between, But This Should Be The Main Cords. Play The Alternate Bass Line On B7 No Capo Rythem Goes Boom-chuck

^EMy parents raised me tenderly, They ^B7had no child but ^Eme. My mind being placed on ^Arambling, With them I couldn't ^Eagree

Just to leave my aged parents

And ^B7them no more to ^Esee.

^EThere was a wealthy gentleman Who ^B7lived there very near ^Eby. He had a beautiful^A daughter, On her I cast an ^Eeye. She was so tall and ^Aslender, So pretty and so ^Efair.

There never was a girl in this whole wide world

With ^B7her I could comp^Eare.

^EI asked her if it differed If ^B7I crossed over the ^Eplain. She said, "It makes no ^Adifference If you never return a^Egain."

We too shook hands and parted,

And I ^B7left my girl be^Ehind.

^EI started out in this wide world Strange ^B7faces for to s^Eee. I met little Maggie ^AWalker And she fell in love with ^Eme. Her pockets all lined with ^Agreenback And her labor I'll grow ^Eold,

Now if you'll consent to marry me

I'll ^B7say I'll roam no m^Eore.

^EI traveled out one morning, To the ^B7salt works I were ^Ebound. And when I reached the s^Aalt works I viewed the city all a^Eround. Work and money were ^Aplentiful And the girls all So ^EKind

But the only object to my heart

Was a ^B7girl in Tennes^Esee.

^EI traveled out one morning Down ^B7on the market s^Equare. The mail train being on ^Aarrival, I met the carrier ^Ethere. He handed me a ^Aletter, So's I could under^Estand

That the girl I left in Tennessee

Had ^B7married another ^Eman.

^EI drove on down a little further And ^B7found that it was ^Etrue. I turned my horse and ^Abuggy around But I didn't know what to ^Edo. I turned all around and ^Aabout there -- Bad company I'll r^Eesign;

I'll drive all about from town to town

For the ^B7girl I left be^Ehind.

Billy Strings - Maggie walker blues