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Beginner’sFingerpickingGuitartaught byFred Sokolow

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Chords for “STEALIN’”

EBGDAE

1st string2nd3rd4th5th6th`̀̀` `↑

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Tuning “String-to-String”

BASIC FINGERPICKING PATTERN FOR “STEALIN”

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Note: Stems Up means pick with fingers; Stems Down means pick with thumb.

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STEALIN’

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I wanna love you baby, like your easy rider done.

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ALTERNATING BASS

BASS RUNS

STEALIN’

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Put your arms around me like a circle ’round the sun,I want to love you baby, like your easy rider done.

Chorus:You don’t believe I love you, look what a fool I’ve been.You don’t believe I’m sinkin’, look at the hole I’m in.Stealin’, stealin’, pretty mama doncha tell on me.I’m stealin’ back to my same old used to be.

Woman I love she’s so far away,Woman I hate, I see her most every day. (Chorus)

Woman I love she’s about my size,She’s a married woman comes to see me sometimes. (Chorus)

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STEALIN’(WITH ALTERNATING BASS)

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STEALIN’(WITH BASS RUNS AND ALTERNATING BASS)

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WABASH CANNONBALL

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WABASH CANNONBALL

She came down from Birmingham one cold December day,As she pulled into the station, you could hear all the people say:“There’s a gal from Minnesota, she’s long and she’s tall.She’s the combination called the Wabash Cannonball.”

Chorus:Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roarAs she glides along the southland, through hills and by the shore.Hear the mighty rush of engines, hear the lonesome hoboes call,Travelin’ through the jungles on the Wabash Cannonball.

Oh, the Eastern states are dandy so the Western people say,From New York to Chicago, St. Louis by the way.From the hills of Minnesota where the rippling waters fall,No chances can be taken on the Wabash Cannonball.

Here’s to Daddy Claxton, may his name forever stand,And may he be remembered in the courts throughout our land.When his earthly race is over and the curtain ’round him falls,We’ll carry him on to victory on the Wabash Cannonball.

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NINE POUND HAMMER

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NINE POUND HAMMER

The nine pound hammer is a little too heavy, for my size, buddy for my size.

Chorus:Roll on, buddy, doncha roll so slow. How can I roll when the wheel won’t go?

This old hammer, it killed John Henry,ain’t gonna kill me, ain’t gonna kill me.

Chorus:Roll on, buddy, pull your load of coal. How can I pull when the wheel won’t go?

There ain’t no hammer in this tunnel that can ring like mine, that can ring like mine.

Rings like silver and it shines like gold. Rings like silver and it shines like gold.

I’m goin’ on the mountain for to see my baby, never comin’ back, never comin’ back.

It’s a long way to Harlan and a long way to Hazard to get a little brew, little home brew.

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WABASH CANNONBALL(WITH PINCHES)

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“CALIFORNIA BLUES” PATTERN

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CALIFORNIA BLUES

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CALIFORNIA BLUES(WITH BASS RUNS)

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I’m goin’ to California where they sleep out every night.(Repeat)

I’m leavin’ you sweet mama, ’cause you just don’t treat me right.

Chorus:I got the California Blues and I’m sure gonna leave you here.(Repeat)I might ride the blinds, I ain’t got no railroad fare.

Let me tell you something, mama, that you don’t know.(Repeat)

I’m a do-right papa, got a home everywhere I go.

Listen to me mama, sing this lonesome song.(Repeat)

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Stagolee shot Billy De Lyons, what do you think of that?Shot him down in cold blood ’cause he stole his Stetson hat.

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I took a trip on a sailing shipand when I reached Jamaica I made a stop.

Chorus:But I’m sad to say I’m on my way,Won’t be back for many a day.My heart is down, my head is turning around,I had to leave a little girl in Kingston town.

Sounds of laughter everywhereand the dancing girls sway to and fro.

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Ake rice, salt fish are nice,and the rum is fine any time of year.

JAMAICA FAREWELL

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I went down to St. James Infirmary, I saw my baby there.Stretched out on a long white table, so still, so cold, so fair.

Let her go, let her go, God bless her, wherever she may be.She may search this wide world over, never find another man like me.

When I die, please bury me in my hightop Stetson hat.Put a $20 gold piece on my watchchain so the boys’ll know I died standing pat.

And now that you’ve heard my story, I’ll take another shot of booze.If anyone should happen to ask you, I’ve got the gambler’s blues.

ST. JAMES INFIRMARY

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Go tell my baby sister not to do like I have done,But to shun that house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

I’m goin’ back to New Orleans, my race is nearly run,Goin’ back to spend the rest of my life beneath that Rising Sun.

HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

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As I walked out in the streets of Laredo,As I walked out in Laredo one day,I spied a cowpuncher all wrapped in white linen,Wrapped in white linen as cold as the clay.

I see by your outfit that you are a cowboy,These words he did say as he saw me ride by.Come sit down beside me and hear my sad story,I’m shot in the breast and I surely must die.

It was once in the saddle I used to go dashing,Once in the saddle I used to go gay.First to the dram-house and then to the card house,Got shot in the breast and I’m dying today.

Get six jolly cowboys to carry my coffin,Six pretty maidens to bear up my pall.Put bunches of roses all over my coffin,Roses to deaden the clods as they fall.

Beat the drum slowly and play the fife lowly,Play the death march as you carry me on.Take me out to the graveyard and throw the sod o’er me,For I’m a young cowboy and I know I’ve done wrong.

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See them tumbling down,pledging their love to the ground.Lonely but free I’ll be found,

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