Georgia Lee Acordes

Song: Georgia Lee
Artist: Tom Waits
Composers: Tom Waits & Kathleen Brennan
Album: Mule variations
 
Tabbed by DJ  22nd Nov 2012
 
TIME SIGNATURE: 3/4 time
 
CAPO: 1st fret
(Will then sound in the recorded key of Db)
 
Chord names & fret positions are relative to the capo:
C      = x32010    Am  = x02210    Em/B  = x22000
G7sus4 = 330011    C/G = 332010    Cmaj7 = x32000
G7     = 320001    C/B = x2xxxx    A7    = x02020
F      = 133211    C/D = xx0010    Dm7   = xx0211
 
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[Intro]
   C           G7sus4  G7    C
|  /  /  /  |  /   /   /  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
[Verse 1]
      C        F   C          Am       F   C/G
Well, cold was the night, and hard was the ground, 
     F              C              G7sus4   G7
They found her in a small grove of trees,
    C            F   C           Am      F   C/G
And lonesome was the place where Georgia was found,
          F           C          G7sus4
She's too young to be out on the street
 
[Chorus]
    G7         C             C    C/B    F
Why wasn't God watching?  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C             C     C/B   F
Why wasn't God listening? |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C         G7sus4  G7   C    C/D  C
Why wasn't God there for Geor  - gia  Lee?
 
[Verse 2]
             C        F    C
Ida said she couldn't keep Georgia...
        Am           F  C/G
...From dropping out of school,
       F         C           G7sus4   G7
"I was doing the best that I could,
        C        F    C           Am       F    C/G
Oh, but she just kept running a - way from this world,
       F              C             G7sus4
These children are so hard to raise good!"
 
[Chorus]
    G7         C             C    C/B    F
Why wasn't God watching?  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C             C     C/B   F
Why wasn't God listening? |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C         G7sus4  G7   C    C/D  C
Why wasn't God there for Geor  - gia  Lee?
 
[Bridge]
G7sus4  G7   C     Em/B  F       C
Close   your eyes, and  count to ten,
    G7sus4  G7   C  Em/B F         G7sus4   G7
And I---    will go and  hide, but then...
Cmaj7      A7         Dm7         G7
Be sure to find me, I want you to find me,
          C           F           C           F
And we'll play ...all over, we'll play ...all over,
      C           F        C      G7sus4
We'll play ...all over a - gain
 
[Verse 3]
G7        C       F   C
There's a toad in the witchgrass,
          Am      F   C/G
There's a crow in the corn,
     F            C            G7sus4   G7
Wild flowers on a cross by the road,
    C         F  C          Am         F   C/G
And somewhere a  baby ...is crying for her mom,
       F               C             G7sus4
As the hills turn from green back to gold
 
[Chorus]
    G7         C             C    C/B    F
Why wasn't God watching?  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C             C     C/B   F
Why wasn't God listening? |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C         G7sus4  G7   C
Why wasn't God there for Geor  - gia  Lee?
 
[Chorus]
    G7         C             C    C/B    F
Why wasn't God watching?  |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C             C     C/B   F
Why wasn't God listening? |  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |
 
    G7         C         G7sus4  G7   C
Why wasn't God there for Geor  - gia  Lee?
 
[Coda]
   F           C           G7sus4  G7     C
|  /  /  /  |  /  /  /  |  /   /   /  |   /  ||
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