Alison Krauss – Bonita And Bill Butler chords

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Sat down the other evening to tried and work this out, i love this song so much 
and hope this helps you learn this great song

B7E----------B----------G--2-------D--1-------A--2-------E--0-------
on the G chord, do this as well.E-3------3---B-3------2---G-0------0---D-0------0---A-2------2---E-3----2h3---
Intro: Em, D, A, C, D, Em
Em D AI grew up in the scantling yards of Wheeling West Virginia
C D EmA wheelhouse cub looking for an open door
Em D AIn the packet ways a Sweeney wed the keel of my Bonita
C D EmJust two months from her timbers til she moored
Em D AI paid the fare in billet on her maiden voyage to Vicksburg
C D EmAnd talked my way to hand the tiller on the course
Em D AIn her planks I carved a notch and sealed the vow “Be my Bonita”
C D EmAnd her dowry was my life between the shores
Chorus
Em D C GI was born with rouging ways, and she steered me like a woman
C B7From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray
Em D C GThe calliope serenades, made the old towns come running
C B7And the boys would gamble shards to pull her chains
C D Em The striker’s boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were
Akeeping
C D EmAnd how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved
Em, D, A, C, D, Em x2
Em D AOn the lake at Bistineau, she set the wharf at Dixie
C D EmWith a thousand bales of cotton on her main
Em D AAs the great raft disappeared, the watermark went sinking
C D EmAnd she was stuck right hard, a listing on the bank
Em D AWith the furnace still a blaze, I stood my last upon her
C D EmThen climbed the prow and took a landsman’s trade
Em D A“A derelict now Milady” said the watch log I’ve concorded
C D Em“Have the bosun sound us eight bells for the change”
Chorus:
Em D C GI was born with rouging ways, and she steered me like a woman
C B7From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray
Em D C GThe calliope serenades, made the old towns come running
Em D C GAnd I would take to wider walks, so the gin I stopped a drinking
C B7At three scores aloft this crooked frame
C D Em The striker’s boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were
Akeeping
C D EmAnd how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved
Outro: Em, D, A, C, D, Em
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