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Truckstop Butterfly chords by Presidents Of The Usa

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How do you make it sound like the recording :
    Tune all strings a half-step down if you want to match the recording.
    (The hardest part of this song is setting up the tuning.   Otherwise
    it's three pretty standard chords.)  Pretty fun song!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch v=gRUh8OQ4fp8

What chords should I play :
    Sounds great with straight chords or power chords.  Chris seems to
    play Em-shape-power chords all the way up the neck of the guitar
    on frets 8 & 3 (for showmanship? Maybe some guitar gurus can help
    me out here), but you can just play Em-shape-power on fret 3 and
    A-shape-power on fret 3.  (I'm tabbing out the latter.)

Cool transition tip:
    In either case, you can then slide down from Em-shape-power-3 to
    Em-shape-power-2 to Em-shape-power-1 to Chord diagramE minorEm for a cool transition.

Tabbed-Out Chords:
         Chord diagramE minorEm          Chord diagramG+G                   Chord diagramC majorC
             (Em-shape-power-3)  (A-shape-power-3)
    Chord diagramEb MajorEb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
    Chord diagramBb majorBb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
    Chord diagramGbGb|--0-----------0-------------------5----------|
    Chord diagramDbDb|--2-----------5-------------------5----------|
    Chord diagramAbAb|--2-----------5-------------------3----------|
    Chord diagramEb MajorEb|--0-----------3-------------------x----------|
                    Chord diagramE minorEm
    Truckstop butterfly
                   Chord diagramG+G
    Covered in gasoline
                    Chord diagramE minorEm
    Truckstop butterfly
                         Chord diagramG+G
    Kiss you till you're clean

Chord diagramC majorC        Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G
Me and a man with a mohawk on his head
Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramE minorEm             Chord diagramE minorEm
Found a dirty butterfly half dead
Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G         Chord diagramC majorC                  Chord diagramG+G
Rainbow of shiny oil slick and stuck on wing
Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramE minorEm            Chord diagramE minorEm
Helpless in a puddle muddy thing

Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G
   Seven-eleven, cherry soda and a pie
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G
30-ton steel grey butt and the
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
sky is dark and dripping though we
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
stop and wonder why
       Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G            Chord diagramE minorEm         Chord diagramE minorEm
You're running late but what a great alibi

                    Chord diagramE minorEm
    Truckstop butterfly
                   Chord diagramG+G
    Covered in gasoline
                    Chord diagramE minorEm
    Truckstop butterfly
                         Chord diagramG+G
    Kiss you till you're clean
    (get gone!)

[Instrumental / Harmonica solo]
  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G
  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm
  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G
  Chord diagramC majorC  Chord diagramG+G  Chord diagramE minorEm

Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramC majorC             Chord diagramG+G
Far out east in deserts there's a vein of inky gold
Chord diagramC majorC                 Chord diagramG+G              Chord diagramE minorEm
Here out west you wear it like a coat
Chord diagramC majorC            Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramC majorC                Chord diagramG+G
  Me and the man with a mohawk watch you go
Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramG+G                 Chord diagramE minorEm       Chord diagramE minorEm      Chord diagramE minorEm      Chord diagramE minorEm
Follow sun and leave the melting snow

Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G
Man, how I miss you
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Truckstop butterfly
Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramG+G
Fly so I can't see you
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Truckstop butterfly

Chord diagramC majorC          Chord diagramG+G
I hope you made it,
Chord diagramC majorC              Chord diagramG+G
and you didn't die
Chord diagramC majorC           Chord diagramG+G
Still, I do miss you
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Truckstop butterfly

Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Truckstop butterfly
Chord diagramC majorC               Chord diagramG+G
Truckstop butterfly

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Tip: Every once in a while, songs will be a half-step down, which helps with singing sometimes.
If your guitar has good intonation (ie doesn't sound out of tune with a capo on, basically),
you can put a capo on 1 to put your guitar back into standard tuning for some songs, then take
the capo off for these half-step songs to switch quickly during a set.  Don't store your guitar
with the capo on the strings though.  The downside is that the fret markings might throw you
off for a bit while you get used to it.
peace

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