Rod Stewart – Shotgun Wedding (Guitar)

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--------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Written by: Roy C. Hammond From: “Rod Stewart – Lead Vocalist” (1993) Tabbed by: maguri Tuning: Standard --------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Intro 1] Wedding March (first in minor key, finally resolved to major) [Intro 2] | D | % | % | % | | D | % | % | % | [Verse 1]
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 People were standing, all around

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 At a shot gun wedding, here in this town

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And I'm a victim, oh yea, of a shotgun wedding

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Cause your fathers got a gun

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And there ain't no place to run

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Shotgun wedding and oh listen to me
[Verse 2]
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Well I got to find a job

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You, me, baby makes three

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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun wedding oh yea

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Cause your fathers got a gun

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And there ain't no place to run

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Shotgun wedding and all I could hear that day was
[Verse 3]
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“Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?”

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My, my, my, my, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun wedding

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I looked around, I looked around

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And all I could see was a shotgun wedding ... listen
[Verse 4]
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But I tried to run from town, but her mother tracked me down

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She said, “Before I meet my maker

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Some man’s gonna make an honest woman of my daughter. So it might as well be you

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Oh, daddy may be poor, but he owns a forty-four”

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Shotgun wedding

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And oh, I'm walking up the aisle right now
[Verse 5]
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               Here comes the bride singing

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Shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun, shotgun.....yea yeaaaa
[Outro]
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I could have run away oh no I could be living high

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Nobody could stop me now oh shotgun, shotgun

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 Just give me one more chance

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Let me hear that bass boys, that bass boys

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Breaking my heart, breaking my heart, breaking my heart...
(fade out over outro)