Tune Down half step: Eb Ab Db Gb Bb Eb
Intro: (Bass plays E throughout)
|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----9-9--7------------------------7/9-9-------||--/9--------8-7--------------------7/9-9-------||----------------7------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------|
|-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------||-----------------------------7-8-7p5-----------||------5-7-7-----------------------------7-7----||---5b------------------------------------------|
Verse:
E
Mississippi in the middle of a dry spell;
E
Jimmy Rodgers on the Victrola up high.
|-------------||-------------||--(/9)-------||-------8-7---||-------------||-------------|
E
Mama's dancin' baby on her shoulders,
E
The sun is settin' like molasses in the sky.
Pre-Chorus:
|-----------0-----------------------0-----------------------0~-------------0~----||--------4-----4-----------------2-----2-----------------3--------------3--------||-----4-----------4-----------2-----------2-----------0--------------2-----------||--4-----------------4~----2-----------------2~----0--------------0--------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
B A G D
The boy could soon know how to move everything, Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for.
Chorus:
A D
Black Velvet in that little boy's smile.
A F C
Black velvet in with that slow southern style.
A D
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees,
F E
Black velvet, if you please.
|-------------||-------------||--7----------||-------------||-------5-7---||-------------|
Verse:
E
Up in Memphis the music's like a heat wave,
|--7b---||--8b---||-------||-------||-------||-------|
E
White lightening, bound to drive you wild.
|----------||----------||--9\7p0---||--9\7p0---||----------||----------|
E
Mama's baby's in the heart of every school girl,
E
Love me tender leaves 'em cryin' in the aisles.
Pre-Chorus:
|-----------0-----------------------0-----------------------0~-------------0~---||--------4-----4-----------------2-----2-----------------3--------------3-------||-----4-----------4-----------2-----------2-----------0--------------2----------||--4-----------------4~----2-----------------2~----0--------------0-------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|B A G DThe way he moved it was a sin so sweet and true, Always wanting more, he'd leave you longing for.
Chorus:
A D
Black Velvet in that little boy's smile.
A F C
Black velvet in with that slow southern style.
A D
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees,
F E
Black velvet, if you please.
Solo:|----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------8-------------8---------------------||--7h9-9b------9p7-------p9--9b--------9-7----7------------||------------------9-----------------------9b---9--/7b~----||----------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------|
A B E
Every word of every song that he sang was for you.
|-------10-10-----------------10-12-10----------------------------||--8/10--------10\8-8-8--8h10----------12\10-8--10/12-8--8h10b~---||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------|
A F
In a flash he was gone, it happened so soon.
E
What could you do-?
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||--10h12p10p8----------------------8b\~--------10h12p10p8--------------------------------------||-------------9b--9-7-7h9--9-7-7h9------------------------9b--9-7-----7--------------------7---||-----------------------------------------------------------------/9----7b--5-7/9-5----5-7-----||-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------7----------||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|------12-----12--------------------------------------17b\15-----------------------------------||--15b----15b----15/17b----17p15----12/15-15-15-17-15---------17-15-----------------10b-12\----||-------------------------------p16---------------------------------14b\12----9--12-----12\----||--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(12\)---||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|-------------------------------12-12--15/17\15p12--15/17~---||-------10h12p10p8-----9/12-12-------------------------------||--9-12------------9b----------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------||------------------------------------------------------------|
Chorus:
A D
Black Velvet in that little boy's smile.
A F C
Black velvet in with that slow southern style.
|------------------||------------------||--/9-7------------||--------10b-7b~---||------------------||------------------|
A D
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees,
F E
Black velvet, if you please.
|------12-----12-----12-----12--------------||--15b----15b----15b----15b----15-15/17b~---||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------||-------------------------------------------|
A D
Black Velvet in that little boy's smile.
A F C
Black velvet in with that slow southern style.
|-------------------------||--15/17--15/17p15--------||------------------14b~---||-------------------------||-------------------------||-------------------------|
A D
A new religion that'll bring you to your knees,
F E
Black velvet, if you please.
Outro: (Bass plays E throughout)
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||----------------------------------------------------------------11b----||-----------------------------------------------7/9\7-------------------||--/7-5----5-------------------5---5------------7/9\7-------------------||-------7----7-5------------/7---7--------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
|--17b------------------------------------------------------------------||--17b-----------------------------4h5p4h5p4h5--------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------||---------------------2-------------------------------------------------||-----------------5b--------------------------------------5b------------|
|-----------------------------------------------------------------------||----------8b-----------------------------------------------------------||-----9--------7-9------------9\7-0-------------------------------------||--/9---9---------------------9\7-0-------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------||-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
