Tonart: B major
Verse 1
B
D#m
My name is Charlie Bran nan,
B
G#m
from Charleston I come.
E
B
G#m
I've traveled this wide world over,
B
some ups and downs I've had.
G#m
I've traveled this wide world over,
B
some ups and downs I've saw.
G#m
B
D#m
But I never really knew what misery was
B
F#
G#m
Till I hit old Arkansas
B
Got off the train in Little Rock
in the middle of winter
Nobody there to extend to me his paw
Nor bid me welcome to
G#m
F#
the state of Arkansas
I dodged behind the depot
D#m
B
G#m
to dodge that blizzard wind.
B
G#m
B
G#m
I met a walking skeleton.
B
D#m
B
He said his name was Thomas Quinn.
E
B
G#m
Well, his hair hung down in rat tails
B
D#m
B
G#m
on his lean and lantern jaw.
B
D#m
He invited me to his hotel.
B
He said it was the best in Arkansas.
G#m
F#
B
F#
B
I followed my conductor
D#m
G#m
to his respective place
E
B
where pity and starvation
G#m
B
were to be seen on every face.
Well his bread it was corn dodger
G#m
and his meat I could not chaw,
B
G#m
B
D#m
but he charged me a half a dollar
G#m
F#
in the state of Arkansas.
B
And I went out and got me a job
F#
B
on a farm, farming.
G#m
B
But I didn't care for
F#
B
E
B
the work of the farmer,
or his wife, and none of his children.
So I went up to him one day
and I said, Mister,
I'm going to quit this job
and you can just pay
G#m
B
me off right now.
He says, okay, son,
if that's the way you feel about it,
and he took me out in the barn
G#m
and he handed me a mink skin.
B
I said, I don't want this thing,
I want my money for the work I've done.
He says, son, you may not know it,
but mink skins
is what we're using
E
B
for currency down here now.
F#
B
So I took it, went into town,
G#m
hunted up a place,
C#
put my mink skin up on
B
the counter
and darned if the bartender
G#m
didn't toss me a pint.
B
Then he picked up my mink skin,
blowed the hair back on it,
put it under the counter,
G#m
fetched me out 14 rabbit skins
B
G#m
B
and three possum hides for change.
D#m
I'm going to the Indian Territory
B
G#m
and will live outside the law.
B
I'll bid farewell to the cane brakes
in the state of Arkansas.
If you ever see me back again,
I'll extend to you my paw.
D#m
But it'll be through a telescope
G#m
B
from hell to Arkansas.
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