Lucero Tabs: The Blue and the Gray

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I started this blog because the tabs on the Lucero message board kept getting lost when they switched sites. A blog isn't a perfect forum for guitar tabs and chords, but it now has posts for all but a handful of their songs. And, to the best of my knowledge, this is the only source for Lucero tabs that has been endorsed by an actual Lucero guitarist. Accept no substitutes.

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Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Blue and the Gray

Main riff and verses chords:

_Em7______D_________Cadd9___G___________D_________G__

-------------------------------3--------0-0-------3--
-----8---------5---------3-----3--------2-2-------3--
-------0---------0---------0---0--------3-0-------0--
-------------------------------0--------0-0-------0--
-7-7-----7s5-5-----5s3-3-------2------------------2--
-----------------------------3-3------------2-2h3-3--

Riff
the family's been here for the last hundred years
and it's all that he's ever known

life in the cotton fields swamps and the rolling hills
always called Arkansas home

D
but when the war came like his father before
Cadd9
he joined the army and went to the war

Riff
leaving the rolling hills swamps and the cotton fields
bound for a Normandy shore

Riff
the patch that he wore on his uniform was
both blue and gray

the colors of men who died fighting another fight
and more would die today

D
at Omaha beach against Germany
Cadd9
a young country boy struggled out of the sea

Em7_______D_________Cadd9___G
up on the sand where many a man
____________D_________G
would never know victory

That's pretty much how it goes. Most of the time during the verses he plays the decending riff, but for the Omaha Beach part and the last part he plays chords instead.