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Guy Clark - New Cut Road (Chord)
Album: The South Coast Of Texas (1981)
Submitter: lmofle (1026) on 5/22/16
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New Cut Road
By Guy Clark
Written by Guy Clark
Album: The South Coast Of Texas (1981)
Tabbed by Larry Mofle
5/22/2016


A
Coleman Bonner was a fiddle playin’ fool
     E
He's a backwoods rounder and a breaker of mules
E
Coleman Bonner’s got a wore out bow
          A          D             A
He’s been playin two days down the new cut road

Now Coleman’s little sister said you better act right, Coleman
Daddy;s gone to Louisville, he’ll be back tonight
He’s gonna get another wagon and a good pair of mules
Who a and we gonna move to Texas we just waitin’ on you

Now Coleman’s daddy, he pulled up in the yard
He said pack up your lives, kids, it’s gettin’ to hard
Kentucky’s alright but there’s too many people
Whoa, just the other day I thought I saw a church steeple

Now Coleman said daddy don’t you worry ‘bout me
Cause I’m gonna stay here in Kentucky till the day I d
I’m gonna drink that sourmash, I'm gonna race that mare
Whoa I got me a woman with the foxy red hair

Y’all been movin’ west since the day you got married
Well I’m gettin’ off the wagon daddy, I’m too old to be carried
I’m gonna stay here in Kentucky where the bluegrass grows
And I’m gonna play it all night down the new cut road


Fiddle break


Now Coleman’s daddy said now what’s it all comin’ to
Young people these days are just as stubborn as mules
You can’t make him go, he’s too old for that
It’s that damned old fiddle and that bowler hat

Now Coleman’s mama said let the boy stay cause
Cause he’s raised up right and he can find his own way
But as for me honey, I’m with you
I always thought Kentucky was just passin’ through

Now Coleman’s little sister started in a crying
And his daddy shook his head for the very last time
Coleman’s mama said somebody gotta do it
There wouldn’t be no Kentucky unless you didn’t stick to it Coleman

Coleman Bonner stood on the porch of that cabin
And he watched em all go to Texas in a covered wagon
And he pulled out his fiddle and rosined up his bow
And played a little tune called the New Cut Road
 
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