ARTIST: Mississippi John Hurt
SONG: Make me down a pallet on your floor (1928)
No real verses or chorus or anything specific here. Play instrumental parts everytime you feel like it:
that's definitely how he would do it. Play some F6 with a pinkie hammer on the Fmaj7 for more groove.
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Make me down a pallet on your floor
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Make me down
E7 Fmaj7 C
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Fmaj7 G C C/G C
Make me a pallet on your floor
C/G Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Oh make me down
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Make me down
E7 Fmaj7 C
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Fmaj7 G C C/G C C/G
Make me a pallet on your floor
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Up the country
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Up the country by the cold sleet and snow
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
I'm going up the country by the cold sleet and slow
Fmaj7 G C C/G C C/G
No telling how much further I may go
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Make me down
E7 Fmaj7 C
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Fmaj7 G C C/G
Make me a pallet on your floor
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Well, sleeping, my back and shoulders tire
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Way I'm sleeping, my back and shoulders tire
E7 Fmaj7 C
The way I'm sleeping, my back and shoulders tire
Fmaj7 G C C/G C
Gonna turn over and try it on the side
C/G Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Oh make me down
E7 Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Fmaj7 G C C/G C C/G
Make me a pallet on your floor
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Don't you let my good girl catch you here
Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Please don't let my good girl catch you here
E7 Fmaj7 C
Oh she might shoot you might cut and starve you too
C Fmaj7 G C C/G C
No telling what she might do
C/G Fmaj7 C C/G C C/G
Oh make me down
E7 Fmaj7 C
Make me a pallet down, soft and low
Fmaj7 G C
Make me a pallet on your floor