A Love Song For Bobby Long tab by Grayson Capps

Tabs

He dont even plays the chords straight so use some fills in the verses, too.
Standard Tuning
p = pull off
h = hammer on
/= slide

Chords:

A minorAm  C majorC  G+G B minorBm  D MajorD E minorEm
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Intro (x2):
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A minorAm    C majorC        G+G  A minorAm
Brewton Alabama at The Colonial Inn,
A minorAm       C majorC        G+G         A minorAm
hot day, old orange juice, some vodka on a night stand,
     A minorAm   C majorC      G+G          A minorAm
there's a Chevy Nova with the seat burned out the back,
    A minorAm   C majorC          G+G         A minorAm
from a Winston cigarette, that was stumped into the wind

A minorAm    C majorC        G+G     A minorAm
old Bobby Long was like Zorba the Greek,
A minorAm     C majorC    G+G      A minorAm
Side-tracked by the scent of a woman,
A minorAm         C majorC    G+G     A minorAm
Could've been an actor on a moviescreen
A minorAm    C majorC       G+G      A minorAm
Stayed in Alabama just a dreamer of dreams

G+G
He played football against W.S.E.O.
                    A minorAm (Fill)
should've seen him running down the field
G+G
I grow old, I grow old where the bottoms of my
        A minorAm (Fill)
trousers rolled
      G+G        A minorAm
it's a love song, for Bobby Long
    G+G         A minorAm
A augmentedA love song, for Bobby Long

INTRO (2x)

  A minorAm       C majorC      G+G       A minorAm
he was a handsome man, he had Cherokee cheeckbones
 A minorAm     C majorC   G+G       A minorAm
a fair haired boy, where did he go wrong,
      A minorAm    C majorC      G+G        A minorAm
he chose a roadless travel, made all the difference,
     A minorAm      C majorC       G+G       A minorAm
now he's chastisezed, critisiezed he don't make no sense

G+G                                A minorAm (Fill)
Brewton called him crazy, he said Bobby Long was nothing but a drunk,
G+G                                  A minorAm (Fill)
but all the thoughts in his head was way passed anything they duwmb funk
      G+G          A minorAm
it's a love song, for Bobby Long
      G+G       A minorAm
a love song, for Bobby Long


  B minorBm      A minorAm      G+G      D MajorD
but don't get me wrong, Bobby Long was no good,
  B minorBm    A minorAm  G+G        D MajorD
he'd drag you down, if he thought he could
    A minorAm
well he would drag you down,
  E minorEm
the road I ride will be the day for me
G+G
won't come along
  E minorEm
the road I ride is gonna set me free
G+G
he's gonna take me home


Solo
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     A minorAm       C majorC        G+G        A minorAm
he was a friend of my papa's he used to drink and tell lies
    A minorAm    C majorC           G+G          A minorAm
praised Flannery O'Connors, smoked cigarettes and filosophied
A minorAm     C majorC      G+G    A minorAm
 so here I am at The Colonial Inn
A minorAm        C majorC     G+G      A minorAm
me and Captain Long and my pretty girl-friend
  A minorAm         C majorC        G+G       A minorAm
he charmes her with a poem, then he brakes down and cries
A minorAm       C majorC        G+G         A minorAm
smile a crooked smile, with his broken cheeck-bone side
A minorAm       C majorC   G+G     A minorAm
tells about his life, now he's 63,
  A minorAm       C majorC       G+G        A minorAm
he looks me in the eyes, he says come and go with me

G+G
he could walk on water, walk on water
                    A minorAm (Fill)
but you know you drown themselves and wine
G+G
god and a devil, god and a devil,
                 A minorAm (Fill)
god and a devil along inside his mind
       G+G        A minorAm
it's a love song, for Bobby Long
     G+G        A minorAm
a love song, for Bobby Long

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