Swiss Cottage Place

(C) (C/b) (Am) (Am/g) (F) (G7)

I (C) turned down the (C/b) covers on a (Am) bed where two (Am/g) lovers
Found (F) reasons to (Am) face each new (Dm) day (Dm/c)
In a (G7) room full of memories in a house built for love
On a street down in Swiss Cottage (C) Place (G)
 

My mind just surrenders to all I remember
Come to steal the moment away
Yesterday's gone and where I stand here alone
It's a hollow ringing place called today

Last night I watched baby as she was boardin'
A Greyhound bus back to St Louis
And I couldn't let her know I knew why she was leavin' 

Not after all we've been through

Slippin' my coat from my shoulders I said hon'

It may get cold in St Louis
And the look in her eyes grew suddenly sad 

When she knew that I knew what she'd do

Now my mind surrenders to all I remember
Come to steal every moment away
Yesterday's gone and where I stand alone
It's a hollow ringing place called today

You're Not My Same Sweet Baby

Drop D Tuning 

(D) You're not my same (G) sweet (A) baby lady (D)
You're not the (G) same (A) sweet baby I (D) knew
The (A) world is all wrong girl and (G) I'm not the man
(D) Who can change it for (G) you
(D) I'll just be packing my (A) bags and silently (D) goin'

     (A) What's the good in pretending
     And (G) watching it drag on and (D) on
     (A) The good is in ending it (G) while there's the time left
     (D) To say that your mind is your (A) own

(D) You're not my (G) same sweet (A) baby (D) lady
Now the bright lights lady (G) they've taken the baby from (A) you
(G) Girl I'm not saying my bubble's so great
(D) That hard times won't break it (G) too
(D) I'll just be packing my (A) bags and silently (D) goin' 

      (A) What's the good in pretending
      And (G) watching it drag on and (D) on
     (A) The good is in ending it (Em) while there's the time left
     (A) To say that your mind is your (D) own

  You're not my (G) same sweet (A) baby (D) lady
Girl I'm not saying I (G) haven't done some changing (A) too
So (G) please stop your cryin' oh no I ain't not tryin'
To (D) lay all the blame off on (G) you
(D) I'll just be packing my (A) bags and silently (D) goin'

How I Love Them Old Songs

Capo on III

(C) Doggone my soul how I (G) love them old songs
Cause they were a comfort to me (C) when I was alone
The dancing stops but the (G) music goes on
Doggone my soul how I love them old (C) songs

     (C) Ah when I hear that double (G) Eagle guitar
     It makes me think how (C) trouble-free girl we are
     There was a time I spent my (G) nights in a bar
     (D) Playing that old juke box until (G) the honky-tonkie locked up (C)

     (C) Doggone my mind it just won't (G) leave me alone
     Keeps on reminding me I'm (C) so far from home
     Them heart breaking aching eggs and (G) bacon country songs
     Well they (D) take me back to hardwood floors (G) outdoor johns and mason jars

It's (C) all I can do to (G) believe thats its gone
That hard knocking rocking rolling (C) life that I've known
Well the dancing's all over the (G) music just goes on
Doggone my soul how I love them old (C) songs

San Francisco Mabel Joy

Drop D tuning

(D) Lord, his daddy was an honest man, (G) just a red dirt Georgia (D) farmer
His momma lived her short life having kids and baling (A) hay
(D) He had fifteen years (G) and he ached inside to wander
He jumped a freight in Waycross (A) wound up in (D) L.A.

Well the cold nights had no pity on that (G) Waycross Georgia (D) farm boy
Most days he went hungry, then the summer (A) came
(D) He met a girl known on the strip (G) as San Francisco's (D) Mabel Joy
Destitution's child born of an (A) L.A. street called (D) Shame

     (G) Growing up came quietly in the arms of Mabel (D) Joy
     Laughter found their mornings, it brought a meaning to his (A) life
     Lord on the (G) night before she left, sleep came and left that Waycross (D) country boy
     With dreams of Georgia cotton (A) and a California (D) wife

     (G) Sunday morning found him standing 'neath the red light at her (D) door
     A right across sent him reeling, put him face down on the floor (C) (C/b) (A)
     (G) In place of his Mabel Joy he found a merchant mad (D) marine
     Who growled, "Your Georgia neck is red but (C) Sonny, (C/b) you're still (A) green"

(D) He turned twenty-one (G) in a gray rock federal prison
The old judge had no mercy for that Waycross Georgia (A) boy
(D) Staring at those four gray walls in (G) silence Lord he just (D) listened
To that midnight freight he knew could take him (C) back (C/b) to Mabel (A) Joy

     (G) Sunday morning found him lying 'neath the red light at her (D) door
     With a bullet in his side he cried, "Have (C) you (C/b) seen Mabel (A) Joy?"
     (A) Stunned and shaken someone said, "Son, she don't live here (D) no more
     No she left this house four years today, (C) they say she's (C/b) looking (A) for
     Some Georgia (Bm) farm boy" (Bm/a) (G) (G/f#) (Em) (Asus4) (A) (D)

Mobile Blue

Drop D Tuning

(D) Headed south to work a pipeline
Make some cash while in the meantime
Baby jumped a bird and flew (A) away

Lordy Lordy my my mind is achin’
I'm drunk and down and out and makin’ time
With anything that comes my (D) way

Staggered to the Greyhound station
L.A. ma’am my destination
Put me on that dog take me (A) away

Mobile blue Lord I can’t make it
Got me down Lord I can’t take it
Here in Alabam' for one more (D) day

     (G) Lord I called a friend in Frisco Lord
     He said baby’s in (D) L.A.
     Here I am in Alabam’ and two thousand miles (A) away
     Lord I got them Mobile blues (D) today

(G) I left her back in Frisco Lord
She begged me not to go
I know somebody must have told her
That I travel and I (D) lie

(G) That they saw me drunk in Mobile
With some wired up chick from Jacksonville
And brother did we look like we could (A) fly

     (D) I staggered to the Greyhound station
     L.A. m’am my destination
     Put me on that dog take me (A)  away
     I got them Mobile blues (D) today

(A) I got them Mobile blues (D) today

How Many TImes (Must the Piper Be Paid for His Song

Drop D Tuning – Capo on I

(D) (Bm) (G) (D)

(A) (G) (D)

(Em) (A) (D)

(Bm) (G) (Em) (Dm)

(Dm) Morning came and found her at the (Dm/c#) window
With her nose pressed to the (Bb) glass
The (A) dew was like a broken diamond necklace
Left scattered on the (D) grass

(D) She slipped from my side
She (G) stands at the window
And (D) watches the rain
Lord I wish I was blind
And could (G) not read her mind
And (A) see all her pain

     But from (G) here where I lie I can (D) see
     The (G) tears in her eyes 

     As (A) she quietly cries

     Out (G) for him not for (D) me
     How many times must the piper (A)
     Be paid for his song (D)

Her (D) shattered dream
It's (G) like broken glass
Cutting (D) through to her soul
It's leaving her naked mind
Alone (G) now to tremble
And (A) cry in the cold

     Any (G) day now she knows that he'll (D) call
     Lord, she's (G) wonderin' if I'll be (A) around
     When he's gone and (G) she's left to (D) fall
     How many times must the (A) Piper
     Be paid for his (Dm) song

(Dm) (Dm/c) (Bb) (A)

Well the sun fell through the window
The morning was filled
With the singin' of birds
Will she ever remember
He sung the songs
But forgot all the words

     From here where I lie I can see
     The tears in her eyes
     As she quietly cries
     Then she turns and she walks
     Back to me
     How many times must the Piper
     Be paid for his song

Intro tab:

I've only transcribed the first couple of measures for now. The main thing is to keep the steady bass going.

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|--2-------2---2-|--2-------2-----|----2-------2----|
|4-----4-4-------|4-----4-4-------|--4---4---4---4-|
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|----2-------2----|----0-------0--|----0-------0---|
|--4---4---4-----|--0-------0----|--0-------0-----|
|2-------2-----0-|---------------|--------------0-|
|----------------|5-----5-5----0-|5-----5-5-------|

Frisco Depot

Capo on III

(C) Frisco's a full hour from home
If you can (D7)  afford to fly
But (G7) it might as well be the moon
When you're as (C) broke as I

Here I sit with my head in my hands
And watch the (D7) trains go by
Lord the (G7) helping hand mission man told me
The nights here get (C) cold
     
     (F) When you are cold
     There's nothing as welcome as (C) sunshine
     (G) When you're dry 
     There's nothing as welcome as (C) rain
     
     (F) When you're alone 
     There's nothing no slower than (C) passing time
     (G) When you're afoot
     There's nothing as fast as a (C) train

Well Frisco's a mighty rich town
Now that ain't no lie
Why they got some buildings
That reach a mile into the sky

Yet no one can even afford just the time
To tell me why
Here's a world filled with people
And so many people alone
     
     And when you're alone,
     You ain't got much reason for living
     But while you're alive
     Well you just have to live with your pain
     
     Unless you've been wrong for so long
     There's no one left forgiving
     And you find yourself searching your past
     For the links to the chain

Remember the Good

Capo on I

(G) Yes I suppose (G7) at times I think about her (C) (C/b) (Am)
(D7) She was once so much a part of me (G) (G/g#) (Am) (Am/g)

(G) But heaven knows I've (G7) learned to live without her (C) (C/b) (Am)
(A7) And hell it was at times, it was a (D7) painful memory

     (G) But for all that matters (G7) now, if it does (C) (C/b) (Am) (Am/g)
     (D7) For all that tried to be but never (G) was (G/g#) (Am) (D)
     (G) For all the times I've (G7) tried,
     (C) I wouldn't (C/b) change it if I (Am) could (Am/g)
     (G) For all she meant to me, (D7) I'll remember the (G) good

I'll (D7) forget the bad
All the (G) good times we've had

Won't make me (A7) quite so sad
When I'm (Bm) remembering (D7)

(G) And for all the times I've (G7) tried

I wouldn't (C) change (C/b) it if I (Am) could
For all she (G) meant to me, (D7) I'll remember the (Em) good (C)
For all she (G) meant to me, (D7) I'll remember the (Em) good (C) (G)

American Trilogy

Capo on I

(D) Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton
(G) Old things they (G/g#) are not forgotten (D)
Look away, look (Bm) away, look (Em) away (A7) Dixieland (D) (D4) (D) 
     Oh I wish I was in (G) Dixie, (E) away, away
     In Dixieland (D/f#) I (G) take my stand to (D) live and die in (A4) Dixie (A7)
Cause (D) Dixieland, (D/f#) that's where I was born (G)
Early Lord one (G/g#) frosty morning
Look (D) away, look (Bm) away, look (Em) away (A7) Dixieland (D)

Glory, glory hallelujah
(G) Glory, glory (D) hallelujah
Glory, (D/c#) glory (Bm) hallelujah (G)
His (Em) truth is (A4) marching on (Bm) (Em) (D)

(D) So hush little children
Don't you (A7) cry
You (D) know your daddy's (Bm) bound to (G) die
(D) But (Bm) all my (A4) trials, Lord (A7) will soon be (D) over

  

Intro

Drop D tuning

D

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Harp solo

High Eb harp

4 . . . . -4 5 -5

6 . . . . . . 5 .
-6 6 -6 -7 7 . . .
-7 7 -7 7 -8 8 7
6 7 . . . 5 6 . . 
-4 5 4 . . . 

The Future's Not What It Used to Be

Capo on VI

(C) (C/b) (Am) (Am/g)

(F) (F/e) (Dm) (G)

(C) I left (C/b) Decatur

(Am) Hell-bent to (Am/g) forget
Bought a (F) ticket to Skowhegan (C) Maine

(C) I wound up in in (C/b) Seattle
(Am) So drunk and so (Am/g) rattled 

(D7/f#) Lord I’d caught the wrong train (G7)

(C) Found some fast easy (C/b) women

And some (Am) hard drinking men (Am/g)
(F) Swore I’d drown of sorrow in (D/f#) me

     I (F) once had a (G) lot

     But the (C) future was (F) not

     (C) Not what (G) it used to (F) be (C) (G)

Ah the years they went by,
And I went steadily down-hill

Til I had no place left to go

Made the missions by morning

Made the dives every night
Til I made a wreck of my body and soul

And then I met a lady

And in time she made me

Forget, her love set me free

     Ah, we didn’t have a lot

     But the future was not

     Not what it used to be

          (Am) I never thought I would (Em) live to get old

          For the (Am) past cut a whole deep in (C) me
          But (Am) there was the chance (Em) to be here a while longer

          (F) At least I wanted to (G) be

Somebody told me

That she was in town

I found out today

Lord how it hurts me

To hear that she’s down

But what else can I say

I know her sorrow

I know her pain

I know her need

     I once loved her a lot

     But the future’s just not

     Not what it used to be