Just South of Heaven
By: Blake Shelton
Chorded by: Jeff Martin
NOTES: I included some riffs just incase you want to add in some fill.
Using a percussive type finger picking will work best.
(This is NOT a tab)
Intro Riff (Guitar 1 plays with the slides, Guitar 2 picks the notes)
|-0-0-0---------------:||
|--2-2-2--------------:||
|------------2/6/4/2--:||
|---------2h4---------:||
|-------(0)-----------:||
|---------------------:|| X2
Intro Chords
A - E - F#m - Dsus2
A - E - F#m - Dsus2
Verse
A E F#m Dsus2
I never liked the taste of whiskey til I kissed it off of her lips
A E F#m Dsus2
Never knew just what was hitting me, getting me tipsy
RIFF I
But there I sit,
A E RIFF II
Levi's on a dogwood branch
F#m Dsus2 RIFF I
Yeah, she was taking me under
A E RIFF II
I might have lost my innocence
F#m Dsus2 RIFF I
But she was saving my soul that summer
Chorus
A E
I don't know much about eternity
F#m Dsus2
Or where somebody like me's gonna wind up going
A E
All I know is that I have already been
F#m Dsus2 RIFF I
Parked in a Chevy by the deep river rolling
A E
And that summer night, shooting star paradise
F#m Dsus2
Might be all that I'm getting
A E
Kissing and sipping that 7 and 7
Dsus2
Somewhere just south of heaven
INTRO RIFF X2
or A - E - F#m - Dsus2 X2
Vers 2
A E
She might have been a falling angel
F#m Dsus2 RIFF III
Nah, I didn't care at all
A E
I never thought a prayer could be answered
F#m Dsus2
With a whispered, sweet southern drawl
A E
Even now when I close my eyes
F#m Dsus2
I see her silhouette dance on the river
A E
The way we spent those endless nights
Dsus2
That's the way I could spend forever
Chorus
A E
I don't know much about eternity
F#m Dsus2
Or where somebody like me's gonna wind up going
A E
All I know is that I have already been
F#m Dsus2 RIFF I
Parked in a Chevy by the deep river rolling
A E
And that summer night, shooting star paradise
F#m Dsus2
Might be all that I'm getting
A E
Kissing and sipping that 7 and 7
Dsus2
Somewhere just south of heaven
A - E - F#m - Dsus2 X2
Bridge
A E
Somewhere just beyond the Jericho line
Dsus2
Little white church, roll back through the pines
A E
Down where the three cross river unwinds
Dsus2 D
If there's a heaven on Earth, man that'd be mine
Chorus
A E
I don't know much about eternity
F#m Dsus2
Or where somebody like me's gonna wind up going
A E
All I know is that I have already been
D
Parked in a Chevy by the deep river rolling
A E
And that summer night, shooting star paradise
F#m Dsus2
Might be all that I'm getting
A E
Kissing and sipping that 7 and 7
Dsus2
Somewhere just south of heaven
INTRO RIFF or
A - E
F#m Dsus2
Oh yeah, just south of heaven
INTRO RIFF or
A - E - F#m - Dsus2
A E
Somewhere just beyond the Jericho line
F#m Dsus2
Little white church, roll back through the pines
A E
Down where the three cross river unwinds
F#m Dsus2 A E
If there's a heaven on Earth, man that'd be mine
F#m Dsus2 A E
yeah, that's be mine
F#m Dsus2
Oh, just a little bit south of heaven
INTRO RIFF or
A - E - F#m - Dsus2
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These riffs can be played many different ways. I tried to keep them simple for one
guitar and singer
|------|
|------|
|------|
|------|
|----2-|
|-0h2--| RIFF I
|------|
|------|
|------|
|------|
|-0h2--|
|----2-| RIFF II
|--------| |------0--|
|--------| |-------2-|
|-----2--| |---------|
|----0-4-| |----0----|
|-0h2----| or |-0h2-----| RIFF III (I prefer the second version)
