Chords for Muscle shoals

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ Dwayne Allman of course came [Eb] into most of the shows and wanted a gig.
So he put up [Bb] his pup tent on my parking lot at the studio [Eb] and finally I [Bb] gave him his shot.
When Dwayne showed up, he was probably [Eb] one of the first guys with [Bb] long hair and kind
of a hippie look.
[D] What really made him stand out [Eb] was he was a wonderful [Bb] guitar player.
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[Eb] _ _ _ _ I had never heard a slide guitar played like Dwayne [Ebm] Allman could play.
[B] _ _
_ _ Dwayne had been in Los Angeles, had a [E] group called the Hourglass with his brother Greg.
They signed us on this big [B] contract and they wouldn't let us play anywhere.
I think the first year we were there we played like three concerts.
[F] So he finally said, hey I've had it with [Ab] this place, I'm leaving.
And he wound up in Muscle Shoals.
But right before he left, I talked him into going horseback riding with me because we
weren't doing anything.
Finally went out there and I said, listen, we go from the barn out to the field, we got
across a paved road.
I said, the horse is shod.
He said, what?
He's got shoes on, you know?
And if he slips, he'll bust both of his butts.
So don't give him [E] any reins.
_ And guess what happened?
[N] And he hit right here.
_ He couldn't play.
_ And he wouldn't let me in his house for about six weeks.
And I mean, that was terrible.
Because I mean, growing up without a father, he was somewhat of a father figure to me,
even though he was only a year and 18 days older.
_ So it came his birthday, November 20th.
And I went out and bought the first Taj Mahal record and a bottle of Coruscant pills.
He had this cold, he had his [B] arm in a sling, he was pissed off at the world.
And I did what I could do.
I put it down in front of his door, had it wrapped up and everything.
And I knocked on the door and ran.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I guess about two and a half [B] hours later, my [Am] phone rings and it's him.
He says, get over [E] here, Babe Ralph, quick. _ _
And Babe Ralph, he called [B] me that baby brother,
[Am] _ _ _
[E] endearing _ handle he had for me. _ _
_ [B] _ He said, man, check this out.
[E] He'd been listening to Jesse Davis play for Taj [B] Mahal.
He went and slapped.
[E] _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ He said, man, I've dumped out all them [A] pills.
And I washed the label off the bottle. _
[E] Check this out, he's got his hand still in the sling, he's going. _ _
You know, [B] and he's just already [A] killing it, you know. _
[E] _ I've _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] still got that bottle, by the way, somehow. _ _
When Dwayne came here, he was on the Wilson Pickett session that we did.
There was always a slight problem when we would go out,
all of us white boys with a black artist, that we'd get looks.
_ _ OK?
But there was nothing as bad as going out with a long-haired hippie
with us white boys.
They couldn't stand that, right? _ _
And so both of them stayed back.
So they went on lunch break and my brother went up to Wilson and he said,
_ man, why don't you cut Hey Jude, you know, the Beatles song?
At that point, I was mostly trying to create
an original career at Wilson Pickett, right?
My songs.
Pickett and I in unison both [Gb] said, look, are you crazy?
We're going to cover the Beatles. _ _
And of course, Dwayne said, exactly.
While we were gone, Dwayne changed our whole session.
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_ [Gb] _ _ When you get to the [Db] vamp, it goes into [Bbm] just an [Gb] unbelievable groove.
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ _
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_ _ Dwayne Allman was [E] playing such great guitar feels
[B] that something happened in [Gb] that vamp. _ _ _ _
_ And all of a sudden there was [E] Southern Rhyme.