Oh Susanna chords by The Mulligan Brothers

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Difficulty: Novice


Verse 1:
    Em                C                G
The city lights light up the skies and sidewalks
      Em           C                G
And I realized the second they came on
Em          C                     G
Surely that must be where all the light goes
Em           D         G
When it gets dark back home

Em          C                 G
All the brunettes in New York City
    Em                C            G
And all the hills and rain in Tennessee
   Em                C            G
We road through them all for what seemed like years
Em                       D       G
But I was thinking about you and me

Chorus 1:
Em  C
Oh Susanna
D                 G
Don't you cry for me
           G       C                        D                G
I'm coming home to Alabama because I've got no place else to be
Em  C
Oh Susanna
     D                G
It's me who cries for you
         G              C              D                   G
Lord I'm coming home to stay and honey you're just passing through


Verse 2:
Em          C                 G
I played my guitar out on the shore line
        Em              C                 G
And the fireworks, they burned our in the bay
   Em             C                 D                       G
We drank til July fifth and then we slept right through the sixth
      Em                D         G
And I thought about you all three days
       Em              C             G
Then I guess I woke up sometime on a Friday
    Em            C                                        G
And realized that drug store wine, it just don't taste the same
            Em                C               G
Without the sweetness of your kiss to end the bottle
            Em                    D              G
But man, it damn sure still works wonders on the pain


Chorus 2:
Em  C
Oh Susanna
D                 G
Don't you cry for me
         G                C               D               G
I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be
Em  C
Oh Susanna
     D                G
It's me who cries for you
            G           C                         D                G
You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do


Instrumental Break:


Verse 3:
     Em                  C               G
Your entrance killed the laughter in the room
       Em                  C           G
And my presence killed the laughter in you
        Em           C
And the cue card guy quit yesterday
       G
You're left without a thing to say
    Em     D       G
You kindly pass on through
                    Em  D  G
That's how I'll see you
                    Em  D  G
That's how I'll see you
           Em                 D           G                          Em  D  G
That's the portrait that I'll paint in my head every time I think of you


Bridge:
              C
It don't take much for me
       G               C                          D
Just a tree line, some cheap wine and a back yard sky
         C            Em               D             A     C
Hovering over me like forgiveness just dangling on a string
                     Em  D  G
It could turn it all around
                  Em  D  G
Let's turn it all around


Chorus 3:
Em  C
Oh Susanna
D                 G
Don't you cry for me
         G                C               D               G
I've got bones beneath my skin to keep me who I've got to be
Em  C
Oh Susanna
     D                G
It's me who cries for you
            G           C                         D                G
You sure do walk away a straight line for all the circles that you do