[VERSE] D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B In the white room, with black curtains, near the station. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Silver horses, ran down moonbeams, in your dark eyes. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 Dawn light smiles, on you leaving, my contentment.
[CHORUS] C G Bb A I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines; C G Bb C D | D N.C. | Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.
[VERSE] D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B You said no strings, could secure you, at the station. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B I walked into, such a sad time, at the station. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 As I walked out, felt my own need, just beginning.
[CHORUS] C G Bb A I'll wait in the queue when the trains come by; C G Bb C D Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves.
[BRIDGE] [5/4] | Gm | F | Dm | C | (x2)
[4/4] | Am7 |
[VERSE] D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B At the party, she was kindness, in the hard crowd. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Consolation, for the old wound, now forgotten. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Yellow tigers, crouched in jungles, in her dark eyes. Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 D5 Csus2 G/B Bb5 C5 She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.
[CHORUS] C G Bb A I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd; C G Bb C D Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.
[BRIDGE] [5/4] | Gm | F | Dm | C | (x2) | Am7 | % |
[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--