I'm A Pilgrim - Merle Travis - Guitar Tabs

Acoustic Guitar
    
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E|--0-----------0----------|2-----------2----------|

    
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E|--2-----------2----------|-----------------------|

    
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E|-------------------------------|-----------------------|

    
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G|-------------------------|-----------------------|
D|--------6-----------6----|------6----------------|
A|-------------------------|------------------0--1-|
E|--0-----------0----------|0-----------0--4-------|

    
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D|--------2-----------1----|-----------------------|
A|--2----------------------|-----------------------|
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D|--------2-----------------2----|------2-----------2----|
A|--0------------0p--------------|0-----------0----------|
E|-------------------------------|-----------------------|

    
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D|--------2-----------0----|------1-----1-----1----|
A|-------------------------|------------------2----|
E|--0-----------0----------|2----------------------|

    
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A|--------------4-----2----|-----------------------|
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About Merle Travis - Merle Travis was born in Rosewood, Kentucky, United States . His songs' lyrics often discussed both the lives and the economic exploitation of American coal miners . Travis' songs include "Sixteen Tons," "Re-Enlistment Blues," "I am a Pilgrim," and " Merle Travis was born and raised in Muhlenberg County, Kentucky . Travis reportedly saved his money to buy a guitar he had window-shopped for some time . Merle's guitar playing style was developed out of a native tradition of fingerpicking in western Kentucky . Among its early practitioners was the black country blues guitarist Arnold Shultz . Merle Travis's most popular songs include - Sixteen Tons,Dark as a Dungeon. Merle Travis's music is influenced by genre(s) - country , western swing , blues , folk , gospel , americana.