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- From: indigo@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (Adam Schneider)
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- Subject: /c/Carpenter.Mary.Chapin/IFeelLucky.tab
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- I FEEL LUCKY (Mary-Chapin Carpenter & Don Schlitz)
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- [Actually in B; capo at the 7th fret]
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- E E E E E E E E
- [intro]
-
- E E
- Well I woke up this morning stumbled out of my rack
- E E
- I opened up the paper to the page in the back
- A A
- It only took a moment for my finger to find
- E E
- My daily dose of destiny, under my sign
- B B
- My eyes just about popped out of my head
- E [stop] n.c.
- It said "the stars are stacked against you girl, get back in bed"
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- A A E E
- I feel lucky, I feel lucky, yeah
- B B
- No Professor Doom gonna stand in my way
- E [stop] n.c. E E E E
- Mmmmm, I feel lucky today [instrumental]
-
- Well I strolled down to the corner, gave my numbers to the clerk
- The pot's eleven million so I called in sick to work
- I bought a pack of Camels, a burrito and a Barq's
- Crossed against the light, made a beeline for the park
- The sky began to thunder, wind began to moan
- I heard a voice above me saying, "girl, you better get back home"
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- But I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah
- No tropical depression gonna steal my sun away
- Mmmmm, I feel lucky today
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- A A E E B B E B
- [Guitar solo]
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- E [stop]
- Now eleven million later, I was sitting at the bar
- (D) E [stop]
- I'd bought the house a double, and the waitress a new car
- A [stop]
- Dwight Yoakam's in the corner, trying to catch my eye
- (D) E [stop]
- Lyle Lovett's right beside me with his hand upon my thigh
- (A) B [stop] B [stop]
- The moral of this story, it's simple but it's true
- E E7
- Hey the stars might lie, but the numbers never do
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- I feel lucky, oh oh oh, I feel lucky, yeah
- Hey Dwight, hey Lyle, boys, you don't have to fight
- Hot dog, I'm feeling lucky tonight
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- I feel lucky, brrrrr, I feel lucky, yeah
- Think I'll flip a coin, I'm a winner either way
- Mmmmmm, I feel lucky today
- E E E E A A E E B B E n.c. (F#9) (F9) E9 E
- [piano solo] [piano break] [crescendo] [stop]
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-
- TAB:
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- (Don't forget the capo on the 7th fret.)
-
- Play the E measures And the A measures
- like this: like this:
-
- |----------------| |----------------|
- |----------------| |----------------|
- |----------------| |2---2---2---2---|
- |2---2---2---2---| |2---4---2---4---|
- |2---4---2---4---| |0---0---0---0---|
- |0---0---0---0---| |----------------|
- ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ . ^ .
-
- I'm not sure about B. It might be x244xx and x264xx (like A), or it might
- just be x244xx.
-
- For the very beginning of the song, slide into the first E with 011xxx.
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-