[Intro Keyboard riff - BPM 116 - G = 3x003x G* = 355433, C/G 335553 - Capo 2 for original key] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx GxxG* xx(C/G)G* xxxx xxxx
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] wild, [C] standing [G] there , ....[G] with her hands in her [Em] hair [Am] I [G/B] can't [C] help re [G] member,...... [Em] just where she touched me [Fadd9] [Dm7] ....... There's [C]still [G]no face [Dm7] ....... here [C]in [G]her place
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] cool, [C] she [G] was like [D7sus4-xx0213] jazz on a summer's day [D7] [Am] Mu- [G/B] sic, [C] high [G] and sweet, [D7sus4] then she just blew away [D7]
[Chorus - just bass drum Bxxb Bxxx - Esus2/G# = 476454 - no sus2] [D/F#] Now she [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms - Va le (drums back in) [C] Rie [G] eeee [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me [G] eeee [C] Vale [G/B] rie Come and [Csus2] (drums stop) see--------(b+Csus2 b+Csus2 - second on me) me, I'm the same (bass drum in) boy I used to be
[Verse] [Am] Love [G/B] songs [C] fill the [G] night,....[G] but they don't tell it [Em] all, [Am] Not [G/B] how [C] lovers [G] cry out,..... [Em] just like they are dy [Fadd9] ying [Dm7] .......... Her [C]cries [G]hang there [Dm7] ....... in [C]time [G]somewhere
[Verse] [Am] Some [G/B] day, [C] some [G] good wind, [D7sus4] may blow her back to me [D7] [Am] Some [G/B] night [C] I__ [G] may hear, [D7sus4] her like she used to be [D7]
[Chorus] [D/F#] No they [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms Vale [C] rie,---- [G] ------- [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me,--- [G] ------- [C] Valer [G/B] ie Come and [Csus2] see--------me, I'm the same boy I used to be
[Verse] [Am] So [G/B] cool, [C] she [G] was like, [D7sus4] jazz on a summer's day [D7] [Am] Mu- [G/B] sic, [C] high [G] and sweet, [D7sus4] then she just blew away [D7]
[Chorus - just bass drum Bxxb Bxxx] [D/F#] Now she [C] can't be that [G] warm [D/F#] with the [C] wind in her [G] arms - Va le (drums back in) [C] Rie [G] eeee [D] call on [C] me, call on [Em] me [G] eeee [C] Vale [G/B] rie Come and [Csus2] (drums stop) see--------(b+Csus2 b+Csus2 - second on me) me, I'm the same (bass drum in) boy I used to be
[Riff] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx GxxG* xx(C/G)G* xxxx xxxx [Ending] GxxG* xxxx x(C/G)Gx (C/G)xxx I'm the [G] same boy I used be.___ [G] (hard stop) [End]
[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--
