Formatting is responsibility of submitter #----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE---------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the # #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. # #------------------------------------------------------------------------------# # Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 12:45:11 +0200 From: Juergen Grimminger Subject: Alan Jackson - Gone Country Gone Country - Alan Jackson --------------------------- (Bob McDill) As a source I used the submission of: theTone@stpc.wi.LeidenUniv.nl (theTone) of 20 Feb 1995. He explains that the riff is not the correct picking, so I looked into it: G                    D               C -----------|----------3---------------------------------------------| -----------|----------3-------------------------3-------------------| -------0---|----------0---------------------2---------------------0-| -0^2-------|------------------------0-----------------------0^2-----| -----------|----------------2^3---------------------3---------------| -----------|--3-----------------------------------------------------| Play the riff between | and | 4 times. Use 3rd and 4th finger for the G chord in the riff (3rd fret B and E string) and leave those fingers there thru the whole riff. Also play the G chord thru the whole song as follows: E A D G B E 3 x 0 0 3 3 G                        C         D            (riff) She's been playing that room on the strip for ten years in Vegas G                      C          D        (riff) Every night she looks in the mirror but she only ages G                                   C            D           (riff) She's been reading 'bout Nashville and all the records that everybody's buying G                  C    D          (riff) Says I'm a simple girl myself grew up on Long Island Em                D So she packs her bags to try her hand Em            D Says this might be my last chance G        C            D She's gone country, look at them boots G        C           D She's gone country, back to her roots G          C           D She's gone country, a new kind of suit Em/NC She's gone country, here she comes 2x riff G                      C            D          (riff) Well the folk scene's dead, but he's holding out in the village G                        C          D           (riff) He's been writing songs, speaking out against wealth and privilege G                               C         D          (riff) He says I don't believe in money, but a man could make him a killin' G                        C          D              (riff) Cause some of that stuff don't sound much different than Dylan Em                   D I hear down there it's changed you see Em                             D They're not as backwards as they used to be G        C            D He's gone country, look at them boots G        C           D He's gone country, back to his roots G          C           D He's gone country, a new kind of suit Em/NC He's gone country, here he comes Play chorus 1x G                  C          D            (riff) He commutes to L.A., but he's got a house in the valley G                            C              D          (riff) But the bills are pilling up and the pop scene just ain't on a rally G                           C            D              (riff) He says honey I'm a serious composer schooled in voice and composition G                        C         D                  (riff) But with the crime and the smog these days this ain't no place for children Em                   D Lord it sounds so easy, this shouldn't take long Em                   D Be back in the money in no time at all G        C            D He's gone country, look at them boots G        C           D He's gone country, back to his roots G          C           D He's gone country, a new kind of suit Em/NC He's gone country, here he comes 2x riff G          C           D Yeah he's gone country, a new kind of walk G          C           D He's gone country, a new kind of talk G        C            D He's gone country, look at them boots G           C           D He's gone country, oh back to his roots G          C     D He's gone country G          C He's gone country D           G         C Everybody's gone country D               G          C Yeah we've gone country D            G        C D   G C D Fade out The whole world's gone country