Intro 1: down strum, pick, down strum, pick
GC9E|-----3----3-------3----3----|
B|-----3---3-3------3---3-3---|
G|-----0--0---0-----0--0---0--|
D|-----0------------2---------|
A|-----2------------3---------|
E|-----3------------0---------|
Intro 2: 4 down strums, one up. Change chord on the up strum
G, C9, G, C9
Verse and Chorus: up and down 6 times for a full measure. For the Am and D
use up and down 3 times each for a full measure with those 2 chords.
GDC
Alone with the morning burning red in the canvas in my head
AmD
Painting a picture of you
GDC
And me driving across country, in a dusty old RV
AmD
Just the road and its majesty
CD
And I'm looking at you with the world in the rear view
G
You were pretty as can be, sitting in the front seat
DG
Looking at me, telling me you love me, and your happy to be,
C9
With me on the 4th of July
G
We sang Stranglehold to the stereo
D
Couldn't take no more of that rock n roll
GC9
So we put on a little George Jones and just sang along
G, C9, G, C9 (Intro 2 style strum)
GDC
Those white lines get drawn into the sun if you aint got no one
AmD
To keep you hanging on
GD
And there you were like a queen with your nightgown,
C
Riding shotgun from town to town
AmD
Staking a claim on the world we found
CD
And I'm singing to you, your singing to me ,you were out of the blue to a
boy like me
G
You were pretty as can be, sitting in the front seat
DG
Looking at me, telling me you love me, and your happy to be,
C9
With me on the 4th of July
G
We sang Stranglehold to the stereo
D
Couldn't take no more of that rock n roll
GC9
So we put on a little George Jones and just sang along
CD
and im looking for you in the silence that we share
(No chord) G
You were pretty as can be, sitting in the front seat
DG
Looking at me, telling me you love me, and your happy to be,
C9
With me on the 4th of July
G
We sang Stranglehold to the stereo
D
Couldn't take no more of that rock n roll
GC9
So we put on a little George Jones and just sang along
D
Sang along....