Slavin Away Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Slavin’ Amaway, all for yoCu my love,

and I’veF nothing to show for it

‘cept my dusty oldAm book full of pictures.

Dusty olAmd book, tell me a Cstory

‘bout how IF wasn’t so tired

from all my slavin’Am away.

Then play this chord progression a few times

(listen to the song and it will make sense):

A F♯ D E A F E A

AmI ran off,

put oCn corduroy knickers that I got from the coal shoveling kid

Fand hitch-hiked in a rickety old Ford,

Amhitch-hiked in a rattley old Norton side-car

Am“down strange roads, in the Cpurring rain”, as the poet put it,

Fon up to St. Paul

Amon a cold day in the middle of the fall.

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And they picked me up

for not wearing a dress

and suspended my sentence

if I wore something with a strap that was pink

and I scrubbed up good on somebody’s sink.

So now I’ll catch the Canadian Pacific and not be too specific,

to somewhere up north,

and get into lumber and slumber when I like

and in the spring ride down into Cheyenne on my bike.

A

F♯

D

E

A

F

E

A

Then play the same "Slavin Away" chord progression (Am, C, F, Am) for the

spoken word, and up until the happy part and you play this:

Instrumental

happy part):

A

F♯

D

E

A

F

E

A

Crazy dramatic part:

Am

C

F

Am

IA could see her, lF♯ooking in the mirror at me

wDondering if it wasn’t plEain for everyoneA t’see–

nFothing ever seemed to tuErn out how it miAght be.