WAITS TOM - "I Wish I Was In New Orleans" Tablature

e: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:59:36 -0800
From: Gene McKenna <mckenna@bluedot.com>
Subject: CRD: w/waits_tom/I_Wish_I_was_in_New_Orleans.crd

Tom Waits: I wish I was in New Orleans
Words and Music: Tom Waits
Album: A Japanese import - (Sorry, I can't read Katakana,
but it probably says Tom-u Waits-u)

I included a line for the beat, which in most places
is obvious, but there is one measure that has two beats
and that threw me when I went to write it down.

Figuring out the words for this one is as challenging as
the music. I left "----" in a few spots. Anyone speak Waits?

There is one chord whose correct name somewhat eludes me.
After checking with Paul Zimmerman's chord theory page on
Olga, I think it is Ebdim7, which would be Eb Gb Bbb Dbb
or Eb Gb A C.

GENE

Intro:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
C C9 F C
C Am7 D7 Dm7 G
C C9 F Em7 Ebdim7
C G7 C G7


C C9 F Cadd9
Well I wish I was in New Orleans

C Am7 Dm7 G7
I can see it in my dreams

C C9 F Cadd9
Arm in arm down Bur gun dy

1 2 3 4 1 2 ( last measure, in 2/4 )
C Am7 Dm7 G7
A bottle and my friends and


C C9 F G7
me. Hoist up afew tall cool ones play some

1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ( standard beat, long words )
C Am7 D7
pool and listen to that tenor saxophone

G G7
callin me home.


And I can hear the band begin
When the Saints Go Marchin' In
By the whiskers on my chin
New Orleans I'll be there

I'll drink you under the table
---- red nose, go for a walk
the old haunts what I wants
is red beans and rice

And wear the dress I like so well
Meet me at the old saloon
Make sure there's a Dixie Moon
New Orleans I'll be there

And deal the cards, roll the dice
If it ain't that ole ---------
--------------- me and you
Sam Jones and all?????

And I wish I was in New Orleans
I can see it in my dreams
Arm in arm down Burgundy
(rit) A bottle and, my friends and me,
New Orleans I'll be there



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