THAT DON'T MAKE IT EASY LOVIN' ME
Written by Dierks Bentley, Brett Beavers, Deric Ruttan
Tune down one semitone - song is pitched in Eb
2 beats per chord
` = 2 beats
. = hold Beat-1
PROLOGUE:
Acoustic (detail charted separately)
E E6sus4 E7(no3rd) E6sus4
E E6sus4 N.C. `
Electric (* = RIFF detailed in TAB below)
E7* ` E7* `
E7* ` E7* `
INTRO:
E7 ` E7 `
E7 ` E7 `
We were
VERSE:
E7. ` ` `
Playin' out in Vegas when this lady pressed her way up to the
E7* ` E7* `
Stage I for-
E7. ` ` `
got what I was singin' when she met me with her meet-me-later
E7* ` E7* `
Gaze when she
A7 ` A7 `
Threw it on my mic stand I figured they were prob'ly double-
E D A7 `
Dees that might
REFRAIN-LONG:
E D A7. `
Make for a good story man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7* ` E7* `
Me one time I
VERSE:
E7 ` E7 `
Met one of my heroes and he made me feel real good that I was
E7 ` E7 `
There 'cos what-
E7 ` E7 `
ever he was smokin' man it had me spinnin' circles in my
E7 ` E7 `
Chair I fell a-
A7 ` A7 `
sleep on his bus in Texas but I woke up in Memphis Tennes-
E D A7 `
see that might
REFRAIN:
E D A7 `
Make for a good story man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7 `
Me but I got a
BRIDGE:
E D A7 `
Woman_____ let me tell you that she's
E D A7 `
Somethin'_____ you won't catch me doin'
E D A7 `
Nothin'__ to ever make her wanna
B7 `
Leave__ she
REFRAIN-2-SHORT:
D ` A7 `
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7 `
Me
SOLO:
A7 ` A7 ` E7 ` E7 `
A7 ` A7 ` B7 ` B7 `
LINK:
E E6sus4 E7(no3rd) E6sus4
When you're
VERSE:
E7 ` E7. `
Livin' on a bus and you fill it up with a bunch of real good timin'
E7* ` E7* `
Boys mix in ap-
E7 ` E7. `
plause and alco-hol and honky tonks you know we're bound to make some
E7 ` E7 `
Noise but this
A7 ` A7 `
Rake-and-ramblin' life helps me write the kind of songs I wanna
E D A7 `
Sing 'cos it
REFRAIN:
E D A7 `
Makes for real good stories man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7 `
Me but I got a
BRIDGE:
E D A7 `
Woman_____ let me tell you man she's
E D A7 `
Somethin'_____ you won't catch me doin'
E D A7 `
Nothin'__ to ever make her wanna
B7 `
Leave__ she
REFRAIN-2:
D ` A7 `
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7 ` E7 `
Me yeah she
REFRAIN-2:
D. ` A7. `
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7 ` E7 `
Me
LINK:
E7* ` E7* `
SOLO: (fade on repeat)
A7 ` A7 ` E7 ` E7 `
A7 ` A7 ` B7 ` B7 `
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CHORDS:
E7 A7 E D B7 E E6sus4 E7(no3rd)
E|--0---0---0---2---2--|--0----0-------0----|
B|--3---2---0---3---0--|--0----0-------0----|
G|--1---0---1---2---2--|--1----2-------4----|
D|--0---2---2---0---1--|--x----x-------x----| x = muted
A|--2---0---2-------2--|--2----4-------5----|
E|--0-------0----------|--0----0-------0----|
ELECTRIC-RIFF:
Maintain picking pattern throughout
1 e + a 2 e + a <- sixteenths count
d u d u d u d u <- down/up pick
E7 d u d d u u d d
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|-2-----------x-x-2-----------x-x-|-2-----------x-----2-------------|
A|---4-----5\4-x-x---4-----5\4-x-x-|---4-----5\4-x-------------------|
E|-------------x-x-------------x-x-|-------------x-3-b---3-b-0-------|
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\ = slide (legato) i = index
x = muted note m = middle
b = half-step bend r = ring
LICK leading into REFRAIN:
E D A7
1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a 1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|-------5---------------3---------|-------2-------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|-------------0-------------------|
D|-2/6---------6-\-4-----------4\2-|-4/5-----------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
m i m i m r i
