True Blue Jeans chords and lyrics - RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT

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[Verse 1]
[D]Let me tell you about [A]a pair
of jeans I [D]once had.
[A]I bought them in a w[D]ork clothes shop,
[A]not a store anymore.
[D]Where a sailor ashore can find
good [A]work clothes [D]galore.
I'm talking [A]about a place,
[D]Ace, where a cowboy [A]in town
can [D]drown his sorrows in good blue
denim and can[Bb]vas b[D]rown.
It's there I spies [G]these [Em]old
[G]Levi's.
[Gm]I me[D]an, [Em]they're brand spanki[E]n' n[A]ew,
but the style was [D]old.
[A]True blu[D]e jeans.
[A]Made of dark [D]blue [A]cloth.
[Em]Got that [A]sweet [D]soapy smell in there.
Thick and [A]hard so they'll
[D]wear [Bm]real [D]well.[A][Em]
[A]Buy [D]them loose,
cause [A]they're gonna shrink.
[D]I give them three extra inches in length,
and two in the [A]waist.
They'll soon [D]fit tight,
[A]Provided you wash and
[D]dry [A]them right.
[Em]Here's [A]what I'd don[D]e,
and it's half the fun.
True [Bb]blue [D]jeans.
From the days when a man's
best friend was his old six -gun,
[E]I passed a r[A]ope up one leg[D] and side,
[A]Crossed it down the other [D]side,
Closed [A]that [D]bite with a bowlin' knife,
[A]Tied the bitter end to [D]a stump nearby,
and tossed them in the creek
and watched [A]them sink.
[D]I left them soaking o[A]vernight,
[Bm]when morning come [D]I s[A]aw the sigh[D]t.
I pulls them out, unties the line,
[A]wrung [Em]them out[A],
[D]hung them on a branch to [A]bake in the[D] sun,
like they [A]done on the [D]ranch.
True [G]blue [Bb]jeans.[D]
I pulls them off when they're bone dry,
It was still [Bb]quite [D]stiff, [E]I can testify,
[A]But softer the[D]n than they were before.
[A]Now I can walk [D]from here to the door,
[A]Not stiff as [D]a board, but they still got[A]
some [D]stout,
Which will ease your comfort
in the saddle,
[A]Scout.
True [D]blue jeans,
[A]And tha[D]t's the way they
made them [A]when
Your old 44 [D]was your very best friend.
[G]When your word was [E]true,
[D]and genes were dar[B]k blu[E]e.
[A][D]