Jimmie Rodgers – If I Were The Man (Guitar)

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Tabbed by: Mike Lydiat
E-mail: [email protected]

Simple chord pattern.
Use capo at fret 2 to play along with the original recording (in E):

[tab]   CHORD SHAPES
   D  C  Bm A
e|-2--0--2--0--|
B|-3--1--3--2--|
G|-2--0--4--2--|
D|-0--2--4--2--|
A|-x--3--2--0--|
E|-x--3--2--x--|

   D
If I were the man I used to be I wouldn't stand here

        C                 D
Waiting for you; I'd just walk away,

C                     D
Quietly, would you go look for me?

D
Hands that hold one another may never

          C          D
Touch the same again even then

              C            D
If I were the man it never would have been losing you

              Bm      A     D
If I were the man;

D
Take the times that we ever shared together and wrap them all in little

C                          D
Rings of clay and roll the rings away,

 C                        D
Away from me you take the light of day;

D
Winds that softly blow the thought of losing you

 C                  D
Across my mind, and leave behind

       C                     D
In the shifting sands all my dreams and plans

              Bm       A      D
If I were the man,

D
If I were the man I used to be I wouldn't stand here

         C               D
Waiting for you I'd just walk away

C                    D          C       D     C      D
Quietly would you go look for me?