{"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":2507646,"song":"The Stable Lad","artist":"Gordon Bok","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11509888-the-stable-lad-chords-by-gordon-bok/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/2507646?type=chord","rating":0,"votes":0,"content":"[Intro]\r\n[ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nWhen Cobb & Co. ran coaches from the Buller to the Grey[/tab]\r\n[tab]  [ch]D[/ch]                                                  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI went for a livery-stable lad in a halt up Westport way[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I gave my heart to a red-haired girl, and I left it where she lay[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBy the winding Westland highway from the Buller to the Grey[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                                                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI've got Neatsfoot on me fingers, and lamp-black on me face[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]D[/ch]                                                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI've saddle-soaped the harness and hung each piece in place[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Am[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nBut my heart's not in the stable, it's in Charleston far away[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nWhere Cobb & Co. goes rolling by from the Buller to the Grey[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere's a red-haired girl in Charleston, she's dancing in the bar[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]D[/ch]                                                      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I know she's not like other girls who dance where miners are[/tab]\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Am[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd I can't forget her eyes and everything they seemed to say[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nThe day I rode with Cobb & Co. from the Buller to the Grey[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]                                                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere's a schooner down from Murchison, I can hear her in the gorge[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll have to work the bellows now and redden up the forge[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nI'm going to strike that iron so hard, she'll hear it far away[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIn the roaring European where the road runs by from Grey[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                                           [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSome day I'll be teamster with the ribbons in me fist[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]D[/ch]                                                       [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd I'll drive that Cobb & Co. Express through rain and snow and mist[/tab]\r\n[tab]                        [ch]Am[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nDrive a four-in-hand to Charleston, and no matter what they say[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]D[/ch]            [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI'll take me girl up on the box and marry her in Grey[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental]\r\n[ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]   [ch]Am[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]                                                                  [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere's a graveyard down in Charleston where moss trails from the trees[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]D[/ch]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the Westland wind comes moaning in from off the Tassman Seas[/tab]\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Am[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd it's there they laid my red-haired girl, in a pit of yellow clay[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]C[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]D[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs Cobb & Co. went rolling by from the Buller to the Grey[/tab]","plain_text":"[Intro]\nAm   D   G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD   G   Am   D   G\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Instrumental]\nD   G   Am   D   G\n\n[Verse]","chords":["Am","D","G","C"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"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]}}}