Justin Townes Earle – Am I That Lonely Tonight (Guitar Intro Tab)

Capo 2 Video Lesson
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Chords

[Intro] C Am Dm F G [Verse 1]
C                    Am
Hear my father on the radio

       Dm              F   G
singing take me home again

C                           Am
Three hundred miles from the Carolina coast and I'm

Dm                F   G (riff 1)
 skin and bones again
[Chorus 1]
Am                           C
Sometimes I wish that I could get away

Am                          G
Sometimes I wish that he'd just call

         F               G          C    G (riff 2)
Am I that lonely tonight? I don't know
[Verse 2]
C                          Am
There's just something in a night like this that can

Dm              F   G (riff 1)
 Be so hard to take

C                  Am
Oncoming headlights through the mountain mist

Dm                            F              G
They're too close for comfort, too much at stake, so
[Verse 3]
C             Am
Turn the radio down

Dm                     F          G
Roll the windows up and say to myself that

C    Am
        I thought I'd be a

Dm           F    G (riff 1)
better man
[Chorus 2]
Am                           C
Sometimes I wish that I could find a way

Am                       G
Where I don't feel so all alone

         F               G        C     G  (riff 2)
Am I that lonely tonight? I don't know
[Instrumental] C Am Dm F G (riff 1) C Am Dm F G (riff 1) [Chorus 3]
Am                            C
Sometimes I think that I have found a place

Am                   G
Where I don't feel so all alone

           Dm
Am I that lonely tonight?

           F
Am I that lonely tonight?

           G
Am I that lonely tonight?

         C
I don't know
[Outro] Am Dm F G (riff 1) C Am Dm F G C (S) = JTE-style percussive slap / strum [Riff 1] F G
         (S)         (S)
E|--------1-----0-----0-----|
B|--------1--0-----3--3--0--|
G|-----2--2-----------0-----|
D|--------3-----------0-----|
A|--------3-----------x-----|
E|--1-----x-----3-----x-----|
[Riff 2] C G C (S) (S) (S) (S) (S)
E|--------0--0--------0----------0--1--1-----0----------0--|
B|--------1--------1--1--0h3--3--3--------3--3--0h1-----1--|
G|-----0--0-----------0----------0-----------0-------0--0--|
D|--------2-----------2----------0-----------0----------2--|
A|--3-----3-----3-----3----------x-----------x----3-----x--|
E|--------x-----------x----3-----x-----3-----x----------x--|