Ft. Worth Blues

Steve Earle

Chord Guide
3 4
G: 3x0003 / 32 1
C/G: 3x2013 / T 213
D7/F#: 2x0212 / 3 214
Gsus2sus4: 3x0213
Picking Guide:
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2 ------X------
1 ------X------X--
T -----X------X----
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T -X------X------
1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +

Capo 5

Intro: / G - - - / x4

G C/G G (2)

In Fort Worth all the neon's burnin' bright

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Pretty lights are red and blue

G C/G G (2)

But they shut down all the honkytonks tonight

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Say a prayer or two if they only knew

G C/G G (2)

You used to say the highway was your home

D7/F# (2) G (2)

But we both know that ain't true

G C/G G (2)

It's just the only place a man can go

D7/F# (2) G (2)

When he don't know where he's travelin to

Chorus 1:

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

But Colorado's always clean and healing

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

Tennessee in Spring is green and cool

G C/G G (2)

It never really was your kind of town

D7/F# (2) G (2)

But you went around with the Forth Worth Blues

G C/G G (2)

Somewhere up beyond the great divide

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Where the sky is wide and the clouds are few

G C/G G (2)

A man can see his way clear to the light

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Just hold on tight that's all you gotta do

Chorus 2:

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

And they say Texas weather's always changin'

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

And one thing change'll bring is somethin' new

G C/G G (2)

And Houston really ain't too bad a town

D7/F# (2) G (2)

So you hang around with the Ft. Worth Blues

Instrumental Verse and 1st line of Chorus

G C/G G (2)

There's a full moon over Galway Bay tonight

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Silver light over green and blue

G C/G G (2)

And every place I travel through I find

D7/F# (2) G (2)

Some kind of a sign that you've been through

Chorus 3:

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

But Amsterdam was always good for grieving

C/G D7/F# Gsus2sus4 G

And London never fails to leave me blue

G C/G G (2)

Paris never was my kind of town

D7/F# (2) G (hold)

So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues

Dedicated to the singer/songwriter Townes Van Zandt, who died on January 1, 1997. Earle wrote "Fort Worth Blues" a few months later in Galway, during a tour of Europe.