Track 06
I Don’t Mind
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I Don’t Mind
I seem to have written an Appalacian style murder ballad...
guitars and mandolin - and a deep country harmony from Steve.
words and music by Martin Stirrup 2016
(6/8) (with a 2/4 kick – one two and three four…)
Chorus D G D
I don’t mind the stranger knocking at my door
A Em G A
like I don’t mind the ranger, telling me the law
D G Bm
I’m past the time for anger and I’m not one to implore
D A Bm G Em A D
I lost my shirt, but it don’t hurt the way it did before
A Em G A
If things started with a whisper , as folks sometimes say
Bm D A
Then I would surely miss her, if she went away
Bm D A
But she came like a mighty storm with trouble in her wake
D G Bm A
And what she did, she never hid, she did for her own sake
Some folks like to play it safe, some folks try their luck
Some folks on the bit do chaff, their fortunes for to pluck
She had no ambivalence, no waver to her quest
She came in fast it couldn’t last and you all know the rest…
If you’re looking for a moral, or looking for a cause
With me you have no quarrel, you’re logic has no flaws
You who stand before me and chain me by the wrist
Not you nor me can ever see the way the fates will twist
Final:
D A Bm G Em F#m
I lost my shirt, but it don’t hurt the way it did before
D A Bm G Em ……A D
I lost my shirt, but it don’t hurt……..the way it did before