Chords for Playing "Lonesome Road Blues" Jerry Reed style - Craig Dobbins

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Alright, now we're going to look at a little bit [Abm] of Lonesome Road [Bbm] Blues.
First [Abm] of all, you're going to get into G [G] tuning, _ _ _ like I am. _ _ _
That's your first string lowered from A to [D] D, _ your fifth string [G] lowered from A to G,
[Abm] and your sixth string lowered [D] from E to D.
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_ _ _ And the [Ab] main thing about this song [G] is the reed _ -saw _ -hammer pattern.
And remember that stopping the [Gm] strings with the side of your thumb,
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_ _ _ _ [G] _ resting your forearm [Ab] on the top [G] of the guitar, _ _
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to get that sound instead of this sound. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Abm] Guitar driving.
[Ab] _ Okay, [Abm] and then a little bit later on, there'll be [Bbm] the Scruggs-style [Abm] three-finger roll,
which [Ab] is thumb and two fingers, but that's what you call [Abm] the three-finger roll.
[Bb] And it's this thing here.
[G] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ It'll give you kind of a banjo sound. _
[Abm] And then in the middle of it, we'll change to the key of D, [D] which, _
_ _ even though [Abm] we're in G tuning, [Bb] you don't have [G] to play in [Ab] the key of G.
_ [Bb] _ [D] _ _ _
And there's a D chord, or there's actually like a D6 or a [G] D9 or something.
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ And G7 [G] or G9.
_ _ _ And [A] A7.
_ _ _ Like so.
[G] _
_ Okay, and here's the tune.
I'll play the first [Abm] verse [G] slowly. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ [D] _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And then after that, [Bb] the Scruggs-style verse.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] _
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Em] _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
[A] _ And that's the key change.
And then [D] the key of D, _ _ _ you have this. _ _
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_ And _ _ _ _ _
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then more three-finger roll. _ _ _
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ _ _ _ And a key change back into G.
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_ _ _ _ And so [Bb] on.
And at the very end, you've got this _ lick. _
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_ _ And I really can't [Abm] play it any slower. _
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I'm going to play it faster.
[Bb] Okay, and here's [Ab] a little bit of the song.
[G] _ _ _ _ _ Once I get going, it may be all of the song. _ _ _ _
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_ Or something like that.
That's Lonesome Roadblood.