Drive-By Truckers – Loaded Gun In The Closet (Guitar)

Song: Loaded Gun in the Closet Artist: Drive-By Truckers (Mike Cooley sometimes solos this one) The song is basically three chords, played normally, sus2, and sus4 by moving around 1 fret or two on the "e" and high "c" strings. Cooley walks among these combinations a lot, and from time to time, picks the melody on the middle C string, sliding between the notes while playing a C chord with the remaining srings. ===CHORDS===

Tuning   C    F    G
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e | 0 0 0 c | 0 5 0 G | 0 5 7 C | 0 5 7 G | 0 5 7 C | 0 5 7 F & G chords are usually strummed string-by-string as if they were picked, playing the "e" as a distinctive drone at the end of the chord.

C-Riff: C with sus2 & sus4
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e | 1p0 0 0 1p0 0 x c | 0 2 0 0 2 0 G | 0 0 0 0 0 0 C | 0 0 0 0 0 0 G | x x x 0 0 0 C | x x x x x 0 'x'=don't play/mute if 'e' string --------------------------------------------- INTRO [C-Riff] (2x) [C] (sliding melody on middle C string) [F] [C-Riff] [G] [F] [C-Riff] [C-Riff] He's got a [C] loaded gun in the closet And [C] another one in the dresser drawer

Just in [F]case the one in the closet
Didn't make a big enough [C-Riff] hole.

She had his [C] breakfast ready every morning And his [C] lunch in a box sitting out by the kitchen [F] door. She'd make [G] sure he had everything he [F] needed And hug his [G] neck and tell him how much she [F] loved him And it was [G] beautiful. You should have [F] seen it. [C-Riff] (2x) [ ... Remaining verses, chords are the same ... ] ENDS WITH [C-Riff] (1x) --crookedpath