HOME OF THE BLUES (As performed by Johnny Cash, on Sun Records) ================= --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 .. A B7 E E Down ... A B7 E E If .. A B7 E E You'll .. VERSE 2: A B7 E E I .. A B7 E E Keeps .. A B7 E E The .. A B7 E E It's .. BREAK: A A E E Oh, .. B7 B7 E E Mem'ries .. A A E E Dreams .. F#7 F#7 F#7 B7 B7 I .. VERSE 3: A B7 E E So .. A B7 E E And .. A B7 E E Come .. A B7 E E You're .. LEAD TACIT-- A B7 E E A A E E B7 B7 E E VERSE 1 / CODA: A B7 E E Just .. A B7 E E Down .. A B7 E E If .., A B7 E E You'll .. A B7 E E A A E E E Yeh, ..= *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* | Thomas C. Gannon | tgannon@charlie.usd.edu | U of SoDak (Vermillion) | * ------------------------------- _-^-_ ------------------------------- * | "--If I decide to practice a / o)=\ slight movement from right | * to left . . . or from left { /===} to right . . . it's * | nobody's business but my \ (=o=/ own." (_A_Day_for_Eeyore_) | *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===* ^-_=^ *===*===*===*===*===*===*===*===*
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