Hobos Lullaby tab - emmylou harris

Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 23:52:41 -0500
From: Chris Howell 
Subject: h/harris_emmylou/hobos_lullaby.crd

Hobo's Lullaby

Emmylou Harris recorded this Woody Guthrie song in 1988 for 
a CD called Folkways: A Vision Shared (A Tribute to Woody 
Guthrie and Leadbelly).  There are a few other songs on the 
CD that are played on acoustic guitar:  Bob Dylan sings 
Pretty Boy Floyd; Bruce Springsteen sings I Ain't Got No 
Home; and Arlo Guthrie does East Texas Red.

In Hobo's Lullaby, Emmylou Harris sings and plays guitar, 
and Mark O'Connor plays fiddle. The fiddle comes in at the 
beginning of the second chorus, and has a solo between the 
chorus and the second verse.  I think the vocals are 
double-tracked on the last chorus.

Intro:  D  D

Chorus
D     D                G    G
Go to sleep.....
A       A                 D  D
Let .....
D         D                    G       G
Can't ......
A        A           D  D
That's a hobo's lullaby

Verse
Chorus
(fiddle solo)
Verse
Chorus

===========================================================
This is the melody for the lyrics.  Chorus and verses have 
the same tune:
   D                          G
e|--------0--2------2---3--2------------------|
G|-----3----------------------3-0-------------|
B|--------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3  4  1      2   3  4  1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
       Go to sleep, ....

   A                           D
e|--------------------------0--2---------------|
G|-2-----0---2-----2----3----------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
D|---------------------------------------------|
A|---------------------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3 4   1     2    3   4  1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
   Let   .....

   D                                  G
e|-----------0---2----2---3-----2-------------------------|
G|-----3------------------------------3---2---------------|
B|--------------------------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------------------------------|
A|--------------------------------------------------------|
E|--------------------------------------------------------|
   1 2 3     4   1    2   3     4     1   2   3 4 1 2 3 4
       Can't ......

   A                            D
e|--------------------3----2----0-----------------|
G|-2-----------0------------------3---------------|
B|-----------------2------------------------------|
D|------------------------------------------------|
A|------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------|
   1      2 3  4   1  2    3    4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
   That's      a   ho-bo's lull-a-by

Chord Formations:
   D G A
e|-2-3-0-|
G|-3-0-2-|
B|-2-0-2-|
D|-0-0-2-|
A|---2---|
E|---3---|


Tabbed by Chris Howell
Comments and corrections can be mailed to	
	cwhowell@student.umass.edu
Submitted November, 1999

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