Canyon Joe keyboard

Canyon Joe

• C

 
From the album of the same name. 

Capo 3rd fret 

Chords used: 

C: X32010 
Em: 022000 
F: 133210 
G: 320010 
Am: X02210 

The picking pattern is relatively simple for the most part. There are a couple of minor variations 
on the chords used. For example sometimes the intro and going into the verse uses a variation 
on the G: 



Sometimes notes are added or taken out, but if you stick to the chord shapes you can't really go wrong. For the verse in general: 

        C            Em              F               G 

       Am              F             C       Am       G        F 
 

Intro: G 

Verse: 

C                                    Em 
Well I live in the canyon where the old coyotes howl 

     F                                     G 
They come down from the mountains and the dogs begin to growl 

         Am                                 F 
And they meet up in the darkness, and they fight until the death 

           C                Am          G             F 
When the morning sun is rising I will bury who is left 

 
 
      G        Am       F       C 
 

G          Am 

F                   C         G 
They call me Canyon Joe 
 

       C 
And I stay in the cabin 
         Em 
Where I work my hands to bleed 
           F 
Swing the hammer to the nail 
                 G 
And I swing the axe onto the tree 
    Am 
And I once cleared these woods 
              F 
-yeah there used to be a path 
              C            Am                 G                  F 
And now the trees have overgrown just to prove that nothing lasts 

 
    G          Am 

F                   C         G 
They call me Canyon Joe 
 

     C 
The old man went crazy 
          Em 
He lives high up on the ridge 
               F                            G 
He used to tell me all the stories of the church house and the bridge 
          Am 
But the bridge, she washed away your sin 
       F 
The church house- it got burned 
              C              Am            G              F 
'Cause this world has gone angry and some people never learn 

 
    G          Am 

F                   C         G 
They call me Canyon Joe 
 

     C 
And I once loved a woman 
 Em 
Georgia was her name 
        F                               G 
And we met out in the foothills of the Ozark Mountain Range 
        Am 
And we saw the world together 
            F 
And these sparks that we love most 
            C                 Am 
She still comes to me in dreams 
              G                F 
I am still haunted with her ghost 

 
    G          Am 

F                   C         G (x3) 
They call me Canyon Joe 
 

     C 
And all my thoughts are heavy 
     Em 
My beard, it has grown long 
        F                                      G 
And I search the face of six-strings for an old familiar song 
          Am                                      F 
But the chords, they all sound foreign like the places I have been 
            C                 Am 
So I will close my eyes to sleep 
          G             F 
Tomorrow I will try again 

 
    G          Am 

F                   C         G 
They call me Canyon Joe 

G          Am 

F                   C         G 
They call me Canyon Joe 

         G          Am 

F                   C         G (x3) 
They call me Canyon Joe	 

  

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