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Straighten Out
Guess Who
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Song: Straighten Out (Cummings, Wallace)
Artist: The Guess Who
Album: Road Food
Tabber: Nick Gray
Email: ngray8725@yahoo.ca
Tuning: Standard
One very simple song with a couple of interesting jazz chords. The song has a great
jazz feel to it. My favorite from
the Road Food album. The chords are complimenting the piano. Lyrics from
http://www.ghg.net/bnsteiss/lyrics/lyricsmain.html
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Piano Intro (0:00-0:04) Guitar starts at 0:05 seconds.
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
Well you asked me to be your escort baby
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
On Graduation Day
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
Wrote me a note and here's what you wrote
E7 D#7 D7
You cried boo hoo hoo
And your tears were killin' me babe
E7 D#7 D7
Wah wah wah.
E7 E7 F7 F7 F#7 F#7 F7 F7
I think you better straighten out
E7 E7 F7 F7 F#7 F#7 F7 F7
Gimme a break
E7 E7 F7 F7 F#7 F#7 F7 F7 E7
Straighten out ... if you can
E7 F7 F#7 F7
I heard you knockin' but you couldn't come in
E7 F7 F#7 F7
And we went walkin' down the road to the bin
E7 D#7 D7
That was when you were ten, now is now, then was then
E7 D#7 D7
Ha ha ha.
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
Well I telephoned you and I asked if I might just happen to be your chaperone
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
To the Highbridge comin'-out do
E7 E7 Am7 Am7
You said goodbye and I began to cry
E7 D#7 D7
I said boo hoo hoo
'Cause your leavin' was shakin' me up
E7 D#7 D7
Wah wah wah.
E7 E7 F7 F7 F#7 F#7 F7 F7
I think you better straighten out.
Gimme a break
E7 E7 F7 F7 F#7 F#7 F7 F7 E7
Straighten out ... if you can
E7 F7 F#7 F7
I heard you knockin' but you couldn't come in
E7 F7 F#7 F7
And we went walkin' down the road to the bin
E7 D#7 D7
That was when you were ten, now is now, then was then
E7 D#7 D7
Ha ha ha.
The Laughters shakin me up
Bo Whoo Whooin
E7 D#7 D7
Wa Wa Wa
Everybody Cryin' Cryin'
E7 D#7 D7
Ha ha ha
E7 D#7 D7
Boo who who
And The Cryins Killing me
E7 D#7 D7
Wa Wa Wa
And The laughter killin me
E7 D#7 D7
Ha ha ha