Guitar Man Chords

by Elvis Presley
31,176 views, added to favorites 1,648 times
Difficulty: intermediate
Capo: no capo
Author nate.kelmes [a] 53.
1 contributor total, last edit on Jan 20, 2019

Chords

E
D
A
C#7
F#7
G#7
D#7
G7

Strumming

There is no strumming pattern for this song yet. Create and get +5 IQ
E  - -  -  -  -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -  - - -  -
B  8s9  9  9  9  - 8s9  9  9  9  - 8s9  9  9  9- - 8 8  7  6
G  9s10 10 10 10 - 9s10 10 10 10 - 9s10 10 10 10- –9 9  8  6 
D  - -  -  -  -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
A  - -  -  -  -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
E  - -  -  -  -  - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 
[Verse 1]
               C#7
Well I quit my job down at the car wash 
               C#7
I left my momma a goodbye note 
               C#7
By sundown I’d left Kingston 
               C#7
With my guitar under my coat 
              F#7
I hitch-hiked all the way down to Memphis 
              F#7
Got a room at the Y.M.C.A. 
        C#7
For the next three weeks I went a hauntin’ them night clubs 
        C#7
Lookin’ for a place a play 
       G#7
Well I thought my pickin’ would set ‘em on fire 
    F#7                            C#7
But nobody wanted to hire a guitar man 
 
[Verse 2]
                    C#7
Well I nearly ‘bout starved to death down in Memphis 
                    C#7
I run outta money and luck 
                    C#7
So I bummed me a ride down to Macon, Georgia 
                    C#7
On a overloaded poultry truck 
             F#7
I thumbed on down to Panama City 
             F#7
Started pickin’ out some of them all-night bars 
C#7
Hopin’ I could make myself a dollar 
C#7
Makin’ music on my guitar 
          G#7
I got the same old story at them all night piers 
      F#7
There ain’t no room around here for a guitar man 
 
[Bridge]
N.C.
We don’t need no guitar man, son
 
[Verse 3]
     F#7
So I slept in the hobo jungles 
     F#7
I bummed a thousand miles of track 
      C#7
Til I found myself in Mobile, Alabama 
      C#7
In a club they call “Big Jack’s” 
         F#7
A little four piece band was jammin’ 
         F#7
So I took my guitar and I sat in 
  D#7
I showed ‘em what a band would sound like 
       G#7
with a swingin’ little guitar man 
 
[Bridge]
N.C.
Show ‘em son
 
[Solo]
C#7 / / /  F#7 / / /  C#7 / / /  C#7
C#7 / / /  C#7 / / /  F#7 / / /  C#7
G#7 / F#7 /  C#7 / / /  C#7 F#7 G7 G#7
 
[Verse 4]
                      C#7
So if you ever take a trip down to the ocean 
                      C#7
Find yourself down around Mobile 
                      C#7
Well make it out to a club called “Jack’s” 
                      C#7
If you got a little time to kill 
     F#7
Just follow that crowd of people 
     F#7
You’ll wind up out on his dance floor 
C#7
Diggin’ the finest little five piece group 
C#7
Up and down the Gulf of Mexico 
    G#7
And guess who’s leadin’ that five piece band 
F#7
Wouldn’t you know it’s that swingin’ little guitar man 
 
[End]
C#7             F#7             C#7            C#7
      Yeah   Yeah            guitarman 
X
By helping UG you make the world better... and earn IQ
Create correction
Please rate this tab
 
×
Guitar Man – Elvis Presley
How to play
"Guitar Man"
Font
Transpose