Alison Krauss – Bonita And Bill Butler chords

Sat down the other evening to tried and work this out, i love this song so much 
and hope this helps you learn this great song

B7E----------B----------G--2-------D--1-------A--2-------E--0-------


on the G chord, do this as well.E-3------3---B-3------2---G-0------0---D-0------0---A-2------2---E-3----2h3---

Intro: Em, D, A, C, D, Em 

Em                                  D             AI grew up in the scantling yards of Wheeling West Virginia
   C             D                   EmA wheelhouse cub looking for an open door
Em                                   D          AIn the packet ways a Sweeney wed the keel of my Bonita
     C                   D               EmJust two months from her timbers til she moored
Em                                      D         AI paid the fare in billet on her maiden voyage to Vicksburg
C                             D             EmAnd talked my way to hand the tiller on the course
Em                                            D          AIn her planks I carved a notch and sealed the vow “Be my Bonita”
C                    D                EmAnd her dowry was my life between the shores

Chorus 

      Em                D             C                 GI was born with rouging ways, and she steered me like a woman
         C                                     B7From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray
    Em            D              C              GThe calliope serenades, made the old towns come running
        C                                    B7And the boys would gamble shards to pull her chains
              C                   D               Em                 The striker’s boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were
Akeeping
            C                   D              EmAnd how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved



Em, D, A, C, D, Em x2 


       Em                     D                AOn the lake at Bistineau, she set the wharf at Dixie
       C                 D             EmWith a thousand bales of cotton on her main
       Em                          D              AAs the great raft disappeared, the watermark went sinking
            C                   D              EmAnd she was stuck right hard, a listing on the bank
         Em                       D             AWith the furnace still a blaze, I stood my last upon her
     C                    D                 EmThen climbed the prow and took a landsman’s trade
   Em                            D              A“A derelict now Milady” said the watch log I’ve concorded
          C              D                   Em“Have the bosun sound us eight bells for the change”


Chorus:
     Em                D             C                 GI was born with rouging ways, and she steered me like a woman
         C                                     B7From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray
    Em            D              C              GThe calliope serenades, made the old towns come running
      
            Em            D             C               GAnd I would take to wider walks, so the gin I stopped a drinking
   C                               B7At three scores aloft this crooked frame
              C                   D               Em                 The striker’s boast would fain me loss, about the wrecks the shoals were
Akeeping
            C                   D              EmAnd how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved

Outro: Em, D, A, C, D, Em