Slaughter Beach, Dog – Henry (Guitar)
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Chords
Jake noodles around these chords, I’m sure you could strum them and it would sound fine.
C F C/G C/F F/G Dm e|---------------------------------------1----------------------------| B|---1------1------1------1------1-------3----------------------------| G|---0------2------0------0------2-------2----------------------------| D|---2------3------2------3------3-------0----------------------------| A|---3------3------0------3------0------------------------------------| E|-----------------3-------------3------------------------------------|
[intro]
C F C C/G F C C/G F G
C F C C/G Henry was a good boy from Georgia F C C/G His momma thought he could lose some weight F C F G Well his momma was creative she went to the music store and brought home a stand-up bass C F C C/G He carried that bass everywhere that he’d go F C C/G Started to study the greats C F C F G/C F C Snuck home some Charles Mingus records one night blew his young mind clean away C F C C/G He got a porkpie hat just like Mingus F C C/G Stole some of those little cigars C F C/G Carried that bass to school every day Dm G Smoked cigars in the schoolyard C F C C/G Started saving his lunch money F C C/G Set aside some everyday F C C/G Dm G Said he was gonna buy an airline ticket to fly off to Europe and play C F C C/G He’d play for the cultured folks out there F C C/G The kinds that wear scarves and berets F C C/F C C/F C C/G Some high minded people who smoked little cigarettes and drink little coffees all day
C C/G
C F C C/G That’s until his mother came home one afternoon C F C C/G Found his money, found his cigars F C C/G Dm G Took all those Charles Mingus records outside, ran them over, just crushed ‘em C F C C/G She made him to eat boiled cod every night F C C/G No TV certainly no books F C C/G F F/G Sent him away to a military school, turned his bedroom into an office C F C C/G Henry got to marchin’, pushin’ up, pullin’ up F C C/G Blowing on bugles all day F C C/G He never heard no Charles Mingus again F F/G C/G And lord knows he lost more than weight