Tuning CGCFAC
Intro: D(no 3rd) C* C#* D*
D(no3rd) G7 G
Ah, tell me mama ah, tell me darlin'
D(no3rd)
Now that it's time for me to go
G7 G
Ah, don't you hold me down
D(no3rd)
And kill the man you love
C G/B D(no3rd)
Sweet mama what you gonna do
C G/B D(no3rd)
Ah, now darlin' what you gonna do
C G/B D(no3rd)
Mama what you gonna do for love
G7 G
Ah, when that sun shines ah, honey
D(no3rd)
And I'm living in your love again
G7
Ah, won't you let me know
G D(no3rd)
Do I stay or do I go oh, yeah,
C G/B D(no3rd)
Ah, darlin', what you gonna do now
C G/B D(no3rd)
I said now mama what you gonna do
C G/B D(no3rd)
Now mama what you gonna do for love
D(no3rd) A C G D(no3rd)
When I'm gone when I'm gone when I'm gone when I'm gone
D(no3rd) A C G
Ah, when I'm gone gone gone gone gone gone gone
D(no3rd)
When I'm gone
(Play C* and C#* by sliding up from the 5th to the 6th fret throughout the guitar solo and the vocal improvisation "darling so young and tender...
C* C#* C* C#* ..........
Darlin' so young and
tender,
So quick to surrender
Everything that you
don't own,
Know that you've got
not
You make love like a
skinned cat
Crawlin' across a highway
Tryin' to git to the
other side,
Don't know why you just
gotta try
D(no3rd)
G7
Ah, when that devil
G
When that devil gets
you honey
D(no3rd)
Oh, I want to know
G7
G
D(no3rd)
That's when I'll come
home and start to love again
C
G/B
D(no3rd)
Ah, sweet mama what
you gonna do
C
G/B
D(no3rd)
Ah, sweet mama what
you gonna do now
C
G/B
D(no3rd)
Aw Daddy what you gonna
do for love
D(no3rd)
A
C G D(no3rd)
When I'm gone, when
I'm gone, when I'm gone, Lord
D(no3rd) A C
G
When I'm gone, gone,
gone, mama, when I'm gone
When I'm gone, yeah,
sweet mama,
D(no3rd)
Yes, ah, when I'm gone
Get that devil get that
devil
Slide up from 4th
to 5th fret (B and C)
Gonna go back home,
so long,
Just want to get some
sun on my shoulder
And get a bit of sand
in my shoes
I love you New York
City, but I see that sun shinin'
And I don't want to
stay here no more
Dno 3rd
Oh, what you gonna do
Oh yeah...