Randy Newman – New Orleans Wins The War (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Randy Newman From: “Land of Dreams” (1988) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard
CHORDS
           E-A-D-G-B-e
E          x-x-2-1-0-0

B7sus4/F#  x-x-4-2-0-0
E/G#       x-x-6-4-0-0
B7/D#      x-x-1-2-0-2
A7-9       x-0-2-3-2-3
E/B        x-2-x-1-0-0
C7sus4/G   3-x-3-3-1-x
F/A        x-0-3-2-1-x
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro] A7/G E/G# D7/C [Verse 1]
E              B7sus4/F#     E/G# B7sus4/F#
Don't remember much about my baby days

E     B7/D#     E     E7
  But I've been told

   F                             E
We used to live on Willow in the Garden District

A7-9         B7    E
 Next to the sugar bowl
[Verse 2]
E             B7sus4/F#        E/G#      B7sus4/F#
Momma used to wheel me past an ice cream wagon

E            B7sus4/F# E/G#         E7
One side for white and one side for colored

    A                              E
I remember the trash cans floatin' down Canal Street

B7                       E     Em6 E
 It rained every day one summer
[Middle 8]
C#m                      E
Momma used to take me to Audubon Park

A            B7          E     E7
 Show me the ways of the world

          A                        E
She’d say, "Here comes a white boy, there goes a black one

B7                 E    E7
 That one's an octaroon

A                            E
 This little cookie here's a macaroon

B7                       E      E7
That big round thing's a red balloon

        A                            E
And the paper down here's called the picayune

    B7           A              [ E ]
And here's a New Orleans tune"
[Interlude] | E | G#7 | C#m | A | | E/B | B | E | % | [Verse 3]
   F  C7sus4/G   F/A         C7sus4/G
In 1948 my Daddy came to the city

F         C7sus4/G      F/A        F7
 Told the people they'd won the war
[Bridge]
Bb                     F
 Maybe they'd heard it, maybe not

C7                                F
 Probably they'd heard it and they just forgot

            Bb                      F
'Cause they built him a platform in Jackson Square

        C7                          F
And the people came to hear him from everywhere

     Bb                   F
They started to party and partied some more

           C7          Bb        [ F ]
'Cause New Orleans had won the war
[Interlude]
| F F#dim7 | C/G C7 | F F#dim7 | C/G C7 |
(We knew we'd do it, we done whip the yankees)

| F F7/Eb | Bb/D Bbm/Db |  *  |   *   D7 |
                          (orchestral link)
[Verese 4]
G                 D7sus4/A           G/B         D7sus4/A
 Daddy said, "I'm gonna get this boy out of this place

G         D7sus4/A G/B       G7
 Bound to sap his  strength

C                           G
People have fun here, and I think that they should

    D7                    G          G7
But nobody from here ever come to no good

              C                        G
They're gonna pickle him in brandy and tell him he's saved

D7                      G          G7
 Throw firecrackers all 'round his grave"

        C                            G
Took us down to the airport, flew us back to L.A

             D7        C       [ G ]
That was the end of my baby days
[Coda]
G           B7      Em  Em/D       C
  Blue blue morning,    blue, blue day

G/D        D                 G
  All your bad dreams drift away

       G          B7      Em    Em/D       C
It's a blue, blue morning, of a blue, blue day

G/D          D              G
  Lose those bad dreams

C                   Cm
 Those gray clouds above you

G                    G7
 What you want them around with you for?

A7
 You got someone to love you

D          A7sus4/E Fdim7 D/F#
 Who could ask for  more?

       G          B7      Em    Em/D       C
It's a blue, blue morning, of a blue, blue day

G/D        D                 G
  All your bad dreams drift away