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I don't play this one much often. Not exactly my favourite.

But the video of young Steve with Guy Clark and Rodney Crowell (if I remember it well) is cool.

I have chords from Countrytabs. There's no capo, just G D G G D G for verse and C G D G C G D G for chorus. And I think it works. But I have no guitar with me here either.
 

Hi all

I have just pulled that one out of the closet again and it is capo on the 2nd fret despite what country tabs says!  Explaining how to pick it though is tough as its all around the G shape and getting the rhythm of the picking right for the main riff.  It basicaly stays betwen G and D (picking the tune with forefinger and middle finger) and then goes to C, G D etc for the chorus (I'm takling chord shapes as using the capo) 

If I get time later in the week, i will try and video what i know slowed down. 

Cheers

Rich
 

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"I'm not late, if I wouldn't have shown up at all, this would be considered early!"

Right you are Unrepentant. My boys and I just played it Tuesday so it's still fresh in my mind. It's definitely capoed, and as long as you stick with G, D and C you'll figure it out.

You have to watch out for Internet tab - it's wrong as often as it's right.

We're learning I Still Carry You Around next week.  

 

 

 

Hey, so do any of you guys know a good website where I can buy a cheap capo? I need one.

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Have mercy on me,
Have mercy on me,
I'm a sinner Lord can't you see,
Have mercy on me.

Capo's are cheap anyway aren't they?!

Just go on eBay and look for a 'trigger capo'. That way you can do Steve's trick of using the capo on the 2nd fret but keeping the low E string un-capo'd (thats not a word!) so playing in the D shape with the open E sounds awesome.   

I believe in Satellite Radio, he uses 2 Capo's! 

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"I'm not late, if I wouldn't have shown up at all, this would be considered early!"

Ok thank you! I guess I'll have to get me a couple of them! =)

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Have mercy on me,
Have mercy on me,
I'm a sinner Lord can't you see,
Have mercy on me.

I'm a little short of $37 but I do have a Jap. guitar, a beautiful Alvarez Yairi that is in the shop. 3rd and 4th fret wires needed replacing due to 20 yrs. of playing  Guitar Town, Someday, My Old Friend the Blues, Nowhere Rd., The Rain Came Down, Copperhead Rd., The Other Kind, Close Your Eyes, Hometown Blues, Mercenary Song, Tom Ames Prayer, Tecumseh Valley, Continental Trailways Blues, Devil's Right Hand, I Feel Alright, Graveyard Shift, Harlan Man, Carrie Brown, Creepy Jackalope Eye, Two Girls, Jerusalem, The Revolution, Home to Houston, The Seeker

 

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Does anyone have the tab for the intros of Tom Ames Prayer or the Mercenary Song? I'd love to get that down.

I know countrytavbs.com has The Mercenary Song, I'm not sure about Tom Ames Prayer though. If you don't have an account there, or don't want to make one, I can post the ones for Mercenary Song. Just let me know.

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Have mercy on me,
Have mercy on me,
I'm a sinner Lord can't you see,
Have mercy on me.

Thanks. I forgot I was even a member of that site. It said that my last log in was 2006! It had The Mercenary Son g as you said but unfortunately no tab for Tom Ames prayer. My search goes on.

A few years back I started playing guitar...I'm too old to play in a band, and I've done it for 15 years as a drummer...Anyhow...I think the first tune of Steve's I learned was 'My Old Friend The Blues'..I sit around everyday and play...lately it's been 'hardcore troubador'. 'Goodbye' is a great one to play on the porch watching traffic go by. Over the last few years I've touched on a bunch of 'em i guess. I love 'Trancendental Blues'...His stuff is fairly simple I suppose, but I've long since resigned to the fact that I like great songs that hit me one way or another..and just about everything he's ever written fits that bill. Steve writes about life, and that's what i like to hear...I got up yesterday and played 'City of Immigrants', don't know why, it was just on my brain...Seems like I always wake up with some song in my head, and a lot of mornings i'm singing one of Steve's...'I can Wait' is a favorite of mine to play...I've printed off a ton of chords, I just flip thru 'em and pick one, and strum away.

I regularly  (almost every day) play "Christmas in Washington," "My Old Friend the Blues," and "Over Yonder."

Have been playing "Goodbye" a lot lately, trying to get it down somewhat, have played "Guitartown" and "Someday" with friends, who I get to jam with maybe once a year on a fishing trip.  "Rich Man's War" is on the to-do list, maybe "Ellis Unit One."

I have been recently inspired by SE versions on Youtube of "Ft. Worth Blues" - with tears from Nancy Griffith streaming down, wow, (was that the Townes Van Zandt tribute?) and a cover of a Gram Parsons song "Sin City" - but Ft. Worth Blues is so personal I don't know about that.  Love his version, though, what a song.  Seems like I keep finding great SE material, though Youtube is terrible -  highly addictive.

http://steveearle.webs.com/

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sandra palmer

I do Ft. Worth Blues and Goodbye. I do Tecumseh Valley although that's not Steve's. I do love his version of it. I think my version is a mix of Steve and Townes', probably closer to Steve's. I have plans to do The Devil's Right Hand and Tom Ames Prayer and definitely more after that. I have Goodbye recorded here:

http://www.vsplanet.com/mp3s/d/dannytheirishswedeGoodbye.mp3