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Nanci Griffith - Listen To The Radio (Nanci Griffith)
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To get a closer sound to the recorded version
you can play the chords as per the suggestion below:
C as a Cadd9 - x32033
G chord played - 320033
Nancy also throws in some Dsus2 & Dsus4 chords
for some colour as well in live versions (xx0230 & xx0233)
[Intro]
G C G D (x2)
[Verse]
G C D
I am leaving Mississippi in the evening rain
G C D
These Delta towns wear satin gowns and the high-beam frame
G C D
Loretta Lynn guides my hands through the radio
G C D
Where would I be at times like these without the songs Loretta wrote?
[Chorus]
C G D
'Cause when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
C G D
When you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o
[Verse]
G C D
I left a handsome two-steppin' good ole' boy in Tennessee
G C D
Now he's sittin' on the sofa he's lookin' for his supper wond'rin' what's become of me
G C D
I got a 00-18 Martin guitar in the back seat of the car
G C D
Hey I am leaving Mississippi with the radio on
[Chorus]
C G D
'Cause when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
C G D
When you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
It's the radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o
[Instrumental]
G C D (x4)
[Verse]
G C D
There's a moon across the border in the Louisiana sky
G C D
I smell the Ponchatrain I hear Silver Wings and then away Merle Haggard flies
G C D
That good old boy will find a band of gold on the stereo
G C D
Hey then my mama's gonna call say where's she gone, he'll say down the road with the radio on
[Chorus]
C G D
And when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
C G D
And when you can't find a friend, you still got the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, no listen to the radio
G C D G C D
The radio - o, and it's down the road you go
[Outro]
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio
G C D
The radio - o, listen to the radio (Repeat and Fade)
