The artist, Josh Ritter, cites his early influences as Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan – specifically, Dylan’s “Nashville Skyline” LP. One of the interesting things about Ritter is that he created his own college major at Ohio’s Oberlin College. His self designed major was “American History through Narrative Folk Music.” Being that I like both history and music, I find this fascinating.
“Good Man” comes from Ritter’s fourth album, “The Animal Years,” that was released in 2006 and was later re-released this year in a deluxe edition on CD and in vinyl.
Live Version
The audio quality is not the greatest, but it gives you an idea of what Josh is doing up on the 11th fret on his Gibson J-45. The song is the key of E.
Lyrics
These chords are old but we shake hands
Cause I believe that they're the good guys
We can use all the help we can
So many minor chords outside
I fell in love with the sound
Oh I love to sing along with you
We got tunes we kicked around
We got a bucket that the tunes go through
Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in badlands
I'm a good man
For ya
I'm a good man
Last night there was a horse in the road
I was twisting in the hairpin
My hands held on, my mind let go
And back to you my heart went skipping
I found the inside of the road
Thought about the first time that I met you
All those glances that we stole
Sometimes if you want them then you've got to
Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in badlands
I'm a good man
For ya
I'm a good man
They shot a western south of here
They had him cornered in a canyon
And even his horse had disappeared
They said it got run down by a bad, bad man
You're not a good shot but I'm worse
And there's so much where we ain't been yet
So swing up on this little horse
The only thing we'll hit is sunset
Babe we both had dry spells
Hard times in badlands
I'm a good man
For ya
I'm a good man
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