Tunica Motel
Tony Joe White
[intro]
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[Chords]
[verse 1]
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Monday looked like a downer
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Tuesday looked like rain
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A bad altitude
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And I knew I needed a change
[Verse 2]
F#m F#m7
Head out on the highway
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Cruising way down south
E
I knew a little place
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Where we might could work it all out
[Chorus 1]
D5 E F#m
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
B5 E F#m
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
[Verse 3]
F#m F#m7
Just outside of Memphis,
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Highway 61
E B7
Sleepy little town down by the
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Mississippi River
[Verse 4]
F#m F#m7
I'm gonna lay out on a houseboat
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Until my hide turns brown
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Ain't gonna move 'till the
B7 F#m
Evening sun goes down
[Chorus 2]
D5 E F#m
Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
B5 E F#m
Anything you need at the Tunica Motel
[Verse 5]
F#m F#m7
I find myself at midnight
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Moving to the back porch blues
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The guitar cries, telling me
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About the hard times
[verse 6]
F#m F#m7
Something moves in the shadows
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Giving me a little chill
E
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
B7 F#m
Walking out across the field
[chorus 3]
D5 E F#m
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale
B5 E F#m
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel
