Standard (EADGBE)

Guitar:

Intro

Intro fill

At the end of the G, on the top string, run down (this also repeats through the verse):

Guitar:

Mandolin:

Oh I love you baby. I love you night and day.

When I leave you baby. Don't cry the night away.

When I die don't you write. No words upon my tomb.

I don't believe I want to leave no epitaph of doom.

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

I want to leave some happy woman living on.

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave.

(note – at the end of the first chorus couplet, G->A progression is much quicker than

other changes – same as in the outro)

Oh my Melinda, she's out to get my hide.

She's got a shotgun and her daughter by her side.

Hey there ladies. Johnson's free.

Who's got the love, who's got enough to keep a man like me?

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

I want to leave some happy woman living on.

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

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)

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

I want to leave some happy woman living on.

Oh oh oh oh. When I'm dead and gone

Don't want nobody to mourn beside my grave.

Outro

D / / / G / A / (repeat & fade – or end on D)

Ooh la la la