Capo: 3 Tuning: E A D G B E

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Twisted Laurel" - Performed by Robert Earl Keen From the Album The Happy Prisoner: The Bluegrass Sessions Written by The Red Clay Ramblers' Tommy Thompson ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: JamesS E-mail: icurheart@verizon.net Tuning: Standard EADGBE Capo 3rd Fret Key of A# Chords used below indicate form only and not actual notes played Lyrics taken from REK's version may differ slightly from original version Capo G C D D7 A Em 3 --------|----3------0-----2---2----0-----0-----| 3 --------|----0------1-----3---1----2-----0------| 3 --------|----0------0-----2---2----2-----0-------| 3 --------|----0------2-----0---0----2-----2--------| 3 --------|----2------3-----x---x----0-----2---------| 3 --------|----3------x-----x---x----x-----0----------| Intro C D G Em C D G

Just A^Ccross the Blue R^Didge Where the H^Gigh Meadows ^EmLay And the^C Galax Spreads T^Dhrough The New Mown ^GHay

There's a R^Custy Iron B^Dridge 'Cross a ^GShady Rav^Emine Where the ^AHard Road Ends and Turns to ^DClay

With a ^CSuitcase in His Hand The L^Gonesome Boy S^Emtands ^AGazin' at the River Slidin' ^Dby Beneath his F^D7eet

But the ^CDark Water S^Dprings through the ^GBlack Rocks and ^EmFlows Outta' s^Cight Where the ^DTwisted Laurel G^Grows

C D G Em C D G

Past the C^Coal-tipple T^Downs in the C^Gold December R^Emain Into ^CCharleston Runs the ^DNew River T^Grain

Where the H^Cillsides are B^Drown, and the B^Groad Valleys S^Emtained By a ^AHundred Thousand Lives of Work and ^DPain

In a T^Car-paper Shack out of ^GTown Across the ^EmTrack Stands an ^AOld Used-up Man Trying to ^DCall Something ^D7Back

But his ^COld Memories S^Dtained Like the C^Gity in the ^EmHaze And ^Chis Days have Run T^Dogether Like the ^GRain

And the ^CDark Water ^DSprings Through the ^GBlack Rocks and ^EmFlows Out of S^Cight Where the T^Dwisted Laurel ^GGrows

Robert Earl Keen - Twisted laurel