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

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

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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