Shotgun House
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Afinação: E A D G B ECapotraste: Sem capotraste
"Shotgun House" - Eddie Noack
A-side on the single "Shotgun House / Where Do You Go (When You Say Goodnight)" (1961)
Track 25 of 65 on the album "Presenting Eddie Noack"
Link to song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbRXaTus3VU
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C F C
I grew up in a shotgun house, just a stringy-haired millhand's kid
C D7 G7
No numbers on the front, they all look the same and you had to know where you lived
C F C
So we'd count the houses 'til we came to ours and it always worked out right
F C G7 C
But somehow, my hard-working millhand pa lost count every Saturday night
[Chorus]
F C
He'd holler Ma's name to the top of his lungs and raise up an awful fuss
F D7 G7
Ma'd tell us kids we'd better be still if we knew what was good for us
C F C
So sometimes he'd find his way back home to his kids and his loving spouse
F C G7 C
But many was a night he slept under the porch of somebody else's shotgun house
[Piano Solo]
F C G7 C
[Verse 2]
C F C
The years have passed and I've grown up, I've got a family all my own
C D7 G7
But things don't seem much different now, we call a shotgun house our home
C F C
I work hard at the mill all week and I try to treat my family right
F C G7 C
But just like my pappy, there's too many bars on the way home Saturday night
[Chorus]
F C
So I stand outside and I holler real loud, "Honey, won't you turn on the light?"
F D7 G7
But this sweet little woman won't guide me in and it looks like a rainy night
C F C
If I walk in the wrong door, I might get killed and I ain't neither man nor mouse
F C G7 C
But when I wake up, I'm gonna paint me a sign on the front of my shotgun house
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