{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":2322841,"song":"Spanish Johnny","artist":"David Bromberg","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11484326-spanish-johnny-chords-by-david-bromberg/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2322841?type=chord","rating":4.92728,"votes":13,"content":"In the youtube video recording by David Bromberg the low 'E' string dropped to 'C'\r\nFinger Picking style\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nThose other years, the dusty years[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen we drove the big herds through[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nI tried to forget the miles we rode[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd Spanish Johnny too[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                                              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe'd sit beside a water ditch when all his herd was in[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd he'd never harm a child but sing   to his mandolin[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nHe sang the old songs, the old ways,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand the dealins' of our game[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                             [ch]D[/ch]\r\nSpanish Johnny seldom spoke, but sang songs of Spain[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd his talk with men was vicious talk[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhen he was drunk on gin[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAh, but those were golden things he said   to his mandolin[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[GUITAR SOLO]\r\n\r\n\r\n[vERSE 4]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWe had to stand, we had to judge,[/tab]\r\n[tab]                   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWe had to stop him then[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFor the hand so gentle to a child had killed so many men[/tab]\r\n\r\n[vERSE 5]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                                                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nHe died a hard death long ago before the roads came in[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                            [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd the night before he swung he sung  to his mandolin[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nWell, we carried him out in the mornin' light[/tab]\r\n[tab]                  [ch]D[/ch]\r\na man who done no good[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we lowered him down in the cold cold clay[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]D[/ch]\r\nStuck in a cross of wood[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd a letter he wrote to his kinfolk[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]D[/ch]\r\nTo tell them where he'd been[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd we shipped it on down to Mexico,[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                     [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAlong with his  mandolin[/tab]","plain_text":"In the youtube video recording by David Bromberg the low 'E' string dropped to 'C'\nFinger Picking style\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n[GUITAR SOLO]\n\n\n[vERSE 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n[vERSE 5]","chords":["E","C","D","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}