Standing At A Big Hotel by Joe Ely, tabs and chords at PlayUkuleleNET

Standing At A Big Hotel

Biography:

Joe Ely (born February 9, 1947) is an Austin, Texas, honky-tonk/country musician. Ely, born in Amarillo, spent his formative years from age 12 in Lubbock, Texas.

Shortly after high school, in 1970, with fellow Lubbock musicians Jimmie Dale Gilmore and Butch Hancock, he formed The Flatlanders. According to Ely, "Jimmie was like a well of country music. He knew everything about it. And Butch was from the folk world. I was kinda the rock & roll guy, and we almost had a triad.

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[Verse]
D F7sus4 D
I was standing at a big hotel,
G
Wishing everybody well,
D A A7
But if anybody paid me any mind it was hard to tell,
D F7sus4 D
A big policeman on his beat,
G D
Pulled his pistol and he pointed at me, looking down the barrel,
A7
I could see the gates of hell,
D
I was Standing At A Big Hotel.

D F7sus4 D
So i went walking down the avenue,
G
Looking for someone that looked like you,
D A A7
But I never saw a face that seemed to ring a bell,
D F7sus4 D
I stopped beside the five and dime,
G
Just window-shopping & wasting time,
D A A7
When along came a gal who sold me all she had to sell,
D
She left me Standing At A Big Hotel.

[Chorus]
A D
I lost my mind in the wilds of Hollywood,
A7 D
I did some time in the shadows where I stood,
A A7 D
I let the cards fall where they fell...
A D
And I found myself Standing At A Big Hotel.

[Verse]
D F7sus4 D
A blind lady with her old tin cup,
G
Had her pencils all sharpened up,
D A A7
She was standing in the door just to see what she could sell,
D F7sus4 D
But nobody bought a thing all night,
G
They just thought she was a pitiful sight,
D A A7
Though the lord helps a girl who helps herself,
D
Standing At A Big Hotel.

D F7sus4 D
Well I know what you're thinking today,
G
I can feel it though I'm miles away,
D A A7
Everybody knows I love my southern belle,
D F7sus4 D
But from the east to the wild, wild west,
G
They say a bird in the hand is best,
D A A7
So here I am with a bird dog and a bottle of muscatel,
D
Standing At A Big Hotel.

[Chorus]
A D
I lost my mind in the wilds of Hollywood,
A7 D
I did some time in the shadows where I stood,
A A7 D
I let the cards fall where they fell...
A D F# G7 F#m7
And I found myself Standing At A Big Hotel,
A D
Yeah I found myself Standing At A Big Hotel.