How to Play "The Tulsa Shuffle (revisited)" Guitar chords
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The Tulsa Shuffle (Revisited)
The Tractors
Chords:
G#dim7 403430
E9 020102
G/A 005433
Eb9 065660
D9 054550
Verse One:
D
Back before the Beatles, back before Elvis
G7 D
Back when Hank was just learnin' how to sing
Tulsa was dancin' to Bob and Johnny Lee Wills
A7
A thing they call "Western Swing"
D
Somethin' in the water, somethin' in the blood
G G#dim7
Somethin' 'bout the way the wind blows
D B7
It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing
E9 G/A D
And this am the way it goes (2, 3, 4)
Chorus (instrumental):
D G7 D A G7 D
Verse Two:
D G7 D
Up north in Chicago, you've got your authentic blues bands
E7 A7
Way down yonder in New Orleans, they've got a thing they call Dixieland
D G7 D
All around this whole wide world, there's one thing that everybody knows
B7 E7 G/A D
All God's children love the Tulsa shuffle, and this am the way it goes (2, 3, 4)
Chorus twice (instrumental):
D G7 D A G7 D
Verse Three:
D
I've been up, I've been down, headed straight and turned around
G7 D
I've been up a tree, out on a limb
E7 A7
Amused, abused, enlightened and confused, I've been lost and I've been born again
D G7 D
Through it all, when it's all said and done, There's one thing that everybody knows
B7 E7 G/A D
All God's children love the Tulsa shuffle, and this am the way it goes (2, 3, 4)
Chorus (instrumental to end):
D G7 D A G7 D
Eb9 D9
(Shuffle on, children, shuffle on)