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Dave Rawlings Machine - Knuckleball Catcher Gillian Welch - Knuckleball Catcher { ** Capo on 3rd fret ** } Tab by Avi Yaacov Israel, July 29, 2014 ~ Based on a recording from October 4, 2007 - Los Angeles ~ I have a few recordings of this amazing song, and the above-mentioned (DRM show) is by far the best to my ears - Dave’s solo is super-amazing. If anyone wants it, just send me an email and I’ll have it your way asap... Since it’s yet to be released, I’m putting it under Gillian Welch as well, because who knows what record they’d release it on. I believe this is one of their very best tunes (and I believe it actually sounds better with Dave singing lead). Intro / “Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---| Verse: G C/G e|--3--------0-----------| B|--0/1------1-----------| G|--0--------0-----------| D|--0--------2-----------| A|--2--------3-----------| E|--3--------3-----------|
GCaught my eye, in a flash of lightning in the C/Grain GOut in the darkness, with a banjo in your handDs
GYou came into the firelight, to the circle from theC/G gloom A G D *thing* I was standing child like, while you got yourself in tune
And a bDridge player, could be C/Gan all-time player tGoo But a kDnuckleball catcher, onlC/Gy gets one job to doA
C/G D the move from C/G to D is He only gets on job to do a slide of the whole form two frets up “Thing” - Tu-do-do
GYou played your melody, it was too much for meC/G GIt froze my flesh down, to minus nine degrees D
GI was passing a grave yard, full of flowers on mothC/Ger’sA day G D *thing* That’s the last time I let a stranger rip my heart this way
“Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---|
Now a gDood mother, could be a C/Gdashboard drummer toG And a bDridge player, be an allC/G time player when heA’s through C/GBut a knDuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do
*Notice, D is usually C/G, two frets up Solo also played while Gillian plays the “Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---| When your trial was finished, you slipped out in the quiet Not trying to follow, my shoes just caught on fire So I... searched the camp ground, I never saw your face again Well you had, a devil woman, just a bluegrass friend Cause a left-winger, could be a bluegrass singer too, and that’s a hard lonesome truth And some hard liquor, could make a guitar picker out of you But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do Tu-do-do Tu-do-do Tu-do-do D chord, is usually (relative to capo): e|---0----| B|---3----| G|---0----| D|---4----| A|---5----| E|---5----|