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+=====Jeff Davis County Blues=====
+<code>
+Tab by dan – dtrom4 at aol dot com
+Comments / corrections welcome.
+The riff follows something like the one below.  Throw it (or some variation) in where appropriate.
+Because I’m feeling thorough, here it is with barre or open chords.
+e|-----3---------------------------3------------------------|
+B|-----3---------------------------0--1-p0------------------|
+G|-----5---5-p4--------------------0--------0---------------|
+D|-----5---------5-----------------0-----------0------------|
+A|-----4-----------5---------------2------------------------|
+E|-----3---------------------------3------------------------|
+(I actually play it with the old capo on three, so if you’re math inclined, you could subtract 3 from that first riff.
+For beginners keeping score at home, capo three gives you E A for the main bit, and then throw in Am and B)
+Enough ranting.  Enjoy!
+G C
+G
+after three nights in jail, i head north from toyahvale.
+C
+switch to 285 in pecos, head up to red bluff.
+G
+my walk's real steady and my eyes are real cold
+but i feel like i'm all of sixteen years old --
+C							      G
+lost in the travel lodge, with the television on with the sound down,
+i don't feel so tough.
+Cm            D		      G
+old issues of sunset magazine to read,
+                    Cm D		   G
+sleep for twelve hours, and dream about home.
+i have no place to go, so i drive up to new mexico.
+fix my eyes in the rearview when i cross the state line.
+and i panic, i guess. and although it's quite late,
+i take the first exit to 128.
+i am coming back to midland.
+i hope you won't mind.
+polaroids of the two of us scattered on the passenger's seat.
+i drive slowly
+and evenly
+and i dream about home.
+</code>

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