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Chords/Tabulature for
The Old Country Waltz

Submitted by: Malc Brookes (malc@malbro.demon.co.uk)

Notes about this song:

  • I don't know if there is such a chord as C12, I called it that mainly to differentiate from a standard C. Basically it has the 5th added, but an octave higher, making it a 12th. That's why I called it C12. 
Chords:
  C12 x32013
  C/B x2x010
  C/A X0x010

Intro:
  G / / D / / G / / G7 / /
  C / / Em / / Am / / Am / /
  C / / Em / / D / / C12 / /
  G / / D / / C C/B C/A G / /

Verse:
            G            D           G     G7
  They were playing that old country waltz

          C         Em              Am     Am
  In this empty bar echoing off the wall,

         C             Em            D          C12
  When I first got the bad news that you set me free,

      G               D           C C/B C/A G
  The band played the old country waltz to  me.

Verse:
          G (rest)     D (rest)    G      G7
  Well, I loved, and I lost, and I cried,
  The day that the two of us died,
  Ain't got no excuses, I just want to ride,
  While the band plays the old country waltz.

Instrumental section (as intro):

Bridge:
          C          C
  Out the window the moon shines

         G            G7
  On the roofs of the cars,

          C          C           G      D
  While I knock down tequila and sa--a--alt,

          G              D           C C/B C/A G
  And the band plays the old country waltz.

Verse:
            G (rest)         D (rest)    G      G7
  And we're playing it, that old country waltz,
  In this empty bar echoing off the wall,
  Ain't got no excuses, we just want to play
  That good old country waltz,

  I ain't got no excuses, I just want to play
  That good old country waltz,

       G        D       Em   C   G
  That good old country waltz.
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