#--------------------------------------------------------------# BIG COUNTRY BLUES Townes Van Zandt Copyright © 1967 & 2003 Silver Dollar Music Performing rights w/ASCAP http://www.ascap.com/ace/ACE.html #-------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------# #This file is an interpretation of Townes' work, and does not # #necessarily represent the actual way he recorded or performed # #the song, and is not intended to be used for any purpose other# #than for private study, scholarship, or research # #--------------------------------------------------------------# Em Am Em Am Em I been up the Mississippi to the Manitoba line Am Em I've been downstream to the Gulf of Mexico Am Followed the sun out west to Californ' B7 Em And there just ain't no place left for me to go Spent a lonesome month in Maine, and a year in Louisian Packed my bags and hit the Western Trail Rambled down through Texas 'til I came to El Paso Spent a week in a stinkin' Juarez jail I rambled through Nevada, gamblin' most my life away I headed north when I heard Dakota call I stayed until the Northerns came rollin' down the line Headed south when summer turned to fall I been north and east and south where the cotton grows Out in the west where the sun forever shines I've bent my back for a dollar a day in a Texas sugar field Labored in a Minnesota mine I've seen your hungry babies scream, I watched their mamas cry Seen a worn out prostitute beg for a dime I've seen men come out of gutters, ready to give their lives away For a slug at a lousy bottle of rot gut wine I been up the Mississippi to the Manitoba line Downstream to the Gulf of Mexico Followed the sun out west to Californ There just ain't no place left for me to go #--------------------------------------------------------------#