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i am a man of constant sorrow
i've seen trouble all my days
i'll say goodbye to colorado
the place where I was born and raised

your mother says i'm a stranger
my face you'll never see no more
but there's one promise, darling
i'll see you on god's golden shore

through this open world i'm about to ramble
through ice, snow, sleet and rain
i am about to ride the mornin' railroad
perhaps i'll die on that train

i'm going back to colorado
place that i started from
if i'd knowed how bad you'd treat me
honey, i never would have come

04. Man Of Constant Sorrow
(trad.) I suppose we can say this arrangement is mine but is based on the one what Rod Stewart uses on his early recording from the late 60's. I don't much like Stewart music, but this was one of my favourites from the childhood. The movie 'O Brother Where Are Thou' made the track famous - that's why I remembered it and because our local band, The Petty Pilgrims, plays that. I had some hard times to find out and to believe that these tracks would be the same. I guess Rod Stewart made his arrangement really far away from the original. He also used some lyrics which made Davy and I found not acceptable here and there. 'Where I was born and probably raised' turned into 'The place where I was born and raised' and 'rob the morning railroad' became 'ride the morning railroad'. But we didn't do anything to the obscurity that at the first verse guy is leaving Colorado, and on fourth verse he is coming back there. So when and where did he leave from? Or did he? Second and the last time (on this box) when my guitar in tuned in DADGAD. --Jore I think the problem with Rod Stewart's lyrics is that he copied the Bob Dylan version - and Bob was never too much concerned about what he was singing in the early days. I think the changes we made to the words makes more sense - apart from whether he's going to Colorado or leaving - or has already left and is on his way back. This is the most gentle version of the song I've heard. It suits the DADGAD tuning very well. --Davy