Elvis Presley – Trouble - Guitar Man (Guitar)

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“Trouble/Guitar Man” Intro to the ’68 Comeback Special (second half of “Trouble” not in the original) [Verse 1]

C                             F C
If you're looking for trouble

                            G C
You came to the right place

                              F C
If you're looking for trouble

                             G C
Take a look right at my face

                       F C
I was born standing up

                 G C
And talking back

[Chorus 1]

N.C.                         C  C7
My daddy was a green-eyed mountain jack

           F7 F                    C  C7
'Cause I'm evil, my middle name is misery

            G7 F7                 F           C
Well, I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me

[Verse 2]

                              F C
I've never looked for trouble

                   G C
But I've never ran

                       F C
I don't take no orders

                    G C
From no kind of man

                  F C
I'm only made out

                         G C
Of flesh, blood and bone

[Chorus 2]

N.C.                                          C     C7
But if you're gonna start a rumble, Don't you try it all alone

            F7  F                 C     C7
Because I'm evil, my middle name is misery, whoa

          G7 F7                   F           C
Well, I'm evil, so don't you mess around with me

[Interlude] (transition) C D A A A A [Verse 3]

                    D
Well, I quit my job down at the car wash, Left my mama a goodbye note

By sundown I'd left Kingston, With my guitar under my coat

                 G                                          G7
I hitchhiked all the way down to Memphis, Got a room at the YMCA

             D7
For the next three weeks I went huntin' them nights, Just lookin' for a place to play

              A7                                      G7
Well, I thought my pickin' would set 'em on fire, But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man

[Interlude] D G G A A [Chorus 3]

                     D
Well, I nearly 'bout starved to death down in Memphis, I run outta money and luck

            D7
So I bought me a ride down to Macon, Georgia, On a overloaded poultry truck

             G
I thumbed on down to Panama City, Started pickin' out some o' them all night bars

D7
Hopin' I could make myself a dollar, Makin' music on my guitar

               A7                                       G
I got the same old story at them all night piers, There ain't no room around here for a

       D
guitar man

[Interlude] G C D [Verse 4]

   G                                              G7
So I slept in the hobo jungles, Roamed a thousand miles of track

       D7
Till I found myself in Mobile Alabama, At a club they call Big Jack's

           G7
A little four-piece band was jammin', So I took my guitar and I sat in

      E7                                            A7
I showed 'em what a band would sound like, With a swingin' little guitar man

Show 'em, son [Interlude] D F C D F C D E7 E E E E B7 [Outro]

                   E
If you ever take a trip down to the ocean, Find yourself down around Mobile

  E7                                                                E
Make it on out to a club called Jack's, If you got a little time to kill

   A
Just follow that crowd of people, You'll wind up out on his dance floor

E7
Diggin' the finest little five piece group, Up and down the Gulf of Mexico

   B7                                            A
Guess who's leadin' that five-piece band, Well, wouldn't ya know, it's that swingin'

              E    D E7 D E7 D E   E! E!
little guitar man