{"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":326306,"song":"Woodrow","artist":"Tom Russell","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11553311-woodrow-chords-by-tom-russell/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/326306?type=chord","rating":4.169,"votes":4,"content":"Woodrow\r\nTom Russell\r\nCapo 5\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]G[/ch]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWhen people twist your words, Woodrow, ah, they'll twist at every whim[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nIt's thugs that run the unions now and use your songs like hymns[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nOnce, your music danced on women's thighs and the arch of a hobo's[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nbrow-ow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAw, Mrs. Guthrie look what they done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nOh, the trains leave every morning, some go east and some go west[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the clacking of the iron is the sound you love the best[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nIt's the great escape from railroad bulls and the Coney Island girls[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what we done to your brown eyed boy with curls[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSing the truth, scream it loud[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what they done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAll those boxcars full of Chinese junk, the caboose has been junk piled[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd we're all buying groceries now from men with crooked smiles[/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                              [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou were a drunken, wild misogyneer and your politics were crude[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]     [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAs you sat home writing nursery rhymes and drawing women nude[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                     [ch]G[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd all those politicians breaths stink bad, be they left or be they[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nright[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]       [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nAnd the ones who play with rhetoric are not the ones to fight[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                                   [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nDon't go coming 'round here, Woodrow, they'll stretch you from a rope[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]G[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]D[/ch]         [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd your corpse won't ever find a bar where a man can drink and smoke[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSing the truth, sing it loud[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what we done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Instrumental] (Chorus)\r\n\r\n[Verse]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nDid you hear the screen door slam, Ma, Woodrow's gone again[/tab]\r\n[tab]     [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nHe's writin' obscene letters now, the Feds might bring him in[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                            [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nBut every song he ever wrote is hangin' on the breeze[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]D[/ch]        [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWith the laundry in the Guthrie yard full of Huntington's disease[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                           [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo, Woodrow, rest in peace, old pal, there ain't nothin' for you here[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nWe're in the scrub oak country now, the land of dread an' fear[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                                 [ch]G[/ch]                [ch]Em[/ch]  [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd whitey's in the wood pile and the writing's on the wall[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]D[/ch]      [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut your ring of truth still echoes down the Greystone clinic hall[/tab]\r\n\r\n[Chorus]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSing the truth, scream it loud[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAw, Mrs. Guthrie, look what they done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]   [ch]C[/ch]                                [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]         [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nSo here's to all outsiders, all the ones who could not fit[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]C[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]          [ch]Em[/ch]\r\nThe troubadour, the prisoners, the drunken Indian[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                                      [ch]G[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAh, the circus freaks, the wounded lovers will make it through somehow[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]                      [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAh, Mrs. Guthrie, we are ridin' blind with your brown eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSing the truth scream it loud[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                  [ch]G[/ch]                    [ch]C[/ch]          [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAh, Mrs. Guthrie, look what we done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]Em[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSing the truth, scream it loud[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]G[/ch]                   [ch]C[/ch]           [ch]D[/ch]    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAh, Mrs. Guthrie, look what we done to your brown-eyed baby now[/tab]","plain_text":"Woodrow\nTom Russell\nCapo 5\n\n[Intro]\nG\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]\n\n\n\n[Instrumental] (Chorus)\n\n[Verse]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Chorus]","chords":["G","C","Em","D"],"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]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}