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Louisiana Lowdown And Blue

Paul Sanchez

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From: Pete Rasche 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD:"Louisiana Lowdown and Blue" by Paul Sanchez

>"Louisiana Lowdown and Blue"  by Paul Sanchez
>from "Jet Black and Jealous"
>
>RIFF (used throughout song): D# D#   C# C# C# C#    D# D#   C# C# C# D#
>
>The filler notes (FILL) are just a little "tickling" of the first
>two strings (e and B) held at the 8th fret.
>
>VERSES:
>   D#                FILL
>My eyelids said four-thirty
>        D#               FILL
>and the radio clock said six
>          G#            A#           RIFF
>and I was thinking up a reasonable excuse
>  D#                       FILL
>I might have slept through yesterday
>    D#               FILL
>but in the shape I'm in
>       G#                A#              RIFF
>what's twenty-four hours more or less to lose
>
>CHORUS:
>Gm                        Cm
>I burned up letters and I burned up souvenirs
>Gm                     Cm
>Leaving no traces that I was ever here
>    D#      G#    A#                 RIFF
>And I won't be Louisiana lowdown and blue
>
>BRIDGE:
>  A#                           D#
>I saw a stranger smiling at me yesterday
>A#                              D#
>And it scared me almost half to death
>A#                                D#
>I wanted to hide I wanted to run away from them
>A#                                           RIFF
>Instead I closed my eyes and I wasn't there