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Purple Shadows by Seasick Steve

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Okay so I gave this a listen the other day and loads of people requested the tab and
chords. I couldn't find any lyrics so I also had to try and work them out any corrections
are appreciated!

There are various hammer ons in the song most of which I will cover but the song is
fairly straight forward listen and play along to the song to get the right timing you should
pick it up quite easily.

The chords you will need to know are Chord diagramC majorC major, Chord diagramG+G major, Chord diagramE MajorE minor Chord diagramA augmentedA minor,    Chord diagramFF major

I don't know the intro but the part before he plays Chord diagramC majorC is

Fig 1

E---------------------|
B---------------------|
G---------------------|
D---------------------|
A-----------0-----2---|
E-----3---------------|

then you play Chord diagramC majorC and he hammers the 2nd fret Chord diagramD MajorD string and then plays the open Chord diagramG+G like this:

E--------0--------------|
B--------1--------------|
G--------0---------0----|
D--------2---0h2--------|
A----3---3--------------|
E--------x--------------|

Then the song essentially goes like this:

Fig1     Chord diagramC majorC
Them purple shadows fall across

Chord diagramE minorEm
And they soften everything they touch

Chord diagramFF     Chord diagramG+G    Chord diagramA minorAm   Chord diagramG+G
And they give me-e a place to hide

Fig1  Chord diagramC majorC
And the moonlight all around

Chord diagramE minorEm
Surely going to wash these troubles down

Chord diagramFF       Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramA minorAm   Chord diagramG+G
And cool the awful burning-ness of love

Chord diagramFF
Talkin bout the burning-ness

Chord diagramG+G          Chord diagramA minorAm
Yeah the burning-ness, oh the burning-ness

Chord diagramFF
Yeah the burning-ness

Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramG+G
We will cool down the awful burning-ness of love

Then it's just the same for the rest of the song apart from the very last part where he
swaps the Chord diagramC majorC for an Chord diagramE MajorE minor then goes back to how it's played in the rest like this:

Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramE minorEm  Chord diagramFF
We will cool down the awful burning-ness of love ooooh ooooh

Chord diagramG+G        Chord diagramC majorC    Chord diagramG+G
We will cool down the awful burning-ness of love

Here are the rest of the lyrics:

I hear your echo on the run
And them tears will start to come
They will dry me u-up and I'll simply blow away

But while I'm blowin in the wind
Surely gonna feel again your soft skin
And remember-er the awful burning-ness of love
Talkin bout the burning-ness
Yeah the burning-ness, oh the burning-ness
Yeah the burning-ness
We will cool down the awful burning-ness of love

And the moonlight all around
Surely going to wash these troubles down
And cool the awful burning-ness of love
Talkin bout the burning-ness
Yeah the burning-ness, oh the burning-ness
Yeah the burning-ness
We will cool down the awful burning-ness of love

Enjoy!
Tab by Samstrat94

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