Heartstrings chords - Alison Krauss

How to Play "Heartstrings" Guitar chords

Heartstrings by Alison Krauss
written by Marshall Wilborn
Album:  Every Time You Say Goodbye
Transcribed by Bruce DeBoard 

This song is played with a capo on the second fret I believe,
although it is by no means a must.  Play it in whatever key
you like.  However, the chords below are more shapes if you put
a capo on.  What I have below is for without a capo.  I play it
with the capo on the second fret, but I still play a G shape, or
a D shape, you get it.

Also, the G and Em I have in mind here are not standard G and Em,
although you can use those if you want.  I use these:

   EADGBE
G  xx5433 (this is from open, whether it be headstock or capo)
Em xx2000 (same as above)

I do use the standard G if I am going to go to the chorus
directly after, so I can walk up to the C, but most other places
I do not.  You can do whatever you want. 

[Verse 1]


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G      D                Em   Bm
Way up north, where the snow flies
        C         D      G      D
And the sun don't hardly shine
G             D    Em      Bm
If it weren't for, my true love
         C         G      D
I'd have long ago lost my mind
                          G      D   
I'd have long ago lost my mind

[Verse 2]

There's good folks here and good folks there
most everywhere I go
But the land of my heart is down
where the snow white cotton grows
where the snow white cotton grows

[chorus]
         C          Bm            Am      G
When the river runs over from the melting snow
        C           D      G
we will take to the higher ground
         C          Bm                Am         G     
when the water goes down again, we'll saddle our old paint
C        D        G
we'll be homeward bound
       C       Bm      D        G
me and my love will be homeward bound

[solo]  play verse

[verse 3]
Heartstrings hold tighter than the roots of a live oak tree
holding through tornado wind
tougher than timber, stronger than steel
they'll guide me back southward again
they'll guide me back southward again

[repeat chorus]


[Thanks to Brian Osborne for corrections]