John Hiatt – Straight Outta Time (Guitar)
Key
-
Versions
(2)
Guitar
Ukulele
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Speed:
1.0x
Chords
From: Paul Hutchinson ([email protected])
At least one of the guitars on the album is in dropped-D tuning, but
the acoustic is standard tuned (I think), so it sounds cool like that
if you're playing it by yourself.
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[Intro]
D G D G
[Verse]
D G Hot summer night, I was counting all the starlight on your skin D G C Airtight, as I watched you breathing out, I'm breathing in D G By the lake, so humid that the moon was getting wet D G C For our sake, the crickets started playing their castanets D G Like a gypsy, you stole me from a child into a man D G C It never hit me: I've been running ever since I took a stand D G And this love, like a Spanish moss a-hanging from the trees A Em Em/F# G Just swaying in the breeze, like a sweet mem-o-ry
[Chorus]
D C G Running straight outta time, straight outta time D C G Running straight outta time, straight outta time D G Since you were mine
[Verse]
D G That autumn chill, sent a shiver, girl, it shook us to the bone D G C And we still, had February frozen on the phone D G Spring thaw, would it find us with our lips frozen blue? D G C Love calls, but do we really live the time we're running through? D G Or like a dream, do we let it die and drift away to sleep D G C Until it screams like an echo in the history books you keep D G 'Cause that stream, running from the corners of my mind A Em Em/F# G Well looking back I find, like a river it unwinds
[Chorus]
D C G Running straight outta time, straight outta time D C G Running straight outta time, straight outta time
[Bridge]
A Running straight outta time just like an old man's fiddle G Looking for the dance; gonna meet me in the middle A I'm never gonna figure out the way that I feel - Em Em/F# G D Running straight outta time, but my love's still real
[Solo]
D G
D G C
D G
D G C
[Verse]
D G Now I see you, you're looking pretty in your summer dress D G C I can almost feel you, as you clutch your little locket to your breast D G Looking down at the picture, girl, you know you're looking fine D G Is it me? Was I ever in your heart or on your mind? D G Cause I'm running outta time D G N.C. I'm running straight outta time Were you ever mine?
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Main riff: D + + + G + +(C) + |-0---2-----------0-2p0---0-2p0---|-3----------------(3-3---3)------| |-3---3-----------3-3---3-3-3---3-|-3----------------(3-3---3)------| |-2---2-----------2-2---2-2-2---2-|-0----------------(0-0---0)------| |-0---0-----------0-0---0-0-0---0-|-0----------------(2-2---2)------| |---------------------------------|-2----------------(3-3---3)------| |---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
Notation used:
+ = Beat marker
p = Pull-off