John Mayer - Why Georgia Tabs

PROPS GO TO: Green L

Transcribed Josh Gilmore, Alan Myers
Michael Scott and Catherine Gagné


Part 1

Intro/Verse

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b-----3----3---------------------  middle finger
g-----0h2--0---------0-------0---  index
d-----------------4--------4-----  ring finger
a-------------0---5------5-------  pinky
e---3----------------------------  thumb
    

Part 2

(album)

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He hits 3 on the b string a lot.. The chords are (x3243x) and (x3223x). The riff 
is not exact but live, he plays it differently everytime. 


Part 3

"I wonder sometimes.." 

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Live, (3x0230) is often played this way (3x0032)  


Part 4

Chorus 

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Part 5

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Part 6

"When I say I've got it down"

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(1)

I am driving up 85 in the
Kind of morning that lasts all afternoon (2) 
just stuck inside the gloom (1)
4 more exits to my apartment but
I am tempted to keep the car in drive (2)
And leave it all behind (1)

(3) Cause I wonder sometimes
About the outcome
Of a still verdictless life

(4) Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why?

(1) 

I rent a room and I fill the spaces with
Wood in places to make it feel like home (2) 
But all I feel's alone (1)
It might be a quarter life crisis (2) 
Or just the stirring in my soul (1)

(3) Either way I wonder sometimes
About the outcome
Of a still verdictless life

(4) Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why? (5)

(5) So what, so I've got a smile on
But it's hiding the quiet superstitions in my head
Don't believe me
When I say I've got it down (1) 

Everybody is just a stranger but
That's the danger in going my own way (2)
I guess it's the price I have to pay (1) 

(3b) Still "everything happens for a reason"
Is no reason not to ask myself 

(4) If I am living it right
Am I living it right?
Am I living it right?
Why Georgia, why? (1)