Biography:
Adam Carroll was born and raised in Texas, a state that has produced more than a few singer/songwriters with an uncanny ability to read the souls and touch the hearts of their listeners. With Far Away Blues, his debut album for Blue Corn Music, Adam Carroll joins the short list of down- home storytellers able to take the everyday events of ordinary lives and turn them into deeply moving, and often quite humorous, songs. Far Away Blues is more introspective
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Other songs:
- Amandas Song
- Bernadine
- Black Flag Blues
- Blondie And Dagwood
- Bubble Gum Or Bad Karma
- Caine River Blues
- Errols Song
- Gulf Coast Losers
- Highway Prayer
- Home Again
- Hunters Song
- Karaoke Cowboy
- Lacy
- Mr Snowcone Man
- Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
- Ol Milwaukees Best
- Pokin Around In The Ashes
- Race Car Joe
- Red Bandana Blues
- Rice Birds
- Rosemarys Song
- Silver Lakeside
- Smoky Mountain Taxi
- South Of Town
- The Dirty South
- The Girl With The Dirty Hair
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Adam Carroll
Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
6/8 time, Key of A, Adam does this in open E with a Capo 7, but, if you're like me,
you don't want to have to waste any time tuning an additional guitar, so this works quite nicely.
[Intro]
A A/B A
D A A E
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / low and high
A A/B A
Rock and rollin' / hayseed hustler
D A E A
With his honky tonk wings and his old snake eyes
[Verse 1]
A A/B A
Drivin' down the West Coast highway
D A A E
The songs out the window / was all he had to lose
A A/B A
Cuttin' heads on the chitlins circuit
D A E A
But he couldn't kick the red dirt off of his / Alligator shoes
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / ain't never gonna stay
A A/B A
Midnight jivin' red dirt hustler
D A E A
Livin' that low down ol' Red River way
[Bridge]
D A D A
And he did it with a Bible / And he did it with a gun
A A/B D E
Tryin' to get away from the damage that he done
D A D A
And he did it with a guitar / Late into the night
A A/B D E
Tryin' to live just like the songs that he would write
[Verse 2]
A A/B A
Snortin' cocaine off a Buck knife
D A A E
3.2 drinkin' / playin' 4/4 time
A A/B A
Tried his best but he could never act right
D A E A
With a honky tonk angel hangin' on / Every single line
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / low and high
A A/B A
Midnight jivin' hayseed hustler
D A E A
With a suitcase full of Dust Bowl lullabyes
[Bridge]
A
He did it with a friend of mine
B
He did it on the Texas line
B D
Said he wouldn't have it any other way
[Verse 3]
A A/B A
Turqoise rings on his index fingers
D A A E
Blowin' the doors off with his blacks and whites
A A/B A
Down the backroads of Muskogee
D A E A
Slippin' it to / some old hayseed's wife
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
He's always leavin' / he ain't never gonna stay
A A/B A
Tells the truth but he's a hustler
[Outro]
D A
Livin' that low down
D A
Dust Bowl preachin'
D A
Red Dirt jivin'
D A
3.2 drinkin'
D A
4/4 timin'
D A
Rockin' and a Rollin'
D A
Indian Gamblin'
D A
Old heart travelin'
E A
Red River way
Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
6/8 time, Key of A, Adam does this in open E with a Capo 7, but, if you're like me,
you don't want to have to waste any time tuning an additional guitar, so this works quite nicely.
[Intro]
A A/B A
D A A E
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / low and high
A A/B A
Rock and rollin' / hayseed hustler
D A E A
With his honky tonk wings and his old snake eyes
[Verse 1]
A A/B A
Drivin' down the West Coast highway
D A A E
The songs out the window / was all he had to lose
A A/B A
Cuttin' heads on the chitlins circuit
D A E A
But he couldn't kick the red dirt off of his / Alligator shoes
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / ain't never gonna stay
A A/B A
Midnight jivin' red dirt hustler
D A E A
Livin' that low down ol' Red River way
[Bridge]
D A D A
And he did it with a Bible / And he did it with a gun
A A/B D E
Tryin' to get away from the damage that he done
D A D A
And he did it with a guitar / Late into the night
A A/B D E
Tryin' to live just like the songs that he would write
[Verse 2]
A A/B A
Snortin' cocaine off a Buck knife
D A A E
3.2 drinkin' / playin' 4/4 time
A A/B A
Tried his best but he could never act right
D A E A
With a honky tonk angel hangin' on / Every single line
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
Comin' and goin' / low and high
A A/B A
Midnight jivin' hayseed hustler
D A E A
With a suitcase full of Dust Bowl lullabyes
[Bridge]
A
He did it with a friend of mine
B
He did it on the Texas line
B D
Said he wouldn't have it any other way
[Verse 3]
A A/B A
Turqoise rings on his index fingers
D A A E
Blowin' the doors off with his blacks and whites
A A/B A
Down the backroads of Muskogee
D A E A
Slippin' it to / some old hayseed's wife
[Chorus]
A A/B A
He was an Oklahoma Gypsy Shuffler
D A A E
He's always leavin' / he ain't never gonna stay
A A/B A
Tells the truth but he's a hustler
[Outro]
D A
Livin' that low down
D A
Dust Bowl preachin'
D A
Red Dirt jivin'
D A
3.2 drinkin'
D A
4/4 timin'
D A
Rockin' and a Rollin'
D A
Indian Gamblin'
D A
Old heart travelin'
E A
Red River way
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