from: rickl1@ix.netcom.com
to:   alt.guitar.tab


Dixie Chicks    Wide Open Spaces written by Susan Gibson

Natalie Maines   lead vocals/acoustic guitar
Emily Erwin      dobro/banjo/acoustic guitar/harmony
Martie Seidel    fiddle/mandolin/harmony
Joe Chemay       bass
Lloyd Maines     steel guitar
George Marinelli electric guitar 
Mark Casstevens  acoustic guitar
Matt Rollings    keyboards
Billy Joe Walker acoustic guitar
Paul Worley      electric & acoustic guitar
Michael Rhodes   bass

 
E           Esus/A        E            Esus E
Who doesn't know what I'm talking About
E                Esus/A            E   Esus E
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
          A                         E  Esus E
To find a dream and a life of their own
  A                                 B              
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
E        Esus/A             E   Esus  E  
Many precede and many will follow
E              Esus/A          E    Esus E
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
             A                   E   Esus E
It takes the shape of a place out West
            A                         B    Bsus  B 
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
E              F#m  A     B
She needs wide ppen spaces
E       F#m           A   B
Room to make her big mistakes
          E F#m A     B
She needs n-ew  faces
               E   F#m A B
She knows high stakes
E                  Esus/A    E   Esus E
She travelled this road as a child
              Esus/A               E Esus  E
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
            A                             E  Esus E
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
             A                           B    Bsus B
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
E              F#m  A     B
She needs wide open spaces
E       F#m           A   B
Room to make her big mistakes
          E F#m A     B
She needs n-ew  faces
               E   
She knows high stakes
    F#m            A    B    
She knows the high stakes

solo

E                  Esus/A                         E Esus E

As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check The Oil!"
                   Esus/A                           E Esus E
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm Leaving My Girl"
             A                          E  Esus E
She says, it didn't seem like that long ago
         A                           B     Bsus B
When she stood there and let her own folks know
E              F#m  A     B
She needs wide open spaces
E       F#m           A   B
Room to make her big mistakes
          E F#m A     B
She needs n-ew  faces
               E   
She knows high stakes
    F#m            A    B    
She knows the high stakes

From The Dixie Chicks 'Wide Open Spaces'
Monument Records 1998
Pie Eyed Music(BMI)