Tunica Motel by Tony Joe White
Key: F#mF#m | Capo: 0fr |  Left-Handed 

    


[Chords]
Verse 1
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Monday looked like a downer
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Tuesday looked like rain
       E
A bad altitude
      B7               F#m
And I knew I needed a change
Verse 2
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Head out on the highway
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Cruising way down south
    E
I knew a little place
         B7                      F#m
Where we might could work it all out
Chorus 1
D5       E                   F#m
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
        B5                       E      F#m
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel
Verse 3
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Just outside of Memphis,
F#m     F#m7
Highway 61
E                   B7
Sleepy little town down by the
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Mississippi River
Verse 4
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I'm gonna lay out on a houseboat
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Until my hide turns brown
E
Ain't gonna move 'till the
B7               F#m
Evening sun goes down
Chorus 2
         D5          E                         F#m
Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
 B5                      E      F#m
Anything you need at the Tunica Motel
Verse 5]
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I find myself at midnight
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Moving to the back porch blues
    E             B7     
The guitar cries, telling me
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About the hard times
Verse 6]
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Something moves in the shadows
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Giving me a little chill
             E
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
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Walking out across the field
Chorus 3
             D5             E                      F#m
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale
B5                     E      F#m
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel