E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
G ------7-7-7----------5-5-5--------4p2---4p2---4p2---4p2-----4-4-4--6----------------------------
B ------6-6-6-6--------4-4-4-4------2---2-2---2-2---2-2---2---4-4-4--6--------------------------
D ------6-6-6-6--------4-4-4-4------2---2-2---2-2---2-2---2---4-4-4--6---------------------------
A -4--4-----------2-2------------0----------------------------2-2-2--4----------------
E ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
BPM 119 [Intro] C# B A
[Verse] [C#] Ooh, a storm is threatening my very life today [C#] If I don't get some shelter, oh yeah I'm gonna fade away
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away
[Verse] [C#] Ooh, see the fire is sweepin, our very streets today [C#] Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull lost its way
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] Rape, [B] murder, i [A] t's just a shot away, it's just a shot away, yeah
[Verse] [C#] Mmm, the flood is threatening, my very life today [C#] Gimme, gimme shelter, or I'm gonna fade away
[Chorus] [C#] War, [B] children, [A] it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away [C#] It's [B] just a sho [A] t away, it's just a thought away, it's just a shot away [C#] I sai [B] d, love, s [A] ister, it's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away [C#] It's [B] just a kis [A] s away, it's just a kiss away, kiss away, kiss away, yeah
[Intro - 120 BPM] [Just drums with cowbell - Cowbells muted strums - then ] Cowbell - CCxC CxCx CCxC xSxS (G Chord comes in) Drus - BxSx BxSx BxSx BxSx [G Riff - Really try to play notes individually whilst holding full chord] E -3---------------------------------------- B -3---------------------------------------- G -0--2h4-2-0-2-0--2h4-2-0----0-2-0-0------ D -0-----------------------2----------------- A -X---------------------------------------- E -3---------------------------------------- D--B--S----B--S-----B----S----B----S-----
[Verse 1 - Barre chords for - put G riff in sometimes] I [G] met a gin-soaked barroom queen in Mem [C] phis She [G] tried to take me [A] upstairs for a [D] ride (G riff) She [G] had to heave me right across her [C] shoulder cause [G] I just can't seem to [D] drink you off my [G] mind
[Chorus - Open chords for] It's the [G] ho-ooo [D] o-nky tonk [G] women That [G] gimme, gimme, [D] gimme the honky-tonk [G] blues
[Verse 2] I [G] laid a divorcee in New York C [C] ity I [G] had to put up s [A] ome kind of a f [D] ight The [G] lady then she covered me in r [C] oses She [G] blew my nose and [D] then she blew my m [G] ind
[Chorus] It's the [G] ho-ooo [D] o-nky tonk [G] women That [G] gimme, gimme, [D] gimme the honky-tonk [G] blues
[Solo] | G | G | C | C | | G | A | D | D | | G | G | C | C | | G | D | G | G
[Chorus] It's the [G] ho-ooo [D] o-nky tonk [G] women That [G] gimme, gimme, [D] gimme the honky-tonk [G] blues
It's the [G] ho-ooo [D] o-nky tonk [G] women That [G] gimme, gimme, [D] gimme the honky-tonk [G] blues
[End figure] BSSB SSSB SSSS
[Notes - play sus4 on D and C to approximate riff] [G riff - bass run is (play down strokes for all to articulate)] D ------5- A -------- E -3-5s7--
