e----------0----0---------------------0-----0--------|
B----------1----1---------------------1-----1--------|
G----------2----2---------------------2-----2--------|
D---2------------------2---0---2---------------------|
A----------------------------------------------------|
E----------------------------------------------------|
Play the above 3 times for the Intro before walking up to C on the fifth string like: 0-2-3
CG/CAm 2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro
I fell in love with a girl of nineteen
CG/CAm Walk up to C on 5th
A black-haired girl I called Abilene
CG/CAm
Young girl, where's your husband?
CG/CAm
Sadly, she replied, I do not have one
CG/CAm
Then it's you I'll marry with your parents' permission
humming: Am - C - G/C - AmCG/CAm
No fine sir, they will not let me marry
C
For I am a young girl
G/CAm
And you are a man without money
CG/C
Then I'll come by your window
Am
Tonight when they both will be sleeping
humming: Am - C - G/C - AmCG/CAm
Outside your window in a carriage I will be waiting
CG/C
They'll awake to find you gone
Am
Open their eyes and think they're dreaming
CG/C
And never did they think
Am
That their Abilene would leave them
humming: Am - C - C/G - AmCG/CAm
Now fine sir, where is it you shall take me?
CG/C
Is it in the mountains high
Am
Or is it the deep blue sea?
humming: Am - C - G/C - Am