Standard Tuning, from 1st string to 6th: 0-1-0-0-2-3 On a couple of the Am's in this song, Damien strikes the fourth string on the second fret, then plays the same string open, and then hits it again with his finger on the second fret. Such is the case in the Intro, which is played like: 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 on the fifth string like: 0-2-3 I fell in love with a girl of nineteen 2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro A black-haired girl I called Abilene Walk up to on 5th Young girl, where's your husband? Sadly, she replied, I do not have one Then it's you I'll marry with your parents' permission humming: No fine sir, they will not let me marry For I am a young girl And you are a man without money Then I'll come by your window Tonight when they both will be sleeping humming: Outside your window in a carriage I will be waiting They'll awake to find you gone Open their eyes and think they're dreaming And never did they think That their Abilene would leave them humming: Now fine sir, where is it you shall take me? Is it in the mountains high Or is it the deep blue sea? humming:
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