Rapid City, South Dakota

By: Kinky Friedman

Tabbed by Chickenpicker1

5 September 2005


Intro:  E

1st Verse


E                    A
Just a ragged kid in overalls
   B                  E
He thumbed a ride one day
            A             F#m            B
He told me "anywhere your going is on my way"
          E                  A
But as we passed by big Al’s Drive In
    B             E
His eyes began to flash
       A             F#m         B
He was leavin’ Rapid City mighty fast


Chorus


           A
He said "I hope to god
                      E
She finds the goodbye letter that I wrote her
        B                                A              E
For the mail don’t move so fast in Rapid City, South Dakota"


2nd Verse


E                       A          B             E
Well he left her just a blanket of snow upon the farm
    A                    F#m             B
And that don’t keep your conscience very warm
            E                     A
He said his friends were too durn country
        B               E
And his Pa was too damn mean
          A                F#m         B
And there weren’t no money pumpin' gasoline


Chorus

        A
And her gentle eyes
                   E
The merchandise of dreams the peddler sold her
B                             A              E
Left her there alone in Rapid City, South Dakota.


Solo:  Over Chorus


E                     A
Now the reason he was going
  B                  E
I ain’t sure I could say
         A            F#m         B
Might've been the rodeo in Santa Fe
           E            A
"There’s a doctor in Chicago
  B                E
I know she’ll be alright"
   A                  F#m             B
He told himself as he stared into the night


Chorus


               A
And he said "I hope to god
                      E
She finds the goodbye letter that I wrote her
        B                                A              E
For the mail don’t move so fast in Rapid City, South Dakota.
    A
And all her people treatin' her
     E
Just like they never knowed her 
         B                              A    G#m F#m
Lord the winter’s passin’ slow in Rapid City, 
         E
South Dakota"