Joe Purdy – Waiting For Loretta Too Long (Guitar)

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Chords

There is some picking in here I haven’t figured out quite yet but a simple quick pace strum works just fine.
     F      C/G
e|---0-------0---|
B|---1-------1---|
G|---2-------0---|
D|---3-------2---|
A|---3-------3---|
E|---0-------3---|
[Verse]
C/G                 F
I know a girl she's blonde and free

                      G
Turns 21 on New Year’s Eve

C/G                     F
Everytime i see her she clings to me

                             G
Cause thats what young girls do

C/G                      F
Shes fire on her own she knows me well

                      G
Never gets mad at the storys i tell

C/G                          F
Shes an old soul living in a cheap motel

G              C/G
Travelin to by sea
[Chorus]
F                    C/G
I been up and i been down

           F               G
And i been away and i been around

C/G                  F
And i been mopin all around this town

G                       C/G
Waiting for loretta too long
[Verse]
C/G
Well i knew a girl

           F
I knew her family too

                                     G
And theyd all try to skin me if they only knew

     C/G                   F
But it only happened for a time or two

           G                        C/G
I couldn't hold her all through the storm

C/G
Well shes a comfort in the rain

       F
Shes a walk in the park
Shes cold in the day
G
Cool when its dark

     C/G                       F                     pause
And i came outside and she was standing on my car

          G                         C/G
She don't like it when i tell her no
[Chorus]
F                           C/G
Well i been up and i been down

       F               G
I been away and i been around

      C/G                 F
And i been mopin all around this town

G                      C/G
Waitin for loretta too long
[Verse]
C/G                             F
Well i met a girl she liked the way i smelled

                                                G
Thought it was a little bit weird but i thought what the hell

      C/G                      F
So we road all around til the morning fell

            G                 C/G
I liked her freckles in the sunrise

C/G                         F
So i saw her again but it wasn't too long

                                   G
Before she asked me to sing her a loretta song

     C/G                          F
And thats about the time everything went wrong

        G                     C/G
I never saw or heard from her again

 C/G
Cause she knew better than that

      F
And she knew better than me

                                         G
And she could see all the things i couldn't yet see

  C/G                     F
And she told me id get it eventually

           G
I'm still looking i guess
[Chorus]
F                        C/G
So i been up and i been down

            F               G
And i been away and i been around

     C/G                        F
And i been mopin all around this town

   G                     C/G
Waiting for loretta too long