--------------------------------------------------------------------------- High Noon – Tex Ritter --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard Tex Ritter High Noon (1952) (Dimitri Tiomkin/Ned Washington) Now on: "My Rifle, My Pony and Me - Movie and TV Soundtracks " A great Western song. The arrangement is special, too: sparse in an unusual way. Tex Ritter's voice is very dominant while a dampened drum beats out a haunting rhythm pattern throughout (see below: "perc"). An accordion plays accompanying chords or tracks the vocal line and sometimes there are strummed guitar chords. As the chords are not always made explicit I sometimes "reconstructed" them from the vocal line or the chords that go before and follow afterwards. INTRO perc |x-xxx-xxx-xxxxxx|x-xxx-xxx-xxxxxx|x-xxx-xxx-xxxxxx|x-xxx-xxx-xxxxxx| (no chord) C C C e|----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|0---------------| B|----------------|----------------|1-----------1---|1---------------| G|----------------|----------------|0-----------0---|0---------------| D|----------------|----------------|2-----------2---|2---------------| A|----------------|----------------|3-----------3---|3---------------| E|----------------|----------------|----------------|----------------| Intro | (no chord) | (no chord) | C | C |

^CDo not forsake me, oh my darling C *F C/E Dm *F 1-1-2-3-x-x On this our wedd'n' day-----ay C/E x-1-0-2-x-x C Am Dm 1-3-2-0-x-x Do not forsake me, oh my darling ^EWait, wait ^Galong

^CI do not know what fate awaits me ^CI only know I must be ^Fbrave ^A (Dm) C C7 And I must face a man who hates me ^FOr lie a ^Ccoward, ^Fa craven ^Ccoward ^FOr lie a ^Ccow^Amard ^Fin ^Gmy ^Cgrave

^FOh, to be torn twixt love and duty ^CS'pposin' I lose my fair haired beauty ^FLook at that big hand move along ^CNearin' high ^Gnoon ^FHe made a vow while in state's prison ^CSaid it would be my life or hisn' ^FmI'm not afraid of death but oh ^CWhat will I do if you ^Dmleave m^Ge?

^CDo not forsake me, oh my darling ^CYou made that promise as a ^Fbride ^A (Dm) C C7 Do not forsake me, oh my darling ^FAlthough you're ^Cgrievin', ^FI can't be ^Cleavin' ^FNow that I ^Cneed ^Amyou ^Fby ^Gmy ^Cside

Wait ^Falong, wait ^Calong Wait ^Falong, wait ^Calong

--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Movie version The version played over the opening credits of the movie is in a different key (capo 1 st fret: C# instead of C) and there are slightly different chords in the middle 8 as well as in the final verse. The lyrics are different, too. In order to make the song more accessible to people who hadn't watched the movie, the version released as a single is stripped of any direct reference to the character "Frank Miller" and the explicit statement that the singer has to "kill" someone is replaced by the confession that the singer needs his wife to stand by him. Capo 1st fret (Chords as above except as indicated) Do not forsake me, oh my darling On this our wedd'n' day Do not forsake me, oh my darling Wait, wait along The noon day [?] train will bring Frank Miller If I'm a man I must be brave And I must face that deadly killer Or lie a coward, a craven coward Or lie a coward in my grave Oh, to be torn twixt love and duty S'pposin' I lose my fair haired beauty Look at that big hand move along

^CNearin' high ^Emnoon He made a vow while in state's prison Said it would be my life or hisn' I'm not afraid of death but oh What will I do if you leave me?

Do not forsake me, oh my darling You made that promise when we wed Do not forsake me, oh my darling

^FAlthough you're ^Cgrievin', ^FI can't be ^Emleavin' Until I shoot Frank Miller dead

Wait along, wait along Wait along, wait along

Tex Ritter - High noon