1. . Watson
2. Foregone
3. Burying Davy
4. I 4 U & U 4 Me
5. Row Jimmy
6. Sonnet
1. . Watson
Originally tabbed by: Daysleeper_05
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The air all painted pallid grey, the storm was comin' in
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Folks were lining out in all directions
Me an Holt and Henry Short were pitchin' on the skiff,
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Trying to make it home before the night
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And the grey waves were rollin',
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Bold the brave, brave ocean
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And rolled us suckers in
Well I don't keep to goings on, I tend to stick with kin
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But Watson had it in from the beginning
He built that house on Chatham bend, a whitewashed knotted pine
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Ninety acres furrowed for the cane
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And he drove it down from Georgia
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His dad a martyred soldier
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In the war between the States
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Lord, bring down the flood
Wash away the blood
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And drown these everglades
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And put us in our place
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We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
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We layed him in his grave
Till I'm dust I'll never know why he came ashore
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With all those killers gathered on the shorelines
Kicking holes in ugly mud, with trigger fingers pinched
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A brace of rifles bristled in the wind
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And we towed his body northbound
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And buried him all face down
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With a good view into hell
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Lord, bring down the flood
Wash away the blood
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And drown these everglades
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And put us in our place
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We layed Edgar Watson in his grave
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We layed him in his grave
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We layed him in his grave
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We layed him in his gra____ve
2. Foregone
CAPO 2
Here arise and say it's a honey
All this light that daybreak brings
And the ancient bands that brung me
To the bed where you're sleeping safe
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And we had agreed on Henry
Long before a flutter felt
And so it will be till memory
Makes a shadow of ourselves
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
All would lead to believe that it's not
But it's foregone
It's foregone
Can it be that this is given
This awaking from long dark night
Of a soul so on and wizened
Sleep away to set to rights
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
All would lead to believe that it's not
But it's foregone
It's foregone
It's foregone
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
All would lead to believe that it's not
And the reach and the wrecks and the wrong
It's foregone
It's foregone
It's foregone
It's foregone
Carry on
Ooh carry on
3. Burying Davy
Bring out your weepin' weeds
Put on your ten-pint bowlers
Bring out your weepin' weeds
We're buryin' Davy
We're buryin' Davy.
Gather the screws and spades
Oil up your mud-brown slicker
Gather the screws and spades
We're buryin' Davy
We're buryin' Davy.
Who'll plane the old pine bows?
Who'll set his legs uncrooked?
Who'll plane the old pine bows?
For buryin' Davy
For buryin' Davy.
Mother wept no tears
Brother grew unruly
Mother wept no tears
At buryin' Davy
At buryin' Davy.
Bring out your weepin' weeds
Put on your ten-pint bowlers
Bring out your weepin' weeds
We're buryin' Davy
We're buryin' Davy.
4. I 4 U & U 4 Me
Originally tabbed by: Daysleeper_05
DROP , CAPO 4
One, two, one two three four!
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You're all made a tattered heel and you're the only constant all my life
We could go together some and we could get each other through the night
We are one and we are two and we are simply wicked to a T
Never a better thing were said than I for you and you were made for me
Well I heard that your plans were all fouled up
And I heard that you hit the wall
Hit your smarting arms and skinned your knee!
Will you drop your sling and stones?
You can't make it on your own!
You see? It's I for you and you were made for me
When you were young, your parents said
You act like that you do it on your own time
So you grew up crooked, bent,
So barely that you couldn't walk a straight line
Well here we are, right where we came, and it's
Pretty sticky wicked, isn't it dear?
A few missteps along the way but I'm really pretty happy to be here
So this a toast to the old town drunk, to the bums of the broadway bridge!
Raise a glass to the bones of the circle K!
Will you drop your sling and stones?
You can't make it on your own!
You see, It's I for you and you were made for me
Will you see, It's I for you and you were made for me
Well I heard that your plans were all fouled up and I
Heard that you hit the wall
Hit your smarting hearts and skinned your knee
Will you drop your slinging' stones
You can't make it on your own
You see? It's I for you and you were made for me
You see? it's I for you and you were made for me
And you were made for me
And it's I for you and you were made to be for me
5. Row Jimmy
Julie catch a rabbit by his tail
Come back steppin' like to walk on air
Get back home where you belong
And don't you run off no more.
Don't hang your head, let the two time roll
Grass shack nailed to a pine wood floor
Ask the time baby I don't know
Come back later, gonna let it show.
I say row Jimmy row,
Gonna get there, I don't know,
Seems a common way to go,
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
Here's a half dollar if you dare
Double twist when you land on air,
Look at Julie down below,
The levee doin' the do-pas-o.
I say row Jimmy row,
Gonna get there, I don't know,
Seems a common way to go,
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
Broken heart don't feel so bad,
You ain't got much of what you thought you had.
Rock your baby to and fro
Not too fast and not too slow.
I say row Jimmy row,
Gonna get there, I don't know,
Seems a common way to go,
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
BRIDGE
That's the way it's been in town,
Ever since they brought the jukebox down.
Broken hearts don't buy no more,
Not the way it's done before.
I say row Jimmy row,
Gonna get there, I don't know,
Seems a common way to go,
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
I say row Jimmy row,
Gonna get there, I don't know,
Seems a common way to go,
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
Get out and row, row, row, row, row.
6. Sonnet
Originally tabbed by: Unregistered
Guido, I wish that you and Lapo and I
Could be taken by magic and placed in a boat
Where every rising swell
Would sweep us at our will across the sky
Then tempest never, or weather dire
Could ever make our blissful living cease
No, but abiding in a steady, blessed peace
Together in harmony
BRIDGE
And Lady Vanna and Lagia then
She who looms the thirty best
Would join us at the enchanter's behest
And there we'd talk of love without an end
To make those ladies happy in the sky
With Lapo enchanted too, and you and I
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