Dwight Yoakam – Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
1986
Country
Tabbed by James Tucker
TRACKLIST:
1. Honky Tonk Man (J. Hortorn)
2. It Wont Hurt (D. Yoakam)
3. I’ll Be Gone (D. Yoakam)
4. South of Cincinnati (D. Yoakam)
5. Bury Me (feat. Maria McKee) (D.Yoakam)
6. Guitars, Cadillac’s (D. Yoakam)
7. Twenty Years (D. Yoakam)
8. Ring of Fire (J C. Cash)
9. Miner’s Prayer (D. Yoakam)
10. Heartaches By the Number (Traditional)
Track 1 – Honky Tonk Man
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[Chorus:]
E
Well I'm a honky tonk man and I can't seem to stop
A E
I love to give the girls a whirl to the music of an old jukebox
B
But when my money's all gone, I'm on the telephone singing
E E
Hey, hey, mama can your daddy come home
[Verse:]
E B
Now I'm living wild and dangerously
A E
But I've got plenty of company
B
When the moon comes up and the sun goes down
A E
I can't wait to see the lights of town
[Chorus]
GUITAR SOLO: E A E B E
[Verse:]
E B
A pretty little girl and a jug of wine
A E
Well that's what it takes to make a honky tonk time
B
With the jukebox moaning those honky tonk sounds
A E
I can't wait to lay my money down
[Chorus x2]
Track 2 – It Won’t Hurt
Intro: D D A E A
[Chorus:]
A D A
It won't hurt when I fall down from this bar stool
A D E
It won't hurt when I stumble in the street
A D A
It won't hurt 'cause this whiskey eases misery
D D A E A
Even whiskey cannot ease your hurtin' me
[Verse:]
A D A
Today I had another bout with sorrow
E
You know this time I almost won
D A
If this bottle would just hold out 'til tomorrow
E A
I know that I would have sorrow on the run
[Chorus:]
Lead over Verse
[Verse:]
A D A
Your memory comes back up with each sunrise
E
I reach up for the bottle and find it's gone
D A
Yeah lord somewhere every night the whiskey leaves me
E A
To face this cold cold world on my own
[Chorus:]
[Outro:]
D D A E A
Even whiskey cannot ease your hurtin' me
Track 3 – I’ll Be Gone
[Verse:]
G D
I watch as you take off your clothes
C G
And slip under the sheets
D G
Then i turn and kick the boots off my feet
G D
Pull you close without a word
C G
For there's no need to speak
D G
Girl beauty like yours is hard to beat
[Chorus:]
G
But i'll be gone in the morning
C G
In the morning i'll be gone
D
Cause i'm not one for hangin' on
G C G
So please don't think you done somethin' wrong
D G
Cause in the morning when you wake you'll find me gone
[Verse:]
G D
Just one look at those fiery eyes
C G
Can almost erase
D G
The memory of any others face
D C G
and the passion that's unleashed can cause me to misplace
D G
I lose all track of time without a trace
[Chorus:]
G D
The sun intrudes and thrills
C G
Across the room it's golden tracks
D G
I shake the dreams and now it's back to facts
G D C G
As i turn to leave i know you had what so many lack
D G
And maybe someday it'll bring me back
[Chorus:]
Track 4 – South of Cincinnati
[Intro:] G C G
[Chorus:]
G B7 C G
If you ever get south of Cincinnati
C D7 G D7
Down where the dogwood trees grow
G B7 C G
If you ever get south of the Mason Dixon
C D7 G D7
To the home you left so long ago
G B7 C G
If you ever get south of the Ohio River
C D7 G D7
Down where Dixieland begins
G B7 C G
If you ever get south of Cincinnati
C D7 G C G
I’ll be yours again.
[Verse:]
G C G
She pulled the letter from the pages of her Bible
D7 G
And a rose pressed inside the Book of Luke
G C G
For fourteen years she’d write each day but keep it hidden
D7 G
Refused to even speak his name, but still she wrote:
[Chorus:]
[Instrumental, same chords as chorus]
[Verse:]
G C G
At a cold grey apartment in Chicago
D7 G
A cigarette drowns inside a glass of gin
C G
He lies there drunk but it don’t matter drunk or sober
D7 G
He’ll never read the words that pride won’t let her send
[Chorus:]
[Outro:]
C D7 G
Then I’ll be yours again
[Outro: G B7 C G C D7 G, G B7 C G C D7 G]
Track 5 – Bury Me (feat. Maria McKee)
Intro: A D E7 A
[Chorus:]
A D
Bury me along the Big Sandy,
A E7
Down in those blue gray mountains.
A D
Rest my soul in those hills of coal,
A E A
Until this old earth does tremble.
D A
Don't you mourn for me when my soul is free,
D E
No woman, don't you cry.
A D
You just bury me along the Big Sandy,
A E7 A
Under a blue Kentucky sky.
[Verse:]
A D
This old town of sin, its about to do me in,
A E7
I don't know how much I can stand.
A D
With my knees on the street and my heart at their feet,
A E A
I'm forced to beg from Satan's hand.
[Chorus]
INSTRUMENTAL A D A E7 A D A E A D A D E A D A E A
[Verse:]
A D
When I came to this land, I was strong and I could stand,
A E
Oh, but now I've somehow gone astray.
A D
Yet I still see the truth in the teaching of my youth,
A E A
And I know that the Lord ain't turned away.
[Chorus:]
[Outro:]
A E7 A
Under a blue Kentucky sky.
A E7 A
Under a blue Kentucky sky.
Track 6 - Guitars, Cadillacs
A
Girl, you taught me how to hurt real bad
E
And cry myself to sleep
A
And showed me how this town can shatter dreams
Another lesson 'bout a naive fool
E
Who came to Babylon
And found out that the pie
A
Don't taste so sweet
CHORUS
A E
Now it's guitars, cadillacs, hillbilly music
A
Lonely, lonely streets that I call home
E
Yea, my guitars, cadillacs, hillbilly music
A
The only things that keep me hangin' on
(Instrumental)
A
Ain't no glamour in this tinsle land
E
Of lost and wasted lives
A
Painful scars are all that's left of me
I wanna thank-you girl for teachin' me
E
Brand new ways to be cruel
A
Like findin' mine now I guess I'll just leave
(Chorus)
(Instrumental)
(Chorus)
Track 9 – Miner’s Prayer
G
When the whistle blows each morning, and I
D G
walk down in that cold dark mine. I say a
D
prayer for my dear savior please let me see
G
the sunshine one more time.
CHORUS
C G C
When oh when will it be over when will I
D G
lay these burdens down and when I die dear
D
Lord in heaven please take my sole from
G
beneath that cold dark ground.
SECOND VERSE
I still greive for my poor brother and I
D G
still hear my dear ol mother cry. But late
that night they came an told her he lost his
D G
life down in the vanleer mine.
CHORUS
BREAK MUSIC
THIRD VERSE
G
I have no shame I feel no sorrow if on this
D G
earth not much I own I have a love for my
D
sweet children an ol plow mule a shovel and
G
a hoe.
Chorus