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Janie Chord Req: Outside the Nashville City Limits (Baez (8) RE: Chord Req: Outside the Nashville City Limits (Baez 03 Sep 14


Don't know if the chords are right or not, but found this. Hope it is helpful. (Lovely song, btw.)

http://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/j/joan_baez/outside_the_nashville_city_limits_ver2_crd.htm

Outside The Nashville City Limits   by   Joan Baez

CAPO 5th fret - The Original Key is F


   C                                 Am
Outside the Nashville city limits, a friend and I did drive,
C                               Am
On a day in early winter, I was glad to be alive
   F                G                   Am          F
We went to see some friends of his, who lived upon a farm
F                  G                Am            F
Strange and gentle country folk, who wished nobody harm
F               G      F                G
Fresh-cut sixty acres, eight cows in the barn
       Am             Em             F             Em
But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December
            F                  G          C
Was that my eyes they did brim over, as we talked


       C                               Am
In the slowest drawl I ever heard, the man said "Come with me
    C                                    Am
If y'all wanna see the prettiest place in all of Tennessee."
   F                G                   Am             F
He poured us each a glass of wine and a-walking we did go,
F                      G                      Am             F
Along fallen leaves and crackling ice, where a tiny brook did flow
F             G                     F                G
He knew every inch of the land, and Lord he loved it so
       Am             Em             F             Em
But the thing that I remember, on that cold day in December
            F                  G          C
Was that my eyes were brimming over, as we walked


   C                           Am
He sat my down upon a stone, beside a running spring
   C                                             Am
He talked in a voice so soft and clear, like the waters I heard sing
F                   G                   Am               F
He said "We searched quite a time for a place to call our own.
F                     G             Am                F
There was just me and Mary John and now I guess we're home."
F                        G                  F                   G
I looked at the ground and wondered, how many years they each had roamed
    Am          Em             F             Em
And Lord I do remember, on that day in late December
       F                  G          C
How my eyes kept brimming over, as we talked


          #Key Change: +2 Semi-Tones#

      D
As we walked
    D                                        Bm
And standing there with outstretched arms, he said to me "You know,
D                                  Bm
I can't wait till the heavy storms cover the ground with snow,
    G                     A             Bm                  G
And there on the pond the watercress is all that don't turn white.
         G               A                   Bm                   G
When the sun is high you squint your eyes and look at the hills so bright."
    G                A                   G             A
And nodding his head my friend said, "It seems like overnight,
         Bm                Gbm          G             Gbm
That the leaves come out so tender at the turning of the winter..."
             G                     A          D
I thought the skies they would brim over, as we talked


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