Talking Heads

Talking Heads - Take Me To The River guitar chord

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ksm@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Ken MacFarlane) writes:

>Does anyone have any Talking Heads, especially Once in A Lifetime, Psycho

>Killer or Take Me To The River?

Take Me to the River--Al Green, et al

intro: E7 Asus4 A(repeat vamp to verse 1)

E7 Asus4 A

verse 1:I don't know why I love you like I do

E7 Asus4 A

After all the changes you been putting me through

E7 Asus4 A

You took my money and my cigarettes

E7 Asus4 A

Now I ain't seen hide nor hair of you yet

C G D A A7

chorus: I wanna know, won't you tell me, I'd love to say...

E7 Asus4 A E7

Take me to the river, wash me down

E7 E7+5 Asus4 A E

Take me to the water, put my feet on the ground

turnaround Asus4 A

verse 2:I don't know why she treated me so bad

After all the things that we could have had

Love is emotion that I can't forget

My sweet sixteen I will never regret (repeat chorus)

Dbm A

bridge: Hold me, love me

Dbm A

Please me, baby you can squeeze me

B E7

Til I drown, til I drown, til I drown, I'm gonna take you to the river

verse3: I don't know why I love you like I do

After all the changes you been putting me through

Your sixteen candles are burnin' on my wall

Telling me how you made a fool of them all (repeat chorus)

verse

chords: E7 0 2 0 1 3 0 or...

E7 0 7 6 7 5 0(I like this version better)

Asus4 x 0 4 2 3 0

A x 0 2 2 2 0

chorus chords:

C x 3 5 5 x x or...

C x 3 5 5 0 0(jangly)

G 3 5 5 x x x

D x 5 7 7 x x

A x 0 2 2 2 0(if you can get to it)

A 5 7 7 x x x(if you can't)

A7 x 0 7 6 8 x(funky chord, mute the A string)

rest of the chorus chords like the verse chords, except...

E7+5 0 7 6 7 8 0(mute both E strings or let 'em ring)

bridge chords:

Dbm x 4 6 6 5 x

A x 0 2 2 2 x

B x 2 4 4 x x or...

B x 2 4 4 0 0 (jangly)

B7 x x 4 2 4 x or...

B7 x x 9 8 10 x (funky)

This is a hybrid version of Al Green, Delbert McClinton, and the Talking Heads

versions. I hope I didn't goof on putting the chords down. I'm new at this

method. Mike James US30139@VM.CC.LATECH.EDU

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