Song For Robert Johnson (Low Country)

(transcribed by Jim McGuire)

 

 

Capo 2nd fret

 

Up on north to Detroit south down 51 to Memphis a pistol in his hand

Am………………………Em…………………D………..C………………..

There’s many a good man hiding in the shadows just waiting to give that boy 6 feet of land

Am…………………………………………..Em……………D……………………C………………

 

Little Robert Dusty he’s been stealing hearts so easily you should hear him when he sings

Am………………………………Em………………..D…………………..C………………………

Double dealing at the crossroads him and his guitar they say somethings been playing them

Am………………………………….Em…………………….D………C………………..D………….

 

Feeling….down in the fingertips bold good feeling wooh oh like you could die for it

Em………………………………………………………………………………….A…….

And the bird that whistles and the bird that sings

…………G……….C………………..G……….D….

And the strong strong heart beating and the stretched out wings

Em………………………………………………….G……………D….

 

SAME CHORDS AS 1ST VERSE

 

Passion be a memory she said looking at the sheets where he used to lie with her

Holding a picture she’s living again things she felt when he played for her

Little Robert Dusty stole her heart so easily she could hear him when he sings

Double dealing at the crossroads him and his guitar they say that somethings been playing them

 

 

Feeling down in the fingertips bold good feeling  wooh oh like you could die for it

Em………………………………………………………………………………..A……..

And the bird that whistles and the bird that sings

………….G………..C………………G…………D…

And the strong strong heart beating and the stretched out wings that he made

Em…………………………………………………..G…………..D………….Am….

Won’t so easily won’t so easily fade

AM……………..Em………D……Em…..Am

 

SAME AS 1ST VERSE

 

The talk is he still comes around hey from Mississippi when your road is dark as night

When nothing else gets to your sadness he’s picking up his guitar and he’s feeling it right

Little Robert Dusty and they stole his heart so easily

He was singing all my love in vain

Killing at the crossroads but him and his guitar they say

That somethings still playing them

 

 

Repeat chorus