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Straight Outta Time by John Hiatt
Straight Outta Time
Tuning:E A D G B E
Capo:no capo
At least one of the guitars on the album is in dropped-D tuning, but
the acoustic is standard tuned (I think), so it sounds cool like that
if you're playing it by yourself.
[Intro]
D G D G
[Verse]
D G
Hot summer night, I was counting all the starlight on your skin
D G C
Airtight, as I watched you breathing out, I'm breathing in
D G
By the lake, so humid that the moon was getting wet
D G C
For our sake, the crickets started playing their castanets
D G
Like a gypsy, you stole me from a child into a man
D G C
It never hit me: I've been running ever since I took a stand
D G
And this love, like a Spanish moss a-hanging from the trees
A Em Em/F# G
Just swaying in the breeze, like a sweet mem-o-ry
[Chorus]
D C G
Running straight outta time, straight outta time
D C G
Running straight outta time, straight outta time
D G
Since you were mine
[Verse]
D G
That autumn chill, sent a shiver, girl, it shook us to the bone
D G C
And we still, had February frozen on the phone
D G
Spring thaw, would it find us with our lips frozen blue?
D G C
Love calls, but do we really live the time we're running through?
D G
Or like a dream, do we let it die and drift away to sleep
D G C
Until it screams like an echo in the history books you keep
D G
'Cause that stream, running from the corners of my mind
A Em Em/F# G
Well looking back I find, like a river it unwinds
[Chorus]
D C G
Running straight outta time, straight outta time
D C G
Running straight outta time, straight outta time
[Bridge]
A
Running straight outta time just like an old man's fiddle
G
Looking for the dance; gonna meet me in the middle
A
I'm never gonna figure out the way that I feel -
Em Em/F# G D
Running straight outta time, but my love's still real
[Solo]
D G
D G C
D G
D G C
[Verse]
D G
Now I see you, you're looking pretty in your summer dress
D G C
I can almost feel you, as you clutch your little locket to your breast
D G
Looking down at the picture, girl, you know you're looking fine
D G
Is it me? Was I ever in your heart or on your mind?
D G
Cause I'm running outta time
D G N.C.
I'm running straight outta time Were you ever mine?
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Main riff:
D + + + G + +(C) +
|-0---2-----------0-2p0---0-2p0---|-3----------------(3-3---3)------|
|-3---3-----------3-3---3-3-3---3-|-3----------------(3-3---3)------|
|-2---2-----------2-2---2-2-2---2-|-0----------------(0-0---0)------|
|-0---0-----------0-0---0-0-0---0-|-0----------------(2-2---2)------|
|---------------------------------|-2----------------(3-3---3)------|
|---------------------------------|-3-------------------------------|
Notation used:
+ = Beat marker
p = Pull-off
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