Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🤘 Intro:
| C majorC | FF | 2x
🤘 Verse:
C majorC
Oooh I love you, baby
FF
I love you night and day
C majorC FF
When I leave you, baby, don't cry the night away
C majorC FF
When I die, don't you write no words upon my tomb
C majorC
I don't believe I want to leave
FF
No epitaph of doom
🤘 Chorus:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G C majorC FF G+G
I wanna leave some happy woman living on
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G
Don't want nobody to mourn
FF C majorC
Beside my grave
🤘 Verse:
C majorC
Old Mama Linda
FF
She's out to get my hide
C majorC FF
She's got a shotgun and her daughter by her side
C majorC
Hey there, ladies
FF
John son's free
C majorC
Who's got the love, who's got enough
FF
To keep a man like me
🤘 Chorus:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G C majorC FF G+G
I wanna leave some happy woman living on
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G
Don't want nobody to mourn
FF C majorC
Beside my grave
🤘 Solo:
| C majorC | FF | 4x
🤘 Chorus:
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G C majorC FF G+G
I wanna leave some happy woman living on
C majorC G+G A minorAm FF
Ooh ooh ooh - when I'm dead and gone
C majorC G+G
Don't want nobody to mourn
FF C majorC
Beside my grave
🤘 Instrumental:
| C majorC FF G+G | 4x
🤘 Outro:
C majorC FF
Oh la la
G+G C majorC FF
Oh la la, yeah yeah
G+G C majorC FF
Oh la la
G+G C majorC FF G+G C majorC FF C majorC
Oh la la, yeah yeah yeah yeah