Twisted Laurel

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                            "Twisted
 Laurel" - Performed by Robert Earl 
Keen
                        From the 
Album The Happy Prisoner: The 
Bluegrass Sessions
                           Written 
by The Red Clay Ramblers' Tommy 
Thompson
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Tabbed by: JamesS

Tuning: Standard EADGBE   Capo 3rd 
Fret   Key of A#

Chords used below indicate form only
 and not actual notes played
Lyrics taken from D K's version may 
differ slightly from original 
version


  Capo             G      C     D   D7   A    Em
E|3| --------|----3------0-----2--
B|3| --------|----0------1-----3--
G|3| --------|----0------0-----2--
D|3| --------|----0------2-----0--
A|3| --------|----2------3-----x--
E|3| --------|----3------x-----x--

E|-2----0-----0-----|      
B|-1----2-----0------|     
G|-2----2-----0-------|    
D|-0----2-----2--------|   
A|-x----0-----2---------|  
E|-x----x-----0----------| 


Intro       C   D   G    Em     

C   D    G



       C                D         
Just  Across  the Blue Ridge   
        G                Em
Where the High   Meadows    Lay
       C                 D        
And the Galax   Spreads Through   
             G
The New Mown Hay

           C            D     
There's a Rusty   Iron Bridge   
           G          Em
'Cross a Shady   Ravine
          A                     
Where the Hard Road   Ends  and  
           D
Turns  to Clay

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        C                        
With  a Suitcase   in His Hand    
       G              Em
The  Lonesome  Boy  Stands
A                             D  
Gazin' at   the River Slidin' by 
               D7
 Beneath his  Feet

         C           D      
But  the Dark Water Springs   
              G                 Em
through the Black  Rocks  and Flows
        C                    D    
Outta' sight       Where the 
             G
Twisted  Laurel  Grows


   C   D   G   Em    C    D     G


          C            D          
Past the Coal-tipple  Towns    in 
     G                Em
the Cold   December  Rain
     C                    D   
Into Charleston Runs  the New   
         G
River Train

           C              D       
Where the Hillsides  are Brown,   
         G                Em
and the Broad   Valleys  Stained
     A                             
By a Hundred Thousand Lives  of 
      D
Work and Pain

      C                       G   
In a Tar-paper Shack   out of Town
              Em
   Across the Track
          A                        
Stands an Old   Used-up Man  Trying
    D                  D7
 to Call   Something   Back

        C               D         
But his Old   Memories Stained 
       G               Em
Like the City   in  the   Haze
    C                   D         
And his Days have Run  Together   
         G
Like the Rain

        C           D       
And the Dark  Water Springs   
              G                  Em
Through the Black  Rocks   and Flows
        C                D     
Out of Sight  Where the Twisted  
          G
Laurel  Grows




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