Knuckleball Catcher chords

Gillian Welch

Key: 

Simplify chords 

Capo: 3st fret

  			





Intro / “Thing”: 

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



Verse: 

    G        C/G 

e|--3--------0-----------|    
B|--0/1------1-----------| 
G|--0--------0-----------| 
D|--0--------2-----------|    
A|--2--------3-----------| 
E|--3--------3-----------| 



G                                             C/G 
Caught my eye, in a flash of lightning in the rain 
G                                             D        
Out in the darkness, with a banjo in your hands 

G                                                  C/G      A 
You came into the firelight, to the circle from the gloom 
G                                             D       *thing* 
I was standing child like, while you got yourself in tune 


       D                      C/G                 G 
And a bridge player, could be an all-time player too 
       D                      C/G                 A 
But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do 

   C/G     D                          the move from C/G to D is 
He only gets on job to do             a slide of the whole form 
                                      two frets up 
“Thing” - Tu-do-do 



G                                             C/G 
You played your melody, it was too much for me 
G                                             D        
It froze my flesh down, to minus nine degrees 

G                                                  C/G      A 
I was passing a grave yard, full of flowers on mother’s day 
G                                             D       *thing* 
That’s the last time I let a stranger rip my heart this way 


Thing”: 
e|---3----3----0----0---|    
B|---0----0----0----1---| 
G|---0----0----0----0---| 
D|---0----0----2----2---|    
A|---2----0----2----3---| 
E|---3----2----0----3---| 


       D                      C/G                 G 
Now a good mother, could be a dashboard drummer to 
       D                      C/G                 A 
And a bridge player, be an all time player when he’s through 
C/G     D        
But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do 


                         *Notice, D is usually C/G, two frets up 


Solo also played while Gillian plays the “Thing”: 

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


When your trial was finished, you slipped out in the quiet 
Not trying to follow, my shoes just caught on fire 

So I... searched the camp ground, I never saw your face again 
Well you had, a devil woman, just a bluegrass friend 
Cause a left-winger, could be a bluegrass singer too, and that’s a hard lonesome truth 
And some hard liquor, could make a guitar picker out of you 
But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do 

Tu-do-do 
Tu-do-do 
Tu-do-do