Tunica Motel Tony Joe White
Fellow strummers... this song is sick
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Chords
[F#/Gbm] [244222]
[F#/Gbm7]Badd9 [242222]x24422
E7 020100
B7 x21202
D7 xx0212
Riff 1
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Riff 2
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Intro
Riff1 x2
[F#/Gbm]Monday looked like a downer[F#/Gbm7]
[F#/Gbm]Tuesday looked like rain[Badd9]
A bad altitude[E7]
And I knew I n[B7]eeded a change
Riff 1
[F#/Gbm]Head out on the highway[F#/Gbm7]
[F#/Gbm]Cruising way down south[Badd9]
I kn[E7]ew a little place
B7 Riff 1
Where I might could work it all out
D7 B7 Riff 1
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
D7 B7 Riff1
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
[F#/Gbm]Just outside of Memphis,[F#/Gbm7]
[F#/Gbm]Highway 61[Badd9]
[E7]Sleepy little town d[B7]own by the
Riff 1
Mississippi River
I'm gonna l[F#]ay out on a houseboat[F#/Gbm7]
[F#/Gbm]Until my hide turns brown[Badd9]
[E7]Ain't gonna move 'till the
B7 Riff 1
Evening sun goes down
D7 Riff 1
Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
Anyt[D7]hing you need at the T[B7]unica Motel
Riff2 x5
Riff1
I [F#/Gbm]find myself at midnight[F#/Gbm7]
[F#/Gbm]Moving to the back porch blues[Badd9]
The [E7]guitar cries,[B7] telling me
Riff 1
About the hard times
[F#/Gbm]Something moves in the shadow[F#/Gbm7]s
[F#/Gbm]Giving me a little ch[Badd9]ill
I thought I s[E7]aw Robert Johnson
B7 Riff 1
Walking out across the field
D7 B7 Riff 1
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale
D7 B7 Riff2
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel
Riff2 fade to end
"The best things in life aren't things"
-John Butler Trio
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