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Dancing On The Highway

Elliott Smith
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
[Break into the solo!, its mostly just a powerful
[downstroke, and using your ring/middle fingers to
[kinda pluck/strum the B and G strings of various
[degrees and volumes. You kinda have to screw around
[and listen to the song, but here are the notes with
[the hammer-on he does. ! = make this string sound
[in the strumming! Listen to the song for the rhythm.
{sot}e|-0------------3*-----5------3------2*---1*---|-----|{eot}
{sot}B|-1*--1-h3-3-1-1*-----5*-----3*-----3*---2*---|-----|
G|-0*-----------0------6*-----4*-----4*---3*---|four-|
D|-2------------2------7------5------4----3----|times|
A|-3------------3------7------5------2----1----|-----|
E|-3-------------------5------3----------------|-----|{eot}
[OR...

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Arrangement source for Dancing On The Highway by Elliott Smith

{tuning: Standard (EADGBE)}
[C/G]
[C]
[Amaj7]
[G]
[Bm]
[Bbm]
[Am]
[G]

[C/G]here if you want [C]me
[Am]listening so c[G]lose from far aw[Bm]ay [Bbm]
memor[C/G]izing what you told [C]me
[Am]like a foreign[G]er on holid[Bm]ay [Bbm]
smi[C/G]ling at confus[C]ion
[Am]talking to the s[G]peaker that i s[Bm]ee [Bbm]
[C/G]dancing on the h[C]ighway
[Am]the broken line that [G]leads from you to m[Bm]e  [Bbm]

[C/G]well i'll be at my [C]station all [Amaj7]night
so come on [G]by, if you feel l[Bm]ike[Bbm]

[C/G]still here if you want [C]me
[Am]look at what i can d[G]o with empty time[Bm]   [Bbm]
[C/G]lost love and words that h[C]aunt me
[Am]isnt this flat [G]wrong, to sound subl[Bm]ime[Bbm]
[C/G]one strike in the m[C]ural
[Am]planting it to [G]place like someones ki[Bm]ss [Bbm]
[C/G]a dead calm on the t[C]ranquil
[Am]sea between you and [G]me, well thats all that [Bm]is [Bbm]

[C/G]but im here if you want [C]me     my[Amaj7] love
dancin[G]g on the high[Bm]way[Bbm]

[Break into the solo!, its mostly just a powerful
[downstroke, and using your ring/middle fingers to
[kinda pluck/strum the B and G strings of various
[degrees and volumes. You kinda have to screw around
[and listen to the song, but here are the notes with
[the hammer-on he does. ! = make this string sound
[in the strumming! Listen to the song for the rhythm.

  [C/G]          [C]       [Am]     [G]      [Bm]    [Bbm]
{sot}e|-0------------3*-----5------3------2*---1*---|-----|{eot}
{sot}B|-1*--1-h3-3-1-1*-----5*-----3*-----3*---2*---|-----|
G|-0*-----------0------6*-----4*-----4*---3*---|four-|
D|-2------------2------7------5------4----3----|times|
A|-3------------3------7------5------2----1----|-----|
E|-3-------------------5------3----------------|-----|{eot}

[C/G]your sun still [C]in    m[Amaj7]y sky
o[G]h why, oh [Bm]why   [Bbm]            [C/G]

[OR...

[C/G]your sun still [C]in    [Am]my sky
[G]oh why, oh [Bm]why   [Bbm]           [C/G]

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