Grateful Dead – My Gal (Guitar)

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"Mother McCree's Uptown Jug Champions" or "What Jerry Garcia did before the Grateful Dead" This is a cover of a traditional jug tune [Intro]

             C
Fingerpicked C chord with walking bass and melody

e|--(0)--(0)--(0)--(0)
B|---1-1-1-1-3-1--1--
G|---0----0----0--3-0
D|---2----2----2----2
A|-3---------3-------
E|------3---------3--

Play this for four bars and then switch to plain C Chord without the melody [Verse 1]

C
The rich gal she ride in an automobile

C                     G
Poor gal do quite the same

C          C7           F
My gal she rides an old ugly hay wagon

F   G                            C
But she's getting round just the same

[Chorus]

C
Well I'll be there in the morning if I live

C                                           G
I'll be there in the morning if I don't get killed

C           C7    F
If I never, never see you no more

F             G               C
Why don't you please remember me

[Verse 2]

C
The rich gal when she's fighting, she'll bop you with a stick

C                     G
Poor gal do quite the same

C            C7              F
My gal get a rusty razor and run you all over town

F                     G             C
Because she's raising hell just the same

[Chorus]

C
The rich gal, she drink that good ol' whiskey

C                            G
Poor gal she drink quite the same

C              C7          F
But my gal she drinks that nasty old Thunderbird wine

F            G                C
And she gets twisted just the same

[Chorus]

C
A rich gal she'll kiss you nice, she'll kiss you oh so sweet

C                         G
Poor gal she do quite the same

C             C7                  F
My gal she'll jump on you, she'll snaggle on your lips

F       G                        C
And she will loving you just the same