Song: When I'm dead and gone
Artist: McGuinness Flint
Composers: Benny Gallagher & Graham Lyle
Tabbed by DJ
7th Mar 2016
D = xx0232 Gmaj7 = 3x0032 A = x02220
G = 320033 G6 = 3x0030 Bm = x24432
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[Intro]
D G G Gmaj7 G6
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[Verse 1]
D
Oh, I love you baby,
G G Gmaj7 G6
I love you night and day,
D
When I leave you, baby,
G G Gmaj7 G6
Don’t cry the night away,
D
When I die, don't you write...
G G Gmaj7 G6
...No words upon my tomb,
D
I don't believe ...I want to leave...
G G Gmaj7 G6
...No epitaph of doom!
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
G Gmaj7 G6 D A D G A
I wanna leave some happy woman living on,
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
G Gmaj7 G6 D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave----!
[Verse 2]
D
Old Mama Linda,
G G Gmaj7 G6
She's out to get my hide,
D
She's got a shotgun,
G G Gmaj7 G6
And her daughter by her side,
D
Hey, there ladies,
G G Gmaj7 G6
Johnson's free,
D
Who's got the love? Who's got enough...
G G Gmaj7 G6
...To keep a man like me?
[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
G Gmaj7 G6 D A D G A
I wanna leave some happy woman living on,
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
G Gmaj7 G6 D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave----!
[Dobro & Kazoo break]
D G G Gmaj7 G6
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[Chorus]
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
G Gmaj7 G6 D A D G A
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave, hey -ey,
D A Bm G
Woh, hoh - oo, oh, when I'm dead and gone,
(When I'm...
G Gmaj7 G6 D A G D
Don’t want nobody to mourn beside my grave----!
...dead and gone! Don’t want nobody to mourn----!)
[Break]
D G A
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[Coda]
D G A
||: Oo - la, na - na! Hey, ey - ey! :|| [Repeat]
[Suggestion for ending]
D G G Gmaj7 G6 D
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