Here´s another underrated song from the underrated “Sunstorm” album, Warner Brothers, 1972, CD re-release Line Records, 1990.
Hee ah ha ha – you don´t need words for a lonesome song, but it´s nice to have them and a fine melody and a great arrangement! Some fantastic lines in the song – your picks may be different from mine…
Single bass-notes C-D hammer on E-G into (F) (C) (G7) (C) (F) (C) (G7) (C)
You got to (Dm)know (G) how to hold a (C)stogie, (Am)
Keeping it (Dm)dry (G) through the wind and the (C)rain, (C/B) (Am)
Then you move out a(Dm)long (G) to Cali(C)fornia, (Em7/B) (Am7)
You and (Dm)me (G) and the seasons (C)changed, (Em7/B) (Am7)
You and (Dm)me (G) and the seasons (C)changed.
Gonna learn to (Dm)live, (G) not learn to (C)die, (Am)
I'm a-gonna(Dm) lean like a (G)willow on the (C)sky. (C/B) (Am)
I found a (Dm)girl (G) who yearns to (C)lie (Em7/B) (Am7)
With a lonesome (Dm)head (G) on her lonesome (C)thigh, (Em7/B) (Am7)
With a lonesome (Dm)head (G) on her lonesome (C)thigh.
I'm singing (F)hee (G) ah ha (Am)ha,
You don't need (Dm)words (G)for a lonesome (C)song.
(Dm)Hee (G) ah ha
(Am)ha,
Is there (F)one more going (Em)home for (F)you, (G)lonesome (C)John?
Just (F)one more going (C)home for (G7)you, lonesome (C)John?
(F) (C) (G7) (C)
It's been so(Dm)long (G) since I've seen (C) Angel Rain, (Am)
They no (Dm)long(G)er make that (C)kind. (C/B) (Am)
All the colour's (Dm)gone (G) to the green hills, (C)darling, (Em7/B) (Am7)
All of my (Dm)life (G) I was colour(C)blind, (C/B) I (Am)know it now, (Am/G)
All of my (Dm)life, (G) I've been colour(C)blind.
I'm singing (F)hee (G) ah ha (Am)ha,
You don't need (Dm)words (G)for a lonesome (C)song.
(Dm)Hee (G) ah ha
(Am)ha,
Is there (F)one more going (Em)home for (F)you, (G)lonesome (C)John?
Just (F)one more going (C)home for (G7)you, lonesome (C)John?
(F) (C) (G7) (C) (F) (C) (G7) (C) (C9)(C)(Cj7)(C9)(C)(Cj7)(C)
© John Stewart, All Rights Reserved
Charlie Woodward, janhauenstein@gmx.de & Art Faller
October 2004