flatwound has a great version of the recorded version
This one has the structure of the live performance at Jill's Veranda
with Dave Rawlings.
Extra Chorus and break after verse 2.

[Intro]
       

[Verse 1]
            
I lost you a w

            
hile ago, but 

              
still I don't 

     
know why
            
I can't say yo

            
ur name, witho

              
ut a crow flyi

      
ng by
             
Got to watch m

            
y back, now th

              
at you've turn

      
ed me around
            
Got me walking

              
 backwards, in

           
to my home-tow

n

[Chorus]
            
Throw me a rop

             
e, on the roll

    
ing tide
           
What did you w

/           
ant me to be, 

            
you said it's 

    
him or me
          
The way you ma

            
de it, that's 

              
the way it wil

       
l be


[Verse 2]
            
It was seven y

              
ears on the Bu

            
rma shore, wit

              
h gatling guns

     
 and pain
            
Working the lo

              
wlands door-to

            
-door, like a 

            
latter day sai

   
nt
             
Then you turn 

            
me out, at the

            
 top of the st

airs
            
You took all t

              
he glory, that

              
 you just coul

     
dn't share

[Chorus]
            
Throw me a rop

             
e, on the roll

    
ing tide
           
What did you w

/           
ant me to be, 

            
you said it's 

    
him or me
          
The way you ma

            
de it, that's 

              
the way it wil

       
l be

[Break]
      


[Verse 2]
            
I've never bee

              
n so disabused

            
, I've never b

       
een so mad
            
I've never bee

              
n served anyth

            
ing, that tast

         
ed so bad
             
You might need

            
 a friend, any

              
 day now, any 


day
            
Oh my brother 

              
be careful, yo

              
u are drifting

  
 away

[Chorus]
            
Throw me a rop

             
e, on the roll

    
ing tide
           
What did you w

/           
ant me to be, 

            
you said it's 

    
him or me
          
The way you ma

            
de it, that's 

              
the way it wil

       
l be
          
The way you ma

            
de it, that's 

              
the way it wil

        
l be