GUITAR TOWN
Steve Earle

TUNING: D A D G B E (Drop D - String 6/E lowered one whole step)

INTRO:
  G              (x4)          C* RIFF
e|-------3---------3--|      e|----------------------------------|
B|-------3---------3--|      B|----------------------------------|
G|-------0---0-0---0--|      G|----------------------------------|
D|-------0---0-0---0--|      D|----------------------------------|
A|--------------------|      A|--2h3-3-3-2h3-3-3-2h3-3-3--3-2-0--|
D|--4h5--5---5-5---5--|      D|----------------------------------|

VERSE 1:
G                                                                            C         C  G/B  
Hey pretty baby are you ready for me? It's your good rockin' daddy down from Tennessee
D                                                   C                                 C*
I'm just outta Austin bound for San Antone with the radio blastin' and the Bird Dog on
G                                                         C           C  G/B 
Speed trap up ahead Selma town but no local yokel's gonna shut me down
D                                                   C                                     G*
Cause me and my boys got this rig unwound and we've come a thousand miles from the guitar town

INTERLUDE / G* RIFF:
 G                 |C              |D             |C           G    |
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------0-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------2--0---2---3-----------3-2-0---------------3-2-0-----------|
D|--5--5------5-----------0-2-5-------0-0---0-1-2-5-------5-4---5---|

VERSE 2:
G                                                                     C           C  G/B
Nothin' ever happened round my home town and I ain't the kind to just hang around
D                                            C                                     G
I heard someone callin' my name one day so I followed that voice down the lost highway
G                                                C         C  G/B
Everybody told me you can't get far on $37 and a Jap guitar
D                                                    C                                    G*
Now I'm smokin into Texas with the hammer down and a rockin' little combo from the guitar town

[INTERLUDE]

BRIDGE:
D
Hey pretty baby don't you know it ain't my fault
C                            G
Love to hear the steel belts hummin on the asphalt
D
Wake up in the middle of the night in a truck stop
C                          D7
Stumble in the restaurant, wonderin' why I don't stop

VERSE 3:
        G                                                              C         C   G/B
Well, I gotta keep rockin while I still can got a two-pack habit and a motel tan
D                                                       C                              C*
When my boots hit the boards I'm a brand new man put my back to the risers and make my stand
G                                                                          C            C  G/B
Hey pretty baby won't you hold me tight, I'm loadin' up and rollin' out of here tonight
D                                                C                                   G*
One of these days I'm gonna settle down and I'll take you back with me to the guitar town

OUTRO: 
   G               |C              |D             |C                |
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------0-------------------------------------------------|
A|-------2--0---2---3-----------3-2-0---------------3-2-0-----------|
D|--5--5------5-----------0-2-5-------0-0---0-1-2-5-------5-4-------|
   G               |C              |D             |C           G    |
e|------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----------------0-2-------------0---------------------------------|
A|-------2--0---2---------------3---0---------------3-2-0-----------|
D|--5--5------5-----------0-2-5-------0-0---0-1-2-5-------5-7br-5---|

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