Josh Ritter - Murder on my mind
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Ok so the song is pretty simple just uses
the D G and A and follows the same chord structure
through most of the song cept for the second and third verse...
but even then its not that big a deviation!
This was Josh's first song and my first tab so if there are any mistakes I'm sorry!
Murder On My Mind
DI'm awful sad to say
GThat my partner died last week
DAnd I'm so shook up inside,
GI can barely even spAeak,
DI don't know how he died
GIt all came as such a shGock......
But Di suspect he started feeling ill
AWhen i hit him with a roDck
DWe where partners in a claim
GUp in gold hill Idaho,
DAnd we'd yet to find something
GGolden except the yAellow snow,(first song)
DMy partner joe god bless his Gsoul
HAad hit the mother loaDd
D"Well I'll use my gold" said my partner Joe
GTo get my education
DAnd if any is left when I am through
GI'll give it to sick chiAldren
DWell i thought that Joe was crazy
GFor to hear him talk like thGat.....
DSo i decided it was best for joe
AIf he took a little nDap
DSo i picked up a big old piece of gold,
GAnd I hit joe on the head,
DAnd joe shut his weary eyes,
GAnd lay down on the rocky bAed,
D"you take some rest my faithful friend"
GSaid i as joe lay down
DAnd let me load this wagon
GWith the gold that you have foAund.
(This is my first song I'm not proud)
So like the true friend that i was
I loaded up the ore
While my partner joe lay silently
sleeping on the floor
And when the gold was loaded
And i was set to get to town.....
I tried to wake my sleepy friend
But he refused to come around.
"Well if that don't wake you up,
I know something that just might"
Said I as i lit up
A few sticks of dynamite,
I settle down and waited,
For them to wake Joe from his dream....
But alas i put the sticks to close and Joe blew to smithereens,
And if Joes luck wasnt bad enough
He lay close toe the mine,
And when the dynamite went off,
he was covered by mountain slime,
Alas said I "all evidence
Is gone of poor Joe's life....
All that left is a ton of gold
And a little less dynamite,
So now Joe rests in pieces,
And i on a water bed,
But it doesnt bother me a bit,
That my partner joe is dead,
For while some people might say
That miner got the shaft.....(first song)
I'm the only one that knows
That Old Joe had a blast
Hope it sounds ok!
Superdoor