Eyolf Østrem

E

E
They ask me how I feel

And if my love is real
                    A       E
And how I know I'll make it through.
    E
And they, they look at me and frown,
                                  D
They'd like to drive me from this town,
                    A
They don't want me around
           E
'Cause I believe in you.

They show me to the door,
They say don't come back no more
'Cause I don't be like they'd like me to,
And I walk out on my own
A thousand miles from home
But I don't feel alone
'Cause I believe in you.

            E7                        A7 E7
Don't wanna judge nobody, don't wanna be judged,
            E7                        A7 E7
Don't wanna touch nobody, don't wanna be touched.
            E7                       A7 E7
Don't wanna hurt nobody, don't wanna be hurt,
            E7                     A7  E7
Don't wanna treat nobody like they was dirt.

           G       A7      E7
But if you do right to me, baby,
     G        A7      E7
I'll do right to you, too.
          G   A7  E7
Ya got to do unto others

Album version

There isn’t really much of a chord structure here, just a 12-bar blues riff. The tab is just a suggestion it could be played elsewhere and in other octaves and so is the chords in parenthesis.

Album version

|:C . . .F|F . . . :|

          C                   F
There's a long-distance train rolling through the rain,
C                     F
tears on the letter I write.
          C                             F
There's a woman I long to touch and I'm missing her so much
          C                    F
but she's drifting like a satellite.
          C                         F
There's a neon light ablaze in this green smoky haze,
C                          F
laughter down on Elizabeth Street
      C                          F
And a lonesome bell tone in that valley of stone

 

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Intro:

1st guitar riff:

  Dsus2-D    D-Dsus4
  :   .   .   .
|-0h2-------2h3---|
|-3---------------|
|-2---------------|repeat
|-0---------------|
|-----------------|
|-----------------|

2nd guitar riff:

|: A . D/a .  :|

            A  C#m                     Bm
I'm getting weary looking in my baby's eyes
           A    C#m                      Bm
When she's near me she's so hard to recognize.
      C#m        Bm              A          D
But I finally realize there's no room for regret,
A    D     A    D     A    D    E11         A         E
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

Hold me, baby be near,
You told me that you'd be sincere.
Every day of the year's like playin' Russian roulette,
True love, true love, true love tends to forget.

   D               A           E           A
In death, you face life with a child and a wife
    E/a                      A           D        E
Who sleep-walks through your dreams into walls.
         D          A             E            A
You're a soldier of mercy, you're cold and you curse,
        E         A            D        E
"He who cannot be trusted must fall."

D/a   A     A/e   E          D/a   A  A/e    E
Loneliness, tenderness, high society, notoriety.
    D             A              E      A

 

One verse instrumental intro