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Graceland by Justin Townes Earle

Graceland tab by Justin Townes Earle

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Submitter: Ingo66
Capo on 6th

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)


INTRO:
  G+G

e|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---| x6
D MajorD|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|

Verse 1:

 G+G

           Well the Mississippi  Delta was

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G              C majorC

  shining like a national guitar.         And I'm

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-1-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-------------|-------------|

  E minorEm

  follow'n the river down the highway thru the cradle of the civil

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|

  F#dimF#dim

  war.                    I'm going to

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-0h1---------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|

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Chorus:

  G+G

  Graceland, Graceland, in Memphis, Tennessee. I'm going to

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  Graceland.

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  Poor boys and pilgrims with families and we are going to

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  Graceland.            And my  travelling

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

Verse 2:

  G+G

  companion is nine years old and he's the child of my

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  first marriage.        And I have reason to

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  believe we  all will be recieved in  Graceland.

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

Verse 3:

*almost the same as Verse 1*

  G+G

                    She comes back and

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G

  tell me she's gone.                 As

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  C majorC (four bars this time)

  if I didn't know that,  as if I didn't know my own

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-1-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|
E MajorE|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|

  E minorEm

  bed.                         As

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|

  F#dimF#dim

  if I didn't notice he way she brushed her hair from her

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-0h1---------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|

  G+G

  forehead.                    She says

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

Prechorus:

  G+G

  loooo-------sing      love is just a window in your

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  C majorC (three bars this time)

  heart.         Everybody sees you

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-1-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|
E MajorE|-------------|-------------|-------------|

  E minorEm

  blown apart.             Everybody sees the

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|

  F#dimF#dim

  wind blow.         Wo----o----o----oah and

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-0h1---------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|

Chorus:

*repeat chorus fingerpicking using G+G shape*

Graceland, I'm going to Graceland.

And my travelling companion is ghosts and empty sockets.

I'm looking at ghosts and empties and

For reasons I cannot explain

There's some part of me wants to see Graceland.

Verse 4:


 G+G

           There's a girl in N.Y. City, well she

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  G+G              C majorC

  calls herself the human trampoline       And when-

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-1-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-------------|-------------|

  E minorEm

  ever I'm falling, flying,  tumbling in  turmoil I say

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|-0-----0-----|

  F#dimF#dim

  oh so this is what she means.  She means we're bouncing into

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-0h1---------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|


Chorus:

  G+G

  Graceland.                    She says

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

Prechorus:

  G+G

  loooo-------sing      love is just a window in your

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|

  C majorC (three bars again)

  heart.         Everybody sees you

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-1-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|-3-----3-----|
E MajorE|-------------|-------------|-------------|

  E minorEm

  blown apart.             Everybody sees the

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|---------0---|
D MajorD|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|----2------2-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|-0-----------|

  F#dimF#dim

  wind blowin'.         Wo----o----o----oah and

e|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
BB|-1-----------|-0-----------|-0h1---------|-0-----------|
G+G|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|---------2---|
D MajorD|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|----0------0-|
A augmentedA|-------------|-------------|-------------|-------------|
E MajorE|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|-2-----2-----|


Chorus:

*repeat chorus fingerpicking using G+G shape*

Graceland, I'm going to Graceland.

I may be obliged to defend every love and every ending.

Maybe there is no obligations now.

For reasons I cannot explain

There's some part of me wants to see Graceland.

I'm going to Graceland

I'm going to Graceland

I'm going to Graceland

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| h  hammer-on

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