Four Strong Winds (chromatic)

by Ian Tyson, Neil Young, Johnny Cash · posted by WaltP

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FOUR STRONG WINDS
By: Ian Tyson
Neil Young, Johnny Cash
Key: C

  3    -3   4   4  4  4-4 -3 -3  
Guess I'll go down to Al-ber-ta, 
  -3   4    -4    -4  4  -5   3
Weath-er's good there in the fall.
1  3   -3     4     3   4   4   -3
I got some friends that I could go 
-1  -3   4  -4
to work-in' for.
  4  -5   6    6     -5     5   -5
Still I wish you'd change your mind, 
-3 4  -4   -4   4   -5    3
if I asked you one more time
-5    6    -6     -6    -6
But we've been through this 
-6 4    4    4   -2   3
a hun-dred times or more.

  3     4      4    4    -4   -3  -3
Four strong winds that blow lone-ly, 
-3  4   -4   4   -5   3
Sev-en seas that run high,
 3    -3     4     4   -4     -3
All those things that don't change, 
 -3    4  -4  -1 2 -2 3 -2 2
come what may.
4  -5    6    6   -5  5-5  -5 
If the good times are all gone, 
 -3   4   -4   -4   4  -5  3
then I'm bound for mov-ing on.
 -5   6   -6  -6  -6  6  4  4   4    -2   3
I'll look for you if I'm ev-er back this way.

|-1 2 -2 |3 -2 2 -1 3 -3 |

3 -3  4    4   4   4   -4   -3    -3
If I get there be-fore the snow flies, 
-3  4    -4   -4    4  -5    3
and if things are look-ing good.
 3   -3    4   3  3  3  -3  -1   -3   4   -4
You could meet me if I send you down the fare,
 4  -5   6  6    -5  5  -5  -5
But by then it would be win-ter, 
-3   4   -4  -4   4  -5  3
not too much for you to do.
-5    6     -6   -6  -6   -6     
And those winds sure can blow 
 4    4  -2    3   -1 2 -2 3 -2 2
cold way out there.

  3     4      4    4    -4   -3  -3
Four strong winds that blow lone-ly, 
-3  4   -4   4   -5   3
Sev-en seas that run high,
 3    -3     4     4   -4     -3
All those things that don't change, 
 -3    4  -4  -1 2 -2 3 -2 2
come what may.
4  -5    6    6   -5  5-5  -5 
If the good times are all gone, 
 -3   4   -4   -4   4  -5  3
then I'm bound for mov-ing on.
 -5   6   -6  -6  -6  6  4  4   4    -2   3
I'll look for you if I'm ev-er back this way.

3-2 2 -1 
-5   6   -6  -6  -6  6  4  4   4    -2   3
I'll look for you if I'm ev-er back this way.

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