Biography:
Billy Joe Shaver (born in Corsicana, TX, on 16 August 1939; died 28 October 2020) was an American Texas country music singer and songwriter. Shaver's 1973 album 'Old Five and Dimers Like Me' is a classic in the outlaw country genre.
Shaver was raised by his mother, Victory Watson Shaver, his father Virgil having left the family before Shaver was born. Until he was 12, he spent a great deal of time with his grandmother in Corsicana so that his mother could work in Waco.
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this is the cords and tab for this song.
i like to introuduce this song by playing an E cord and muting this right away do this
4 times and it should sound good
E A
way down
in virginia
E B
amungst the tall
growed sugar cane
E A B E
lived a simple man, a bottle of Gin and that rose of a different name
repeat same chord pattern
hey the first time i felt lightin
i was standin in a drizzlin rain
with a tremblin hand, a bottle of gin and that rose of a different name
Chorous:
E A
the devil made me do it the first time
E B
the second time i dun it on my own
E A E
Hey lord put a handle on a simple headed man Help me leave that Black Rose
B
alone
here is the main instrumental, it sounds a whould lot better i you have anotherperson
a guitar playing E A B E over and over in rythem
e0-0-0----------------------------------------0-0-0-0-0-1-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-|
b------3-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-3-3-3-1-0----------------------------------------|
g---------------------------------2-0-0-0-0-0---------------------------|
d-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
a-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
same cord pattern
when the devil made that woman
hey he threw the pattern away
cause she were built for speed with the tools ya need to make a new fool every day
hey way down deep and dirty
on the darkest side of shame
you will find this chain cuttin man doin it again whith that rose of a different name
repeat chouous twice until end and between chourses you may want to do the instrumental
octave higher or the same as before or you can choose to do it with out the
either way it sounds awesome
i like to introuduce this song by playing an E cord and muting this right away do this
4 times and it should sound good
E A
way down
in virginia
E B
amungst the tall
growed sugar cane
E A B E
lived a simple man, a bottle of Gin and that rose of a different name
repeat same chord pattern
hey the first time i felt lightin
i was standin in a drizzlin rain
with a tremblin hand, a bottle of gin and that rose of a different name
Chorous:
E A
the devil made me do it the first time
E B
the second time i dun it on my own
E A E
Hey lord put a handle on a simple headed man Help me leave that Black Rose
B
alone
here is the main instrumental, it sounds a whould lot better i you have anotherperson
a guitar playing E A B E over and over in rythem
e0-0-0----------------------------------------0-0-0-0-0-1-3-3-3-3-1-1-1-|
b------3-1-1-1-1-2-3-3-3-3-3-1-0----------------------------------------|
g---------------------------------2-0-0-0-0-0---------------------------|
d-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
a-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
same cord pattern
when the devil made that woman
hey he threw the pattern away
cause she were built for speed with the tools ya need to make a new fool every day
hey way down deep and dirty
on the darkest side of shame
you will find this chain cuttin man doin it again whith that rose of a different name
repeat chouous twice until end and between chourses you may want to do the instrumental
octave higher or the same as before or you can choose to do it with out the
either way it sounds awesome
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