Waylon Jennings – Cedartown Georgia (Guitar)

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as recorded on CEDARTOWN GEORGIA, a 1971 album by WAYLON JENNINGS Notes: Use single downstrokes for D A E and D E A parts, I put the changes as accurately as possible in relation to the lyrics. I use a single B chord and let ring during the words, then start strumming again at E (after bass riff). [Intro] D A E [Verse 1]
E                        D   A   E
I got a gal in Cedartown Georgia

          E                                  D     A    E
I used to have to walk nearly three miles to court her

    A                                     D    E   A
She never had much, just a sharecropper's daughter

      F#
But I married her and took her down to New Orleans

B                         N.C.                            B7
Got a little house in the South French Quarter (bass riff)
[Verse 2]
      E                                D    A    E
Got a job hookin' bales, load em' on a steamboat

           E                                D   A    E
I give her seven days pay, and the next day I'm broke

     A                                   D   E    A
When she ain't sleeping all day, she's a primpin'

F#
Every evening when the sun goes down

B                         N.C.                   B7
She starts a swarmin' on 'Orlean town (bass riff)
[Verse 3]
E                                 D  A    E
Walkin' into work this morning at daybreak

  E                                            D    A    E
I caught her with the tall lord dandy from New King Bay

    A                                    D       E     A
She walked right by and she looked right through me

  F#
I made up my mind what I'm a gonna do

B                        N.C.                          B7
Eased in a pawnshop and bought a twenty-two (bass riff)
[Verse 4]
  E                                     D    A   E
I watched as the room clerk gave them a room key

E                                  D      A     E
Standing outside I could read room twenty-three

  A                                 D   E   A
Tonight I'll put her on a train for Georgia

      F#
Gonna be a lotta kin folks squallin' and grievin'

 B                        N.C.                       E
'Cause that Cedartown gal ain't breathin' (bass riff)
E D A E