When I'm Dead And Gone Chords & Tabs
When I'm Dead And Gone Chords
McGuinness Flint
“When I’m Dead And Gone”
Chords:
Mandolin:
D G A
E 2 3 0
A 0 2 0
D 0 0 2
G 2 0 2
Guitar:
D G A
E 2 3 0
B 3 3 2
G 2 0 2
D 0 0 2
A x 2 0
E x 3 x
Intro:
D G D G
Intro fill:
At the end of the G, on the top string, run down (this also repeats through the verse):
Guitar:
E: 3-3-3---2---0-|
B: 3-3-3---3---3-|
G: 0-0-0---0---0-|
D: 0-0-0---0---0-|
Mandolin:
E: 3-3-3---2---0-|
A: 2-2-2---2---0-|
D: 0-0-0---0---0-|
G: 0-0-0---0---0-|
D G
Oh I love you baby. I love you night and day.
D G
When I leave you baby. Don't cry the night away.
D G
When I die don't you write. No words upon my tomb.
D G
I don't believe I want to leave no epitaph of doom.
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A D G A
I want to leave some happy woman living on.
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A G D
don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/m/mcguinness_flint/when_im_dead_and_gone_crd_ver_3.html ]
(note – at the end of the first chorus couplet, G->A progression is much quicker than
other changes – same as in the outro)
D G
Oh my Melinda, she's out to get my hide.
D G
She's got a shotgun and her daughter by her side.
D G
Hey there ladies. Johnson's free.
D G
Who's got the love, who's got enough to keep a man like me?
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A D G A
I want to leave some happy woman living on.
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A G D
Don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave.
Instrumental / solo (to play this, you need a kazoo and to forget how to play the guitar
– otherwise, twiddling on the D pentatonic suffices)
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A D G A
I want to leave some happy woman living on.
D A D G
Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone
D A G D
Don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave.
Outro:
D / / / G / A / (repeat & fade – or end on D)
Ooh la la la
