When I'm Dead and Gone

[D]  [G]  [A]

Guitar:
  [D]  [G]  [A]

[D] [G] [D] [G]

At the end of the G, on the top string, run down (this also repeats through the verse):

Guitar:

E: 3-3-3---2---0-|
B: 3-3-3---3---3-|
G: 0-0-0---0---0-|
D: 0-0-0---0---0-|

Mandolin:

E: 3-3-3---2---0-|
A: 2-2-2---2---0-|
D: 0-0-0---0---0-|
G: 0-0-0---0---0-|

[D]Oh I love you baby.  I [G]love you night and day.
[D]When I leave you baby. [G]Don't cry the night away.
[D]When I die don't you write. No [G]words upon my tomb.
[D]I don't believe I want to leave no [G]epitaph of doom.

[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead a[D]nd gone    [G]
[D]I want to leave some [A]happy woman livin[D]g on. [G]   [A]
[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead[D] and gone    [G]
[D]don't want nobody to [A]mourn beside my [G]grave.       [D]

(note – at the end of the first chorus couplet, G->A progression is much quicker than
other changes – same as in the outro)

[D]Oh my Melinda, she's out t[G]o get my hide.
[D]She's got a shotgun and her d[G]aughter by her side.
[D]Hey there ladies. Joh[G]nson's free.
[D]Who's got the love, who's got enough t[G]o keep a man like me?

[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead a[D]nd gone    [G]
[D]I want to leave some [A]happy woman livin[D]g on. [G]   [A]
[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead[D] and gone    [G]
[D]Don't want nobody to [A]mourn beside my [G]grave.       [D]

Instrumental / solo (to play this, you need a kazoo and to forget how to play the guitar
– otherwise, twiddling on the D pentatonic suffices)

[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead a[D]nd gone    [G]
[D]I want to leave some [A]happy woman livi[D]ng on.[G]  [A]
[D]Oh oh oh oh. Wh[A]en I'm dead[D] and gone    [G]
[D]Don't want nobody to [A]mourn beside my [G]grave.       [D]

D / / / G / A / (repeat & fade – or end on D)

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