Blaze Foley is strumming the chords while individually picking out the notes outlined in the tab. Standard Tuning INTRO |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |----0---------------||----0---------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| |-----------0--------||0h3--------0--------||0h3--------3--------||-----------0--------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||-----------2--------||--------------------||--------------------| |-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------| |----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||-----------2--------| |0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||-----------2--------||--------------------||--------------------| |0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------| |----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| |--------------------||----1---------------||-----------0--------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |----0---------------| |0h3--------0--------| verse 1 Saw a dancin' young lady, who worked in a bar... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| A dozen lone rangers, don't know who they are... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------2--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| The waitress was spinnin', my head was ajar... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| And I should have bee home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-----------2--------| |--------------------| |----0---------------| |0h3-----------------| verse 2 Saw a reelin' old drunk man, dancin' around... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| Thought his gray whiskers, still must have been brown... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------2--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| Ida Lupino, wouldn't keep her dress down... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| I should have been home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-----------2--------| |--------------------| |----0---------------| |0h3-----------------| INTERLUDE |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||-----------2--------||--------------------||--------------------| |-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------| |----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||-----------2--------| |0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||-----------2--------||--------------------||--------------------| |0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------| |----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| |--------------------||----1---------------||-----------0--------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-----------2--------| |--------------------| |----0---------------| |0h3-----------------| verse 3 The band rock and rolled, but it wasn't the best... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| Nearly all of them, all sound like the rest... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------2--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |0h3-----------------||----0---------------| Some girls look pretty, but you were the best... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |0h3-----------------||----1---------------| That's why I came home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |-----------2--------| |--------------------| |----0---------------| |0h3-----------------| verse 4 Got home about daylight, I been gone too long... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------3--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |--------------------||----1---------------| Woke up at eleven, and saw you were gone... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||-----------2--------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |0h3-----------------||----0---------------| So I drank lots of coffee, and wrote you this song... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||--------------------| |----0---------------||--------------------| |0h3-----------------||----1------1--------| I wish I'd have been home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||--------------------| |--------------------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||-----------0--------| I wish I'd have been home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||-----------2--------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||--------------------| I wish I'd have been home with you... |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |--------------------||--------------------| |-----------2--------||----0---------------| |----0---------------||-----------0--------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |--------------------| |----0----------0----| |0h3--------0h3------| E Major or E Minor? For me it's difficult to hear as the chord is being picked mostly. I used to play it with E Minor only but haven't seen anyone else doing it so figured I was wrong. Feel free to correct me. This won't make any difference to the notes in the tab anyway. I also did a version with travis picking if anyone is interested.
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