Damien Jurado – Johnny Go Riding (Guitar)
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
Tabbed by: [email protected]
In standard tuning, no capo. (Though I more often play it all half a step down
but thats due more to my personal obsession with this tuning than anything else)
The whole song is essentially just (same pattern for every verse).
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Dsus2 G Johnny lets go out riding to a place outside of town Dsus2 G I go there every Sunday to watch the sun go down Dsus2 G There's plenty of girls who know you, they've been asking where you've been A G Johnny don't dissapoint them, they'd all like to see you again Dsus2 G Willy I don't think im ready to leave this house of mine Dsus2 G You go out and tell them I'm not the social kind Dsus2 G Some men they are lovers and others the fighting type A G And me I'm in the middle of choosing which one I'd like..... to be Dsus2 G Judy she's out catching rides in passing cars Dsus2 G The memories of me and her have burned out like the stars Dsus2 G Me I'm not dissapointed knowing that she's free A G Somewhere down the line I knew she'd one day up and leave Dsus2 G Willy forget your troubles and lay back on the grass Dsus2 G There's no need to get nostalgic thinking about the past Dsus2 G What's gone is gone, what's here is now, she's standing by your fence A G She's wearing a beautiful party dress and wanting you to dance..... hey hey.
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But the real flavour of the song is in all the little runs and hammer-ons,
a lot of the time the first strum of the Dsus2 hammers on as below:
e|--0----| B|--3----| G|--0h2--| D|--0----| A|-------| E|-------|
and at the end of the G (particularly in the instrumental sections)
there's often a run down on the D string something like this:
e|-----------------| B|-----------------| G|-----------------| D|--4-4-4-4-2-0-0--| A|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--| E|-----------------|
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| h Hammer-on
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