Kathy Mattea (born Kathleen Alice Mattea on 21 June 1959) is an American country music and bluegrass singer. Active since 1984 as a recording artist, she has charted more than 30 singles on the US Billboard Hot Country Songs charts, including four that reached No. 1 ("Goin' Gone", "Eighteen Wheels and a Dozen Roses", "Come from the Heart", and "Burnin' Old Memories") plus 12 more that charted within the top ten. She is a two-time Grammy Award winner: in 1990 for "Where've You Been", and in 1993 for her Christmas album "Good News".
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IF YOU WANT TO PLAY CHORDS ONLY: DGD / / // ////// Timing is everything on the INTRO. Hit the D chord ONCE. Then hit the G chord hard once and then strum it twice and then strum the D chord 6 times and repeat.
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DGD E ----3--3-3-3-2---3-2---- B ----0--0-0-----3-----3-- G ----0------------------- D --0--------------------- A ------------------------ E ------------------------
VERSE: GD When everything you own GD Will fit in a paper sack GD And no one notice you leavin' GD Nobody ask you when you comin' back
VERSE: GD You live in a rented room GD Your money run out too soon G You've pawned all your hopes D Bummed all your smokes GD And you leave by the quarter moon
CHORUS: FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmD When you travel the night road FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmDDGD When you carry a light load
VERSE: GD And every bowery bum GD You know was somebody's mothers son GD He never mean to hurt nobody GD Just a-drinkin' to have his fun
VERSE: GD Drinkin' away the good times GD Drinkin' away the bad GD And nobody know where a poor man go GD When he lose everything that he had
CHORUS: FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmD When you travel the night road FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmDDGD When you carry a light load
BREAK: Am7Em7 Every man in the mission tonight D Is dreamin' whiskey shadows AmCEm Where heaven is lined with bottles of wine DDAm7CDGDDGD And deep sparkling meadooooooows
VERSE: GD When everything you own GD Will fit in a paper sack GD No one notice you leavin' GD Nobody ask you when you comin' back baby
VERSE: GD You live in a rented room GD Your money run out too soon G You've pawned all your hopes D Bummed all your smokes GD And you leave by the quarter moon
CHORUS: FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmD When you travel the night road FEm Quarter moon better than none GDmD When you carry a light load
OUTRO: FEm Quarter moon better than none DmEmAm Quarter moon better than nooooooone FEm7 Quarter moon better than none Fmaj7DmDGDDGDAm7CD7D When you travel the night road