Waits Tom - I Wish I Was In New Orleans guitar chord

Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:59:36 -0800

From: Gene McKenna

Subject: CRD: w/waits_tom/I_Wish_I_was_in_New_Orleans.crd

Tom Waits: I wish I was in New Orleans

Words and Music: Tom Waits

Album: A Japanese import -  (Sorry, I can't read Katakana,

     but it probably says Tom-u Waits-u)

I included a line for the beat, which in most places

is obvious, but there is one measure that has two beats

and that threw me when I went to write it down.

Figuring out the words for this one is as challenging as

the music. I left "----" in a few spots. Anyone speak Waits?

There is one chord whose correct name somewhat eludes me.

After checking with Paul Zimmerman's chord theory page on

Olga, I think it is Ebdim7, which would be  Eb Gb Bbb Dbb

or Eb Gb A C.

GENE

Intro:

1    2    3    4    1    2    3       4  

        C         C9        F         C      

        C         Am7       D7        Dm7     G  

        C         C9        F    Em7  Ebdim7

        C         G7        C         G7

        C         C9        F         Cadd9

Well I wish  I   was  in   New     Orleans

        C         Am7       Dm7       G7

        I   can   see  it   in my dreams

        C         C9        F         Cadd9

        Arm  in   arm down  Bur  gun  dy

1   2     3     4   1       2         ( last measure, in 2/4 )

C         Am7       Dm7     G7

        A bottle  and   my  friends and

C         C9        F         G7

me.       Hoist up afew tall  cool ones play some

      

1    2    3     4        1  2  3  4   ( standard beat, long words )

        C         Am7            D7

pool and  listen to that tenor saxophone

G   G7

callin me home.

And I can hear the band begin

When the Saints Go Marchin' In

By the whiskers on my chin

New Orleans I'll be there

I'll drink you under the table

---- red nose, go for a walk

the old haunts what I wants

is red beans and rice

And wear the dress I like so well

Meet me at the old saloon

Make sure there's a Dixie Moon

New Orleans I'll be there

And deal the cards, roll the dice

If it ain't that ole ---------

--------------- me and you

Sam Jones and all?????

And I wish I was in New Orleans

I can see it in my dreams

Arm in arm down Burgundy

(rit) A bottle and, my friends and me,

New Orleans I'll be there

--

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