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Tabbed by: Mike Nachaj :: mike@mikemusicbox.com

Song: Big East West
By:   Blackie and the Rodeo Kings with Patty Loveless

[intro:]  | D | D | G | G | A | A | D | A |
          | D | D | G | G | A | A | D | A |

[verse: 1]
                         D 
Line of crosses in the path
                     G
The wire highway of the telegraph
               A
On a sea of dreary snow
                   D         A
Like a picture of long ago
                         D
And I was riding on the wheel
               G
I was thinking on the past
               A
Looking out across the fields
                     D              D7  {bass walks down}
Watching people turn to photographs

[chorus:]
                  G           
And every sailor knows the truth
                          D
About the anchor and the chain
                   G
Got to hold them close to you
E7                             A
  If you don't want to drift away again
D                        G
  Every gyspy knows the way
                         Bm
Like the buttons on his vest
        D             | A        | A 
And the sun lies down before you 
           |D           |G |D |A    
Out on the big east west

[verse: 2]
                 D 
In the silo up ahead 
                   G
The golden promise of the sun
                   A
Grinded into your daily bread
                  D                A 
Bring it home to your loved ones

               D
Once in every now and then
               G
When you get back from the wars
                     A
You turn around and you're gone again
               D         D7
To that wide open shore

[chorus:]
                  G           
And every sailor knows the truth
                          D
About the anchor and the chain
                   G
Got to hold them close to you
E7                             A
  If you don't want to drift away again
D                        G
  Every gyspy knows the way
                         Bm
Like the buttons on his vest
        D             |A        |A 
And the sun lies down before you 
           |D           |G |D |A    
Out on the big east west
           |D           |G |D |A  

[coda:]
                  G           
And every sailor knows the truth
                          D
About the anchor and the chain
            G
Hold them close to you
E7                             A
  If you don't want to drift away again
D                        G
  Every gyspy knows the way
                         Bm
Like the buttons on his vest
         D            | A | A | A | A  {let ring} |
And the sun lies down before you 
          | D          |G |D |A | 
Out on the big east west
          | D          |D |D |D {finish} 
    On the big east west



Chords:

A       002220
Bm      224432
D       000232
E7      020100
G       320003