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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---2----0-----0-----|
B|3| --------|----0------1-----3---1----2-----0------|
G|3| --------|----0------0-----2---2----2-----0-------|
D|3| --------|----0------2-----0---0----2-----2--------|
A|3| --------|----2------3-----x---x----0-----2---------|
E|3| --------|----3------x-----x---x----x-----0----------|


Intro       C   D   G    Em     C   D    G



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

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

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

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


   C   D   G   Em    C    D     G


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

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

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

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

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




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| ~   vibrato
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| x   Mute note
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