Grupo canadiense, formado a principios de los años 60, en sus comienzos usaron el nombre de "The Hawks", ya que fueron el grupo de acompañamiento del rockero Ronnie Hawkins, conocido como "the Hawk" (El Halcón).
Sus miembros eran:
Robbie Robertson (1942) guitarrista Levon Helm (1941-2012) bateria y voz Rick Danko (1942-1999) bajo y voz Richard Manuel (1943-1986) Teclados y voz Garth Hudson (1940) multinstrumentista
Empezaron a hacerse un nombre tras la electrificación de Bob Dylan
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Atlantic City 4/4 The Band Album: Jericho. Capo 2 Transcribed by Ken Lee [email protected]
Intro: Mandolin Solo / Em Well, they / blew up the chicken man, / C - G In / Philly last night, and / Em / C They / blew up his house, / too. Em Down on the boardwalk, / C - G They're / ready for a fight, / Em Gonna / see what them, / C Racket boys can / do.
Em / Now there's / trouble bussin' in, / C - G From / outta state, and / Em / C The / D.A. can't get no re - / lief. Em / / C - G Gonna / be a rumble on the / promen - ade, and / Em The / gamblin' commissioner's hangin' on, / D By the / skin of his teeth.
Chorus:
Em Everything dies, baby, C - G That's a / fact, / Em / But / maybe everything that / dies, / C - G Some / day comes back. Em / G Put your / makeup on, / C - G Fix your / hair up pretty, and Em / C - G Meet me to - night in At - / lantic City.
/ Em Well, I / got a job, and / C - G I put my / money a - way, / Em But I / got the kind of debt / C - G That no honest / man can pay. / Em So I / drew out what I had / C - G From the / Central Trust, and / Em I / bought us two tickets / D On that / Coast City bus.
Chorus:
/ Em Now our / luck may have died, and / C - G Our / love might be cold, / Em / C But with / you for - ever I'll / stay. / Em We'll be / goin' out, / C - G Where the / sands turn to gold, / Em But put your / stockin's on, / D 'Cause it / might get cold.
Chorus:
/ Em Now I've been a - / lookin' for a / job, / C - G But it's / hard to find, / Em There's / winners and there's losers, and / C - G I am / South of the line. / Em Well, I'm / tired of gettin' caught out / C - G On the / losin' end, / Em But I / talked to a man last night, / D Gonna do a little / favor for him.
Chorus:
/ Em - G / CG Oh, / meet me tonight in At - / lantic City, / Em - G / CG Oh, / meet me to - night in At - / lantic City. / Em - G / CG Oh, / meet me to - night in At - / lantic City.
actual chords are:(F#m=(Em), A=(G), D=(C), E=(D), E7=(D7), Bm=(Am))