Chords with lyrics
SHORT HAIRED WOMAN BLUES
from "Nashville Obsolete"
transcribed by Tim Herold
NOTE: Dave capos the 1st fret (F minorFm = Em, etc.), while Gil capos the 8th (F minorFm = Am, etc.)
Main riff:
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
E MajorE|----------------------------------------------------------------|
BB|----------------------------------------------------------------|
G+G|----------------------------------------------------------------|
D MajorD|----------------------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|-----------------------------3---1-----------1-3-1--------------|
e|-1-----------1-3-4---------------------------------------4---3--|
INTRO:
G#G# D#4 F#F# C#C# Bb7Bb7
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F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
VERSE:
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
Met her on a harvest moon, once upon a time in the mid-
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
west
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
She told me as we stole away, that she was freer than all the
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
rest
PRECHORUS:
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C#
With her hair cut like a farmboy and her cards so close to her breast
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C# Bb majorBb
Just how much harm she could do me... No, I never would have guessed
CHORUS:
FF Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Don't go chasing wild ponies; they're half crazy and they run
FF D#D# Bb majorBb Bbsus2Bbsus2 Bb majorBb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D#D# FF
after thinking it was all in fun
VERSE:
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
We came upon a boomer shack; she broke the windows just
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
because
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
Later along the railroad track, she laid me down-- that's how she
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
was
PRECHORUS:
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C#
With the first rush of the freight train, there was rain on the high summer corn
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C# Bb majorBb
"Oh, it's just a game," she told me; I said, "No, I am reborn"
CHORUS:
FF Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
Don't go chasing wild ponies; they're half crazy when they run
FF D#D# Bb majorBb Bbsus2Bbsus2 Bb majorBb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D#D# FF
after thinking it was all in fun
INTERLUDE:
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
hmm- mmm, all in
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
fun
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
VERSE 3:
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
As for her whereabouts, I hear she's living in Baton
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
Rouge
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
Giving all those Creole men the short-haired woman
F minorFm G#G# Bb majorBb BbmBbm C5C5
blues, ooooooh ooooooooh
OUTRO:
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C#
the short-haired woman
G#G# D#D# F#F# C#C# Bb majorBb
blues
FF Bb majorBb FF Bb majorBb
FF D#D# Bb majorBb Bbsus2Bbsus2 Bb majorBb
Don't go lovin' short haired women, they're gonna leave you cryin'
D#D# FF
after thinking it was all in fun
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