Biography:
Barbara Dickson is a Scottish singer, best known for her stage and concert performances.
Dickson was born in Dunfermline. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties, exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. In the early seventies, she sang at a Liverpool folk club run by a young student teacher called Willy Russell. He showed Barbara the first draft of what would later become the award winning musical, ‘John, Paul, George, Ringo….
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- Answer Me
- Anytime Youre Down And Out
- Boulder To Birmingham
- Cant Get By Without You
- Caravan Song
- Dainty Davie
- Day And Night
- Do Right Woman
- Dont Say Money Doesnt Matter
- Early Morning Rain
- Easy Terms
- False Lover Won Back
- Fine Flowers In The Valley
- Follow You Follow Me
- Geordie
- Highland Harry
- In The Night
- Jamie Raeburn
- January February
- Jock Of Hazeldean
- Johnnie Cope
- Lovely Joan
- My Heart Lies
- My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
- Oer The Water Tae Charlie
- Oh Dear Me
- Only Seventeen
- Parcel Of Rogues
- Que Sera Sera
- Run Like The Wind
- Somethings Wrong
- Steamboat Row
- Sule Skerry
- Sullivans John
- Surrender To The Sun
- Tell Me Its Not True
- The Blacksmith
- The Enniskillen Dragoons
- The Foggy Dew
- The January Man
- The Laird Of Dainty Dounby
- The Plooman Laddies
- The Rigs O Rye
- The Same Sky
- The Shipyard Apprentice
- Time After Time
- Tonight
- Van Diemens Land
- Will You Love Me Tomorrow
- Winters Come
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Barbara Dickson - Boulder To Birmingham
## NOTE 1: ~ = Bass Walk-Down from G to Em ##
## NOTE 1: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to G ##
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[CHORUS:]
G C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[VERSE 1:]
N.C. G ~ Em
I don't want to hear your love song
C G
I got on this airplane just to fly
D
And I know there's life below me
C
But all that you can show me
~ ~ G C G C
Is a prairie and the sky
[VERSE 2:]
N.C. G ~ Em
And I don't want to hear a sad story
C G
Full of heartbreak and desire
D
The last time I felt like this
C
I was in the wilderness
~ ~ G C G C
And the canyon was on fire
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
And I stood on the mountain
G
In the night and I watched it burn
D
I watched it burn
G
I watched it burn
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[VERSE 3:]
N.C. G ~
Well, you really got me this time
Em C G
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive
D
I have come to listen for the sound
C
Of the trucks as they roll down
~ ~ G C G C
Out on ninety-five__
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
I pretend that it's the ocean
G
Coming down to wash me clean
D
To wash me clean
G
Baby, do you know what I mean
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[INSTRUMENTAL:] D G ~ Em C G D C ~ ~ G D
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
I pretend that it's the ocean
G
Coming down to wash me clean
D
To wash me clean
G
Baby, do you know what I mean
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
## NOTE 1: ~ = Bass Walk-Down from G to Em ##
## NOTE 1: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to G ##
CAPO: 2nd Fret
[CHORUS:]
G C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[VERSE 1:]
N.C. G ~ Em
I don't want to hear your love song
C G
I got on this airplane just to fly
D
And I know there's life below me
C
But all that you can show me
~ ~ G C G C
Is a prairie and the sky
[VERSE 2:]
N.C. G ~ Em
And I don't want to hear a sad story
C G
Full of heartbreak and desire
D
The last time I felt like this
C
I was in the wilderness
~ ~ G C G C
And the canyon was on fire
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
And I stood on the mountain
G
In the night and I watched it burn
D
I watched it burn
G
I watched it burn
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[VERSE 3:]
N.C. G ~
Well, you really got me this time
Em C G
And the hardest part is knowing I'll survive
D
I have come to listen for the sound
C
Of the trucks as they roll down
~ ~ G C G C
Out on ninety-five__
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
I pretend that it's the ocean
G
Coming down to wash me clean
D
To wash me clean
G
Baby, do you know what I mean
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
[INSTRUMENTAL:] D G ~ Em C G D C ~ ~ G D
[PRE-CHORUS:]
Em A D C
I pretend that it's the ocean
G
Coming down to wash me clean
D
To wash me clean
G
Baby, do you know what I mean
[CHORUS:]
C G
I would rock my soul in the bosom of Abraham
D G
I would hold my life in his saving grace
C G
I would walk all the way from Boulder to Birmingham
D G
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
D G D
If I thought I could see, if I could see your face
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