Steve Miller Band – Harbor Lights (Guitar)

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Author's Note: During the Verse D chord, Steve plays a random Dsus4. There is really no pattern. Chordfinder calls the last chord before the Chorus as Gmaj7(13 no 3}/A. It looks like X04050, but I'm not 100% sure. [Intro] E G D E G D E G D [Verse 1]
      E       G        D     E              G           D
I can see the harbor lights, looks like the fourth of July

E     G           D                 A
Maybe Christmas night, reflected in water

E G     D   E   D         D
  In my cell, behind this wall

E  G        D                             A   A7sus4 Gmaj7/A
 I share my time, with many a soul who is lost
[Chorus]
C           G           D
 Why must I always be a loser

C            G         C  D
 Why can't I ever be a winner
[Verse 2]
E    G     D   E      G       D
 And so as time, goes rolling by

E  G       D                     A
 I lose my chance, it's only one life

   E         G           D
If I had the wings of an angel

     E            G             D
O'er these prison walls I would fly

E G                 D                 A    A7sus4 Gmaj7/A
  Straight from the darkness into the light
[Chorus]
C           G           D
 Why must I always be a loser

C            G         C  D
 Why can't I ever be a winner
[Verse 3]
E G                          D
  My dearest darling, as I'm writing you this letter

E G                          D
  They're coming to take me away

E G                                       D
  They're beginning to shave my head now, sweetheart, but as their doing it, I just want you to know

E                        G            D
 That I wouldn't have it any other way

E    G                             D
 I'm glad that I killed your mother

         E         G            D
She was a low-down dirty old hag

E               G                         D
 But in the end darling you will get your revenge

                       E                   G                        D
Because you see the're gonna send you my belongings in a plastic bag
[Outro]
E G       D
  La, la, la

E  G       D
 A plastic bag