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From: tgannon@charlie.usd.edu (spideir)
HOME OF THE BLUES (As performed by Johnny Cash, on Sun Records)
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--4/4 // Key of E // Moderately
--"bum-chicky" country feel, of course (alternate bass)
--"transcr./arr." tcg, '93, '94
INTRO:
[ ad . . . . . lib . . . . . feel . . . .] [BUM-chicky tempo...]
^ v ^ v ^
||-7--5-|-4-2-0-----------|-----------------|----0-0-----0-0-|--0----------||
||------|-------3-2-0-----|-----------------|----0-0-----0-0-|--0----------||
||------|-------------2-1-|-----------------|----0-1-----0-1-|--1----------||
||------|-----------------|-4-2-0-----------|----2-2-----2-2-|--2----------||
||------|-----------------|-------4-2-0-----|---------2------|--2----------||
||------|-----------------|-------------4-2-|-0--------------|--0--0--2--4-||
h h q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q q e e q e e q q q q
VERSE 1:
A B7 E E
Just around the corner there's heartache--
A B7 E E
Down the street that losers use--
A B7 E E
If you can wade in through the teardrops,
A B7 E E
You'll find me at the Home of the Blues--
VERSE 2:
A B7 E E
I walk and cry while my heartbeat
A B7 E E
Keeps time with the drag of my shoes--
A B7 E E
The sun never shines through this window of mine--
A B7 E E
It's dark at the Home of the Blues--
BREAK:
A A E E
Oh, but the place is filled with the sweetest mem'ries--
B7 B7 E E
Mem'ries so sweet that I cry--
A A E E
Dreams that I've had left me feelin' so bad,
F#7 F#7 F#7 B7 B7
I just want to give up and lay down and die--
VERSE 3:
A B7 E E
So if you've just lost your sweetheart,
A B7 E E
And it seems there's no good way to choose--
A B7 E E
Come along with me, mis'ry loves company--
A B7 E E
You're welcome at the Home of the Blues--
LEAD TACIT--
A B7 E E A A E E B7 B7 E E
VERSE 1 / CODA:
A B7 E E
Just around the corner there's heartache--
A B7 E E
Down the street that losers use--
A B7 E E
If you can wade in through the teardrops,
A B7 E E
You'll find me at the Home of the Blues--
A B7 E E A A E E E
Yeh, you're gonna find me at the Home of the Blues-- =
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| Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) |
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