Steve Earle

Copperhead Road - chords

Last updated: 5 June 1996

Songs:

Devil's Right Hand, The   (Steve Earle)
Johnny Come Lately   (Steve Earle)

Devil's Right Hand
(Steve Earle)

I believe it's in E, so capo it way the hell up there at the ninth fret. The real version's a little more complex than this. This is just how I play it.

Gsus4   G       G2(?)   Asus4   A       A2(?)
--oo--  --ooo-  --o-o-  -o---o  -o---o  -o--o-
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|2||||  |2||||  |2|1||  ||11||  ||111|  ||12||
3||||4  3||||4  3||||4  ||||2|  ||||||  ||||||


INTRO

Gsus4  G  G2  G  Gsus4  G  G2  G

 Gsus4                    G       G2            G
About the time that Daddy left to fight the big war
  Gsus4           G          D
I saw my first pistol in the general store
       D                   D
In the general store, when I was thirteen
D                                 G
Thought it was the finest thing I ever had seen
     Gsus4                 G           G2          G
So l asked if I could have one someday when I grew up
Gsus4                G         D
Mama dropped a dozen eggs, she really blew up
    D                    D
She really blew up and I didn't understand
D                           G
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

C                           G
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
D                           G
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand


Gsus4  G  G2  G  Gsus4  G  G2  G


   Gsus4             G     G2           G
My very first pistol was a cap and ball Colt
Gsus4                      G       D
Shoot as fast as lightnin' but she loads a mite slow
D                       D
Loads a mite slow and I soon found out
       D                           G
It can get you into trouble but it can't get you out
   Gsus4                    G      G2    G
So then I went and bought myself a Colt 45
Gsus4               G     D
Called a peacemaker but I never knew why
D                 D
Never knew why, I didn't understand
      D                           G
Cause Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

C                           G
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
D                           G
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand
C                           G
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
D                           G
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand


Gsus4  G  G2  G  Gsus4  G  G2  G  A...

       Asus4                A    A2      A
Well I got into a card game in a company town
Asus4               A      E
Caught a miner cheatin', I shot the dog down
E                  E
Shot the dog down, watched the man fall
E                                A
Never touched his holster, never had a chance to draw
Asus4                        A        A2             A
The trial was in the morning and they drug me out of bed
Asus4                   A   E
Asked me how I pleaded, not guilty I said
    E                     E
Not guilty I said, you've got the wrong man
E                                   A
Nothing touched the trigger but the devil's right hand

D                           A
The devil's right hand, the devil's right hand
E                           A
Mama said the pistol is the devil's right hand

etc...

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    carl0297@gold.tc.umn.edu   (David J. Carlyon)   http://www.surria.com/Stetson/

Johnny Come Lately

(G)I'm an American Boys, Come a Long (C) way
I was(G) born and Bred in the (D) U.S.A.
(Em)Listen up close I Got (C) Something to (G)
(G) Boys I'm buyin' this (D) Round

Well it (G)Took a LittleWhile but were in this (C) Fight
(G)Ain't goin home till were done (D) what's right
I'm gonna (Em) drink Camden Town (C) Dry (G) Tonight
If I have to Spend my (D) last (G) pound

When i (G) first got to London it was Pooring Down (C) Rain
(G) met a little Girl in a Field (D) Canteen
(Em) Painted her name on the (C) nose of My (G)Plane
six more missions and I'm (D) gone

Well I asked (G) If I could stay and she Said that I (C) might
Then the (G) Warden came around and (D) shut out the Light
(Em) Death Rained out of the (C) London (G) Night
We made (D) Love til (G) Dawn

(Chorus)
Well when (C) Johnny Come Lately, comes (G) Marching Home
Chestfull of Medals and a G.I. (D) Loan
(Em) They'll be Waitin at the station down at (C) San Antone(G)
When Johnny comes (D)Marching (G) Home  

My (G) p-47 is a (C) pretty Good (G)ship
Took a (G) round  coming cross the Channel (D)last Trip
(Em) Just Thinkin' bout my Baby and (C) lettin' her (G) Rip
Always got me through so (D) far

Well they(G) can send me all over this Great big (C) World
never found (G) nuthin' like my North end (D) Girl
(Em) Takin' her home with me (C) one Day (G) sir
Soon as we (D) win this (G) War

Chorus

Now my (G) Grandaddy sang this (C) Song
Told me bout(G) London when the Blitz was (D) on
(Em) How he Married Grandma and (C) brought her back (G)Home
Hero Throughout this (D) Land

Now I'm (G) Standing on a Runway in San (C) Diego
Couple (G) purple Hearts and I move a little (D) slow
There's (Em) nobody here ain't (C) nobody (G) knows
bout a place (D) called (G) Vietnam

Chorus
Chorus

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