Til i can gain control  Blue Rodeo

##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ###From: Darragh Egan ###Published by Jolly Cheeks Music (BMI)#from the CD, "Five Days In July" - 1993, Blue Rodeo Productions/WEA#drake@sgl.ists.ca (Drake Hirasawa) and##Check the notes at the bottom of the page to find out why.#INTRO:    | E   E4  | E   E4  | E   E4  | E   E4  ||[G]Just like the [D7]sun over the [G]mountain [G]tops


[C]You know I'll [C]always come a[G]gain


[C]You know I [C]love to spend my [G]morni[G]ngs


[D7]Like sunlight [D7]dancing on your [G]skin


[G]I've never gone so [D7]wrong as for telling [G]lies to [G]you


[C]What you [C]see is what I [G]am


[C]There is [C]nothing I could [G]hide from [G]you


[G]You see me [D7]better than I [G]can


CHORUS:  A          A                E       E


         Out on the road that lies before me now


         [C]There are some [C]turns where I will [G]spin


         [C]I only [C]hope that you can [G]hold me [G]now


         [D7]Til I can [D7]gain control a[G]gain


(INSTRUMENTAL VERSE)


And like a lighthouse, you must stand alone


Landmark a safe journey's end


No matter what sea I've been sailing on


I'll always come back home again.


(REPEAT CHORUS)


OUTRO:   A      A                 E       E


         I only hope that you can hold me now


         [D7]Til I can [D7]gain control a[G]gain


         |A    |A    |E    |E        |B7   |B7   |E    |E (stop)


E4 = 022200   B7 = x21202


Blue Rodeo make liberal use of suspended chords.  It adds flavour to the


song, especially if you are playing it solo on an acoustic guitar.  In this


song, the E4 chord pops up everywhere (aside from where it's noted in the


intro).  Here's one way to play a bar of E while incorporating this


embellishment.  I use this all through the song, particularly in the first


bar of two consecutive bars of E.  I tend to play a straight E chord in a


bar leading up to a B7 chord, and sometimes in the bars leading up to A


chords.  Throw it in wherever it feels comfortable for you.


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ie. At the asterisk, hammer your pinky finger on to the third string/second


fret to create an E4 chord.