Guy Clarke “Baby took a limo to Memphis”

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know the chord progression for this song? I can’t find any tab or the chords anywhere on line.

[GnLguy]

@Jon28 wrote:

Does anyone know the chord progression for this song? I can’t find any tab or the chords anywhere on line.

Here is a cover of the song that has some closeups of the singer’s guitar that you can see what he is doing. Looks like a 3 chord song in E. One place he is sliding a D chord up 2 frets to E.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaT4Pj-YAZk

After listening to what I suppose is the original version (link below), I think its in A. Get the progression in E from the video above and then transpose it to A

[Anonymous]

I tried to do that yesterday before I posted here. I know he starts off in E and goes to D but i’m not sure what he goes to before the D, in the cover video. I can’t belive there are no tabs or chord arrangements on any of the tab sites for this song.

[GnLguy]

@Jon28 wrote:

I tried to do that yesterday before I posted here. I know he starts off in E and goes to D but i’m not sure what he goes to before the D, in the cover video. I can’t belive there are no tabs or chord arrangements on any of the tab sites for this song.

I’ll look at it again over the weekend and see if I can figure it out.

If you don’t have it installed already, you should consider downloading the VLC player. You can set loop points in a video or mp3, slow it down and it is still in pitch – that may help you to transcribe this.

[Deluxe Strat]

I have a program that calculates the chords of songs, I ran it though there and it came up as just E and A
hope this helps
Butch

[ChordGuy]

This is just E, A, B, A 1 4 5 in the key of E
The D you see in the cover version on the video is being used as a little colour and not present in the original.
It is giving the sound of a dominant seventh in the key of E. They then slide the D chord form up 2 trets to give another E chord. Actually E/D, E with a D note in the bass.
The original version on U-Tube uses a Mandolin and is a little straighter than the covers I watched.
If there is a particular version that has a signature lick or somthing yo would like transcribed let me know.

Gordo

[ChordGuy]

the lick used through this is song is B A G G# E (The G to G# is hammered on some versions bent on others)
E / / / / (Guy’s original version trills it and doesn’t play the B often)
She did not want to drive
E / / / /
She did not want to fly
E / / / /
She did not want to wait
E / / / / (D D E/D E/D)
For a bus to come by

E / / / /
She did not want to hassle
E / / / /
She did not want to hurry
E / / / /
She didn’t want to know
E / / / / (D D E/D E/D)
What is cost, don’t worry

Chorus
A / / / /
Baby took a limo to Memphis
E / / / /
Seemed like the thing to do
A / / / /
Baby took a limo to Memphis
B / / / /
She did it ’cause she wanted to

She was not lookin’ back
She was lookin’ good
She was not in the mood
To be knockin’ on wood

She knows what she wants
She knows how to get it
She knows what it takes
Just do it, don’t regret it

A / / / /
The shortest distance between two towns
G B (7) ( G F#)
Is ridin’ in a limo with the windows down

Don’t ask why she’s going
She might let you know
Don’t ask when she’s coming back
’cause she don’t know

Don’t let her fool you
She’s nobody’s fool
She knows what’s tacky
She knows what’s cool

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