Artist: Emmylou Harris | Song: My Antonia

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Song: My Antonia Tab

Emmylou Harris    My Antonia   written by Emmylou Harris


B                    E      B
He said  Oh my love  Oh my Antonia 
B                          F#    
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin 
B                        E      B
Tonight I am going from Santa Maria 
B                            F#        B
Wait for me till I'm in your arms once again
B                           E                 B
She held me  she kissed me  begged me not to leave her 
B                           F#
To cross on the mountain my fortune to win 
B                          E            B
But a letter now tells me she died of a fever 
B                      F#         B
I'll never see her in this world again
F#                  B
You are my sorrow   you are my splendor 
F#                          B
You are my shelter through storm and through strife 
F#                     B         E
You are the one I will always remember 
B           F#         B
All off the days of my life 
B                         E           B
I curse the ambition that took me far from her 
B                          F#
For a treasure not ever so fine or so fair 
B                                E            B
As the flash of her smile or the touch of her fingers 
B                           F#               B 
The fire in her heart and   the smell of her hair 
G#m                        F#
She left me a note that cried  Do not weep for me 
E               B                       F#
Behold you are with me as sure as the stars 
G#m                         E           B
That rise in the evening to shine down upon me 
B                         F#      B
Behold I am with you wherever you are 
B                        E          B
I can still hear him he calls to me only 
B                            F#
What once was begotten shall come to no end 
B                               E             B
But the road is so long and the nights are so lonely 
B                           F#         B
My soul just to hold him in this world again 
F#                B
You are my sorrow you are my splendor 
F#                          B
You are my shelter through storm and through strife 
F#                     B         E
You are the one I will always remember
B          F#         B
All of the days of my life
B           E      B
Oh my love  Oh my Antonia 
B                          F#
You with the dark eyes and palest of skin 
B                              E     B
How could I know that night in Santa Maria
B                    F#         B
I'd never see you in this world again

From Emmylou Harris 'Red Dirt Girl'
Nonesuch Records 2000
Poodlebone Music

Buddy Miller    guitar/steel guitar
Ethan Johns     acoustic guitar/mando cello
Malcolm Burn    harmonica/acoustuc guitar/synth bass
Daryl Johnson   bass
Dave Matthews   vocals
Emmylou         vocals/acoustic guitar