Ramblin Jack Elliott - South Coast Chords

South Coast
(Arlo's version is from the singing of Ramblin' Jack Elliott)
Hard Travelin' Album
Banjo Tuned E, Capo 2, Key D
Think CD is in F(F Bb F C F)


  D            G        D
My name is Juanano de Castro
                         A
My father was a Spanish Grandee
    G                      D               
But I won my wife in a card game
                    G       A     D
To hell with those lords o'er the sea

CHORUS:
                                   G      D
Well the South Coast is wild coast and lonely
                           A
You might win in a game at Cholon
     G                        D
But a lion still rules the Barranca
                    A       D
And a man there is always alone

I played in a card game at Jolon
I played there with an outlaw named Juan
And after I'd taken his money
I staked all against his daughter Dawn

I picked up the ace...l had won her
My heart it was down at my feet
Jumped up to my throat in a hurry
Like a young summer's day she was sweet

He opened the door to the kitchen
And he called the girl out with a curse
Saying "Take her, Goddamn her, you've won her
She's yours now for better or worse"

Her arms had to tighten around me
As we rode down the hills to the south
Not a word did I hear from her that day
Nor a kiss from her pretty young mouth

But that was a gay happy winter
We carved on a cradle of pine
By the fire in that neat little cabin
And I sang with that gay wife of mine

CHORUS