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Tunica Motel

Tony Joe White

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Fellow strummers... this song is sick
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Chords
F#/Gbm    244222
F#/Gbm7   242222
Badd9     x24422
E7        020100
B7        x21202
D7        xx0212


Riff 1
e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----2--4------2---------------------2--2--4------------------------|
A|---------2--4----4s2--0--------------------------------------------|
E|--2----------------------2---0---2---------------------------------|


Riff 2

e|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
B|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
G|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
D|----2--4------2----------------------------------------------------|
A|---------2--4----4s2--0--------------------------------------------|
E|--2----------------------2---0-------------------------------------|

Intro
Riff1 x2

F#/Gbm                      F#/Gbm7
Monday looked like a downer
F#/Gbm                      Badd9
Tuesday looked like rain
               E7
A bad altitude
              B7
And I knew I needed a change
Riff 1

F#/Gbm                   F#/Gbm7
Head out on the highway
F#/Gbm                   Badd9
Cruising way down south
    E7
I knew a little place
    B7                         Riff 1
Where I might could work it all out

D7        B7                        Riff 1
I'm so tired of fighting with myself

        D7                       B7         Riff1
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel


F#/Gbm                  F#/Gbm7  
Just outside of Memphis,
F#/Gbm                    Badd9
Highway 61
E7                  B7
Sleepy little town down by the
                Riff 1
Mississippi River
           F#                     F#/Gbm7
I'm gonna lay out on a houseboat
F#/Gbm                      Badd9
Until my hide turns brown
E7
Ain't gonna move 'till the
B7                 Riff 1
Evening sun goes down
         D7                                      Riff 1
Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
    D7                    B7   
Anything you need at the Tunica Motel
Riff2 x5
Riff1

  F#/Gbm                   F#/Gbm7
I find myself at midnight
F#/Gbm                        Badd9
Moving to the back porch blues
    E7           B7      
The guitar cries, telling me
                  Riff 1
About the hard times

F#/Gbm                       F#/Gbm7
Something moves in the shadows
F#/Gbm               Badd9
Giving me a little chill
             E7
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
B7                       Riff 1
Walking out across the field
             D7             B7                       Riff 1
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale
D7                      B7         Riff2
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel

Riff2 fade to end 

"The best things in life aren't things"
-John Butler Trio

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Tunica Motel

Tony Joe White