e: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 08:59:36 -0800
From: Gene McKenna
Subject: CRD: w/waits_tom/I_Wish_I_was_in_New_Orleans.crd
Tom Waits: I wish I was in New Orleans
Words and Music: Tom Waits
Album: A Japanese import — (Sorry, I can’t read Katakana,
but it probably says Tom-u Waits-u)
I included a line for the beat, which in most places
is obvious, but there is one measure that has two beats
and that threw me when I went to write it down.
Figuring out the words for this one is as challenging as
the music. I left «—-» in a few spots. Anyone speak Waits?
There is one chord whose correct name somewhat eludes me.
After checking with Paul Zimmerman’s chord theory page on
Olga, I think it is Ebdim7, which would be Eb Gb Bbb Dbb
or Eb Gb A C.
GENE
Intro:
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4
C C9 F C
C Am7 D7 Dm7 G
C C9 F Em7 Ebdim7
C G7 C G7
C C9 F Cadd9
Well I wish I was in New Orleans
C Am7 Dm7 G7
I can see it in my dreams
C C9 F Cadd9
Arm in arm down Bur gun dy
1 2 3 4 1 2 ( last measure, in 2/4 )
C Am7 Dm7 G7
A bottle and my friends and
C C9 F G7
me. Hoist up afew tall cool ones play some
1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 ( standard beat, long words )
C Am7 D7
pool and listen to that tenor saxophone
G G7
callin me home.
And I can hear the band begin
When the Saints Go Marchin’ In
By the whiskers on my chin
New Orleans I’ll be there
I’ll drink you under the table
—- red nose, go for a walk
the old haunts what I wants
is red beans and rice
And wear the dress I like so well
Meet me at the old saloon
Make sure there’s a Dixie Moon
New Orleans I’ll be there
And deal the cards, roll the dice
If it ain’t that ole ———
————— me and you
Sam Jones and all?????
And I wish I was in New Orleans
I can see it in my dreams
Arm in arm down Burgundy
(rit) A bottle and, my friends and me,
New Orleans I’ll be there
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