Chords with lyrics
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 E minorEm for a cool transition.
Tabbed-Out Chords:
E minorEm G+G C majorC
(Em-shape-power-3) (A-shape-power-3)
Eb MajorEb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
Bb majorBb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
GbGb|--0-----------0-------------------5----------|
DbDb|--2-----------5-------------------5----------|
AbAb|--2-----------5-------------------3----------|
Eb MajorEb|--0-----------3-------------------x----------|
E minorEm
Truckstop butterfly
G+G
Covered in gasoline
E minorEm
Truckstop butterfly
G+G
Kiss you till you're clean
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Me and a man with a mohawk on his head
C majorC G+G E minorEm E minorEm
Found a dirty butterfly half dead
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Rainbow of shiny oil slick and stuck on wing
C majorC G+G E minorEm E minorEm
Helpless in a puddle muddy thing
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Seven-eleven, cherry soda and a pie
C majorC G+G
30-ton steel grey butt and the
C majorC G+G
sky is dark and dripping though we
C majorC G+G
stop and wonder why
C majorC G+G E minorEm E minorEm
You're running late but what a great alibi
E minorEm
Truckstop butterfly
G+G
Covered in gasoline
E minorEm
Truckstop butterfly
G+G
Kiss you till you're clean
(get gone!)
[Instrumental / Harmonica solo]
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
C majorC G+G E minorEm
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
C majorC G+G E minorEm
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Far out east in deserts there's a vein of inky gold
C majorC G+G E minorEm
Here out west you wear it like a coat
C majorC G+G C majorC G+G
Me and the man with a mohawk watch you go
C majorC G+G E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm E minorEm
Follow sun and leave the melting snow
C majorC G+G
Man, how I miss you
C majorC G+G
Truckstop butterfly
C majorC G+G
Fly so I can't see you
C majorC G+G
Truckstop butterfly
C majorC G+G
I hope you made it,
C majorC G+G
and you didn't die
C majorC G+G
Still, I do miss you
C majorC G+G
Truckstop butterfly
C majorC G+G
Truckstop butterfly
C majorC G+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