Author/Artist: Cowboy Mouth
Title: New Orleans
Album: Are You With Me?
Transcribed by: Brian Beglin
Email: jayhawk_182@hotmail.com
This is a fantastic song, easy to play, too. Anyway...
***CAPO 1st FRET***
Chords Used:
G Cadd9 Em7 D Dsus2 Am C Asus2 F --3--3-----3---2--0-----0--0--0-----1-- --3--3-----3---3--3-----1--1--0-----1-- --0--0-----0---2--2-----2--0--2-----2-- --0--2-----2---0--0-----2--2--2-----3-- --2--3-----2---x--x-----0--3--0-----3-- --3--x-----0---x--x-----x--x--x-----1--
This is the small riff that's played right before the chorus.
Riff 1:
e|--------------0-- B|--------------0-- G|--------------0-- D|--------------2-- A|--------------2-- E|--3--5--3--2--0--
VERSE 1:
G Cadd9 G
The Texas sun beats down upon me like the Devil's smile.
G Cadd9 G
I'd rather be anywhere else than here.
G Cadd9
Was it a blinding lack of subtlety
G
Or just a lack of style
G Cadd9 G Riff 1
Responding to the ways and means of fear?
CHORUS:
Em7 G
Take me back to New Orleans
Cadd9 D
And drop me at my door.
Am C
'Cause I might love you, yeah,
G
But I love me more.
VERSE 2:
G Cadd9 G
My fingertips are bitten 'til there's nothing left but skin.
G Cadd9 G
I'd rather be anyone else right now.
G Cadd9
The light that shone within my eyes
G
Is slowly growing dim.
G Cadd9 G Riff 1
She told me where, told me when, but never said how.
CHORUS:
Em7 G
Take me back to New Orleans
Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
And don't call me anymore.
Am Asus2 Am C
'Cause I might love you, yeah,
G
But I love me more.
BRIDGE:
Cadd9
(She said) How can I make this unhappen?
G Em7
(I said) You cannot make this unhappen.
D Dsus2 D G
Choose before your choices fade away.
Cadd9
(She said) I could be home by tomorrow
G Em7
(She said) If I could beg, steal, or borrow.
Am C
I said you're there, you might as well stay.
VERSE 3:
G Cadd9 G
The morning mist arises through another crack in the glass.
G Cadd9 G
The lack of sleep has made me numb.
G Cadd9
But sometimes when she sleeps
G
She'll turn and she'll whisper his name.
G Cadd9 G Riff 1
That cake must taste great but I'll pass when you offer me some.
CHORUS:
Em7 G
Take me back to New Orleans
Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
And drop me at my door.
Am C
'Cause I might love you, yeah,
G Riff 1
But I love me more.
END CHORUS:
Em7 G
Take me back to New Orleans
Cadd9 D Dsus2 D
And don't call me anymore.
Am C
'Cause I might love you, yeah.
Am Cadd9
I might love you, yeah.
Am C
I might love you, yeah,
G
But I love me more.
F G
I love me more.
F G F G End on G
I love me more.
