Painted Lady

Willis Alan Ramsey

Willis Alan Ramsey recorded one classic album on Leon's Shelter

records back in 73 or 74. The album has been reissued on CD.

W A Ramsey is still giggin' ya gotta see 'im.

Notation: Each chord is a measure, each / is a measure

of the previous chord.

Try these chords:

G 320033

Ca9 332033

F6a9 x33233

W.A. actually plays in different tunings, these changes are

really implied voicings.

Country feel.

G / D /

Followin the stars through the honkey-tonks and bars

F6a9 Ca9 G /

Dream away on a country music pride

G /

Start the evenin' by myself,

D /

but you can bet by the hour of twelve

F6a9 Ca9 G G

Gonna have a pretty painted lady by my side

F6a9 Ca9 G / G /

Talkin' ^Ñbout a pretty painted lady by my side

Now I'll tell that woman how it used to be

when the west was wild and the land was free

How a western word would travel for a country mile

Then one day when the drugstores came

and forced my hand to play a truckin' game

Wishin' to be a cowboy all the while

F C G /

Yes, I was wishin' to be a cowboy all the while

E- / A- /

Painted Lady tell me of the past gone by

G / C /

Hold me like the open range and ride me high

E- / A- C D / D

/

Take me to the days when your dress was made of calico or gingham

C / A- / F6a9 / / /

And a man was a man....

G / G /

Painted Lady with your painted face

Tell me bout your life in this painted place

Tell me with your lovin' lips and lovin' eyes

I can feel the pain, I can see the fears

on the painted cheeks that hide the tears

Of a lovely lonesome cowgirl in disguise

Talkin' bout a lovely lonesome cowgirl in disguise

transcribed by OttMan marten@sky.net