Chords with lyrics
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Back to New Orleans - Old Crow Medicine Show
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Tuning: Standard
A: X02220
C#m/A: X06654
D: XX0232
Dm: XX0231
C#m: X46654
E: 022100
G: 320033
Intro:
A augmentedA C#m/A D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
Verse:
A augmentedA C#m/A
Pardon me sir, you got a dime?
D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans.
A augmentedA C#m/A
Broke down and fallen on hard times,
D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
I need just one kind favor to get back on my feet.
Chorus:
C# minorC#m D MajorD A augmentedA
Lost my ticket for a Greyhound bus,
D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
when it left me in the dust and gone away.
C# minorC#m D MajorD A augmentedA D MajorD A augmentedA E MajorE
Man at the station says, "Boy get lost, start going your own way."
A augmentedA C#m/A D MajorD
Im walking 40 days and nights under the Texas sun,
DmDm A augmentedA
won't someone help me please?
A augmentedA C#m/A
Pardon me sir, you got a dime?
D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
I'm trying to find my way back to New Orleans.
A augmentedA C#m/A D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
Verse:
I did my time in Baton Rouge, in Birmingham and Huston, too,
but all I ever see
Was weary faces just like mine, waiting in endless lines,
just'a trying to find a seat.
Chorus:
Lost their tickets for a Greyhound bus,
when it left them in the dust and gone away.
Now all they're asking is for you to help their cause,
'cause they're going a long way.
They're walking 40 days and nights under the Texas sun,
won't someone help them please?
Spare just a dollar or a dime,
they're trying to find their way back to New Orleans.
Harmonica Solo:
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
G+G D MajorD E MajorE
Verse:
We're walking 40 days and nights and only just begun
to reach our destiny.
Still got a long hill left to climb,
come on let's find our way back to New Orleans.
Outro:
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
Come on let's find our way.
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
Come on and find our way.
G+G D MajorD A augmentedA
Come on let's find our way.
G+G D MajorD E MajorE
A augmentedA C#m/A D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
A majorA C#m/A D MajorD DmDm A augmentedA
A~
The little fills you hear off of the A augmentedA and E MajorE chords:
e|---0--0-----------0---|---0--0--------0------------------------------------|
BB|---2-----(2)----3-----|---0-----0-------3----------------------------------|
G+G|---2--------2---------|---1-------1----------------------------------------|
D MajorD|---2------------------|---2------------------------------------------------|
A augmentedA|---0------------------|---2------------------------------------------------|
E MajorE|----------------------|---0------------------------------------------------|