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Blaze Foley - I Should Have Been Home Tabs

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I Should Have Been Home Tabs

(ver. 1)
Blaze Foley
Standard Tuning 
INTRO

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|-----------0--------||0h3--------0--------||0h3--------3--------||-----------0--------|
 Am                    F                     Am                    Em
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|-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------|
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|0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------|
 Am                    F                     Am        E           Am
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|0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------|
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|--------------------||----1---------------||-----------0--------||-----------0--------|
Am
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|0h3--------0--------|



VERSE 1

Saw a dancin' young lady, who worked in a bar...
 Am                    F                          
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A dozen lone rangers, don't know who they are...
 Am                    E                          
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The waitress was spinnin', my head was ajar...
 Am                    F                          
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And I should have been home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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 Am                                             
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|----0---------------|
|0h3-----------------|


VERSE 2

Saw a reelin' old drunk man, dancin' around...
 Am                    F                          
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Thought his gray whiskers, still must have been brown...
 Am                    E                          
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Ida Lupino, wouldn't keep her dress down...
 Am                    F                          
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|--------------------||----1---------------|

I should have been home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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|--------------------||----0---------------|
|----0---------------||-----------0--------|
 Am                                             
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|--------------------|
|-----------2--------|
|--------------------|
|----0---------------|
|0h3-----------------|


INTERLUDE

Am                    F                     Am                    Em
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|-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------|
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||-----------2--------|
|0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------|
 Am                    F                     Am        E           Am
|--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------|
|--------------------||--------------------||--------------------||--------------------|
|--------------------||-----------2--------||--------------------||--------------------|
|0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------|
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------|
|--------------------||----1---------------||-----------0--------||-----------0--------|
Am
|--------------------|
|--------------------|
|-----------2--------|
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|----0---------------|
|0h3-----------------|


VERSE 3

The band rock and rolled, but it wasn't the best...
 Am                    F                          
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Nearly all of them, all sound like the rest...
 Am                    E                          
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Some girls look pretty, but you were the best...
 Am                    F                          
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That's why I came home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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 Am                                             
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|0h3-----------------|


VERSE 4

Got home about daylight, I been gone too long...
 Am                    F                          
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Woke up at eleven, and saw you were gone...
 Am                    E                          
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So I drank lots of coffee, and wrote you this song...
 Am                    F                          
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I wish I'd have been home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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I wish I'd have been home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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I wish I'd have been home with you...
 E                    Am                         
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 Am                                         
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