Barenaked Ladies – Tonight Is The Night I Fell Asleep At The Wheel (Guitar)

Capo 2
Key
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Chords

Can be played on an acoustic guitar or a banjitar (as BNL play it). 3/4 time. Chord voicings, relative to the capo G: 320033 D: xx0232 Cadd9: x32033 Am: x02210 Esus4: 022200 E: 022100 Em7: 022033 Gsus4: 3x0013 D6: xx0202 C6: x32210 C: x32010 D7sus4: xx0213 D7: xx0212 [Intro] G D Cadd9 D G D Cadd9 D [Verse]
G       D       Cadd9   D
Driving home to be with you

    G           D           Cadd9     D
The highway's dividing, the city's in view

Am               Esus4     E
   As usual, I'm almost on time

Am                       Esus4        E
   You're the last thing that's on my mind

  G            D            Cadd9      D
I wish I could tell you the way that I feel

      Em7          G             D            G
But tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel
[Verse]
G     D       Cadd9        D
No commotion, no screaming brakes

G            D      Cadd9   D
Most of it's over before I awake

G        D           Cadd9      D
From the ceiling, my coffee cup drips

G            D           Cadd9        D
While out my window, the horizon does flips

Am                    Esus4       E
   The worst part was hitting the ground

Am                    Esus4       E
   Not the feeling so much as the sound

G              D         Cadd9       D
Can't help but wonder if all this is real

        Em7          G             D            G
Cause tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel
[Verse]
G          D           Cadd9  D
Rubberneck traffic and passersby

    G           D          Cadd9       D
And Slow Motion Walter the fire engine guy

Am                        Esus4       E
  Stand around with their mouths open wide

Am                          Esus4       E
  I heard some idiot ask if someone's inside

Cadd9      G                 Cadd9          G
  With the Jaws of Life they tried and they tried

G      D        Cadd9      D
Nobody here can know how I feel

        Em7          G             D            Cadd9
Cause tonight is the night I fell asleep at the wheel
[Bridge]
G D          Cadd9 D
I guess it's over  now

           G
Cause I've never seen so much

Cadd9               G
Never seen so much, never seen so much

Cadd9
Never seen so much

G D          Cadd9 D
I guess it's over  now

           G
Cause I've never seen so much

Cadd9               G
Never seen so much, never seen so much

D
Bloooooooood!
[Verse]
   G          D               Cadd9     D
In all the confusion, there's something serene

G          D          Cadd9       D
I'm just a posthumous part of the scene

Am                   Esus4        E
   Now I'm floating above looking in

Am              Esus4             E
   As the radio blares and wheels spin

G       D           Cadd9        D
  I can see my face slump with a grin

    D
And you...
[Coda]
           G          D     Cadd9 D
You're the last thing on my mind

           G          D     Cadd9 D
You're the last thing on my mind

           G          D     Cadd9 D
You're the last thing on my mind

           G          D     Cadd9 D
You're the last thing on my mind
Gsus4 G D6 D C6 C D7sus4 D7
G
Oooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhhh!