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Jackson Browne - The Long Way Around Acoustic Tabs

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The Long Way Around Acoustic Tabs

(ver. 1)
Jackson Browne
[Intro Tab]
   F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|-0---------------|-0----------------|----------------|-0-------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|-1---------1----|---------------|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-----2----------|----2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|-------------3--|-------3-------|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|--------3-------|-----------0h2-|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1--------------|-1-------------|

[Verse Tab]
   F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|


[Verse 1]
  F          Cadd11  Dm7       Csus4 Bbmaj7
I don't know what to say about these days
    F      Cadd11 Dm7      Csus4  Bbmaj7                     
I'm seeing people changing in the strangest ways
  F         Cadd11 Dm7     Csus4                                                                    
Even in the richer neighborhoods
Bbmaj7                                                                                       
People don't know when they've got it good
        F       Cadd11 Dm7         Csus4  Bbmaj7                                             
They've got the envy,  and they've got it bad


[Instrumental Fill]

Here's one way to play that little fill that comes after some verses:

   F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|------0----------|-0-------3-------|-----0---------|---------------|
B|------------3----|-----------------|-----1---------|---------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|-----2---------|---------------|
D|----------------|------------------|---------------|---------------|
A|-3----3-----2----|-0---------------|---------------|-----------0h2-|
E|-----------------|---------3-------|-1-------------|---------------|


And another way:

   F         Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4    Bbmaj7
e|-------------------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|
B|--------5-----3----|-5-------8-------|-----1---------|--------------|
G|-------------------|-----------------|-----0---------|--------------|
D|--------7-----5----|-7-------10------|--3------------|--------------|
A|-(3)----7-----5----|-7-------10------|-(3)-----------|--------------|
E|-------------------|-----------------|---------------|--------------|

The normal verse chords continue underneath, so you can also just continue to play those instead.
   F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|


[Verse 2]
F            Cadd11  Dm7      Csus4   Bbmaj7                                               
When I was a kid everything I did was trying to be free
F              Cadd11 Dm7    Csus4         Bbmaj7                                            
Running up and down   Tinsel Town with the fire inside of me
   F        Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4      Bbmaj7                                               
My planet's all in retrograde, the best of all my plans got laid
  F       Cadd11      Dm7     Csus4                                                                    
I made my breaks, and some mistakes
Bbmaj7                                                                                             
Just not the ones people think I made


[Chorus Tab]
   F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|-0---------------|-0----------------|-----------------|-0---------------|
B|------------1----|-------------1----|------------1----|------------1----|
G|-----0-----------|------0--------0--|-1---------------|------2----------|
D|--------------0--|------------------|------3-------3--|----3---------3--|
A|-3-------2-------|-0----------------|----3------------|----------3------|
E|-----------------|----------3-------|-1-------1-------|-1---------------|
                                                                                                  
[Chorus]
          F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4    Bbmaj7
Now I'm a long         way     gone
          F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4  Bbmaj7                                                 
Down this wild       road I'm   on
              F       Cadd11 Dm7     Csus4   Bbmaj7                                
It's going to take me        where I'm    bound
             F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4   Bbmaj7                                                                 
But it's the long       way  a-      round


[Instrumental Fill] x2


[Verse 3]
     F       Cadd11  Dm7             Csus4      Bbmaj7                                       
It's so hard keeping track of what's gone wrong
    F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4        Bbmaj7                                
The covenant unravels,   and the news just rolls along
        F       Cadd11 Dm7     Csus4   Bbmaj7                                                
I could feel my memory letting go some two or three disasters ago
     F       Cadd11    Dm7      Csus4                                                                     
It's hard to say which did more ill                                         
Bbmaj7                                 Bbmaj7
Citizens United or the Gulf oil spill
                                                                                                           
[Chorus]
          F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4    Bbmaj7
And I'm a long         way     gone
          F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4  Bbmaj7                                                            
Down this wild       road I'm   on
              F       Cadd11 Dm7     Csus4   Bbmaj7                                                   
It's going to take me        where I'm    bound
             F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4   Bbmaj7                                                       
But it's the long       way  a-      round

                                            
[Instrumental Fill] x2


[Verse 4]
     F     Cadd11    Dm7     Csus4     Bbmaj7                                                         
It's never been that hard to buy a gun
            F      Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4      Bbmaj7                                                
Now they'll sell a Glock 19 to just about anyone
    F        Cadd11 Dm7    Csus4                                                                        
The seeds of trage- dy are there
   Bbmaj7                                                             
In what we feel we have the right to bear
   F         Cadd11   Dm7     Csus4                                                        
To watch our children come to harm
Bbmaj7                                                                 
There in the safety of our arms
     F                                                                      
With all we disagree about
    Bbmaj7             A7               F                                         
The passions burn, the heart goes out

[Chorus]                                                                                          
             F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4    Bbmaj7
And we're a long         way     gone
          F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4    Bbmaj7                                                         
Down this wild       road we're   on
              F       Cadd11 Dm7     Csus4   Bbmaj7                                
It's going to take us        where we're    bound
             F   Cadd11 Dm7  Csus4   Bbmaj7                                                   
But it's the long       way  a-    round


[Instrumental Fill] x4


[~Outro~] x 8+
   F       Cadd11    Dm7     Csus4     Bbmaj7
e|-0---------------|-----------------|--------------|--------------|
B|-----------------|-1---------------|-----------1--|--------------|
G|--------------0--|--------------0--|-2------------|--------------|
D|-----------------|-----------------|--------3-----|--0-----------|
A|-3-------2-------|-0---------------|--------------|--------------|
E|-----------------|---------3-------|-1------------|--------------|


F Cadd11 Dm7 Csus4 Bbmaj7 x8            
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