Boy From Tupelo - Live
by Emmylou Harris
Tabbed by Aitch27
This has been a popular song in Emmylou Harris' repetoire over the last 15 years and her
live performances seemingly favour playing the song a semitone higher, and thus in a
different key, than the originally recorded version (see my tab of the original version).
Whilst playing in this higher key of C# (or of course D flat) she has played this in two
positions by use of the options the guitar presents with the Capo.
Version 1 is how she played the song on the 'live' iTunes Album 'Hickory Wind' whilst
Version 2 appears to have become her preferred way of now playing this song in concerts,
which does gives a richer and brighter sound particularly on the Gibson SJ-500 she favours.
Standard Tuning (EADGBE)
Chords:
Version 1 Version 2
Capo I Capo IV
C (C#) - x32010 A (C#) - 033300
F (F#) - 133211 D (F#) - xx0232
G (G#) - 320001 E (G#) - 022100
C x 12
C# F#
You don't love me, this I know
C#
Don't need a bible to tell me so
F#
I hung around a little too long
C#
I was good but now I'm gone
F#
Like the buffalo
C#
That boy from Tupelo
G#
Any way the wind can blow
C#
That's where I'm gonna go
F#
I'll be gone like a five and dime
C#
It'll be the perfect crime
G#
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
C#
He's the king and he ought to know
C# F# C# G# C#
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm
F#
The shoulder I've been leaning on
C#
Is the coldest place I've ever known
F#
There's nothing left for me round here
C#
Looks like it's time to disappear
F#
Like the buffalo
C#
That boy from Tupelo
G#
That old wall down in Jericho
C#
Maybelle on the radio
F#
I'll be gone like the five and dime
C#
It'll be the perfect crime
G#
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
C#
He's the king and he ought to know
C# F# C# G# C#
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm
F#
You don't love me, this I know
C#
Don't need a bible to tell me so
F#
It's a shame and a sin
C#
Everything I could have been to you
F#
Your last chance Texaco
C#
Your sweetheart of the rodeo
G#
A Juliet to your Romeo
C#
The border you cross into Mexico
F#
I'll never understand why or how
C#
Oh baby, its too late now
G#
Just ask the boy from Tupelo
C#
He's the king and he ought to know
C# F# C# G# C#
Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm, Ummmm