Tablature behind the bamboo shade - Joe Ely

          



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  Date: 1/21/97; 9:58:00 AM

  From: "Krall, Steve" <kralls@isspos1a.daytonoh.ncr.com>

  Subject: Joe Ely:  Behind The Bamboo Shade

  

  

  Behind The Bamboo Shade

  Music and Lyrics by Joe Ely

  >From Joe Ely's Dig All Night

  Transcribed by Steve Krall (steve.krall@daytonoh.ncr.com)

  Comments/Corrections encouraged

  

  This song is primarily verses w/ 2 types of

  chord patterns, labelled A and B.  The first

  verse, however, is a little different

  

  

  Verse 1

  D

  In a border town when the lights go down

          G              D

  And the Ranchero Radio plays

           D                     D

  You wont find me around in the lights of the town

          A                 G         D

  I'll be out where the day meets the shade

  

  

  Pattern A

         D                     G                  D

  I only came for a holiday to sit in the Mexican wind

         D                         G                   D

  I only came for the whiskey, but suddenly she walked in

             D                           D

  She wore a dress made of lace, And the light on her face

    G

  I felt the room start to shake

             D                       A                 D

  It shook a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade...

  

  Pattern A

  I only came for the sun but I wound up with the moon and the stars

  When her eyes met mine, the room filled with Spanish guitars

  The kerosene in my blood Came on like a flood

  As I stood to take her away

  To a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade...

  

  Pattern B

       G                                         D

  On a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade

           G                                              A

  With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead

            D                                   D

  I reached out in the dark, Put my hand on her heart,

            G

  While the bows of the palm trees swayed

       D                       A                 D

  On a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade

  

  Pattern A

  I woke up in a sweat, my legs feeling too weak to stand

  There's a pain in my back and not a bit of grip in my hands

  A flash of steel in the night Left me no time to write

  An epitaph to leave on my grave

  The church bells rang on a Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade

  

  Pattern B

  On a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade

  With the skeletons dancing on the eve of the Day of the Dead

  If you see Juan Tell him I can't come

  I've got a previous engagement I've made.

  I'm On a Black Spanish Love Seat Behind the Bamboo Shade... 


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 Behind the bamboo shade, de Joe ely 

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