Reckless Kelly - Little Blossom

      
 
 Intro: Em
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 Little Blossom Choked and her daddy croaked
 (A)                            Em          
 Her sad face toked and her long pipe smoked
 G                  D              Em  
 She drank herself to sleep every night
 (lyrics are sketchy here)
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 She had colts to ride a few steers to find
 (A)                           Em 
 Deer meat, fish and spuds to fry
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 But inside she cried somehow my life aint right
 
 (repeat progression thruout song)
 
 She knew she had to take a big ride,
 across the desert and the valley wide
 pass a couple little towns to another one that she knew
 she left her saddle and her medicine belt
 with her ole uncle cause he knew how she felt
 made a prayer over her bones and away she flew
 
 interlude is the same chords as verses
 
 David's part:

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 She looked at me thru bleary eyes
 And when she spoke , much to my surprise
 She told me things I would have never known
 She was takin her meals back to mexico
 She quoted bob Dylan and Geronimo
 We ate lots of mushrooms and chased em down with joe crow
 She told me shed been stabbed 3 times
 Been married twice and been on the wine
 Smokin cigarettes don't stunt your growth
 And you can bury your heart at wounded knee
 Or get a scan from the university
 Somehow I had the feelin shed done both
 
 Interlude
 "You can praise the Lord and bury your dead
 Or you can be your own God," she said,
 "Ive sold myself but I have made a livin"
 So buy me drinks and toast to my health
 Tomorrow ill forgive myself
 Ive got nobody else who needs forgivin
 She was makin me a proposition
 If I would just shut up and listen
 Shed pay me back in time when she got home
 With a little help from the stars and moon
 She said I wont be returnin soon
 I told her she could call me on the phone
 
 interlude
 
 Now Little Blossom combs out her hair
 And lives alone way out there
 At night she lays her tired old body down
 She rides some colts and runs some steers
 Deals with all her doubts and fears
 Does her best to stay away from town
 
 Nah it don't do to stay away from town.