Just Dropped In
by Kenny Rogers and the First Edition

Notes: the guitars are so distorted it's hard to tell, but the chord
notated as Am7 might actually be A7#9 (54555x) - try both and see
which you think sounds more like the record.  The bass is definitely
tuned below concert pitch (see the second break), and I suspect that
the distorted rhythm guitar is as well - try tuning to DGCFAD and
playing in Em/Fm/F#m.  -- AWR


[Intro]
(Backwards guitar over B minor pentatonic scale; end on D note)

[Chorus]
  
Yeah   yeah   

oh, yeah
              
What condition

        
 my condition 

was in

[Verse 1]
   (       
I woke up this

              
 morning with 

           
the sundown   

         
shining in
              
I found my min

              
d in a brown p

             
aper bag   wit

  (
hin
            
I tripped on a

              
 cloud and fel

      
l a-eight mile

s high
 
I tore my mind

  on a jagged 

sky
            
I just dropped

           
 in   to see w

              
hat condition 

      
my condition w

as in

(Repeat chorus)

[Instrumental]
Bass (doubled w/vibes; fuzz guitar plays chords where indicated):
             
       v   v  

            
 v   v     v  

           
 v   v   v    

              
 v   v   v   v

    (
     v
G|-5-|---2----
D|---|-------3
A|---|--------
E|---|--------

-------1-|----
---3-----|---1
-5-------|----
---------|----

-------------|
-------------|
---3-1-4---1-|
-------------|

--------------
--------------
-4---1-4---1-4
--------------

---|-----|
---|-----|
-5-|-6---|
---|-----|

[Verse 2]
(Key change to Ebm)
           
I pushed my so

         
ul  in a deep 

              
dark hole and 

       
then I followe

d it in
              
I watched myse

              
lf crawlin' ou

           
t as I was cra


wlin' in
           
I got up so ti

      
ght, I couldn'

t unwind
  
I saw so much,

 I broke my mi

nd
           
I just dropped

          
 in   to see w

              
hat condition 

      
my condition w

as in

[Solo]
           
 / / / /  / / 

            
/ /  / / / /  

          [
/ / / /  / / /

/
 / /   x2
        (in)

 / / / /  / / 

/ /
(yeah)

(Repeat chorus in Ebm)
  
Yeah   yeah   

oh, yeah
              
What condition

    
 my condition 

was in

[Instrumental Break 2]
(Bass doubled w/vibes; fuzz guitar plays chords where indicated)
(Note: this starts in a lower octave than the first time,
and goes down to a low Eb - detune the low E as indicated,
play it on one of them newfangled 5-strings, or shift it
up an octave.)

        v   v 
G |---|-------
D |---|-------
A |-4-|---1---
Eb|---|-------

  v   v     v 
----------|---
----------|---
--------0-|---
3-0-3-----|---

  v   v   v   
--------------
--------0-----
----4-2-----2-
1-------------

  v   v   v   
|-------------
|-0-----0-----
|-----2-----2-
|-------------

v     v
----|---|
0-1-|-2-|
----|---|
----|---|

(Someone...)

[Verse 3]
(Key change to Em)
            
Someone painte

           
d "April Fool"

              
 in big black 

             
letters on a d


ead-end sign
              
I've had my fo

              
ot on the gas 

              
since I left t

              
he road and bl

      
ew out my mind
            
Eight miles ou

              
t of Memphis a

     
nd I got no sp

are
            
Eight miles st


raight up down

town somewhere
            
I just dropped

           
 in   to see w

              
hat condition 

       
my condition w

as in
            
I said, I just

              
 dropped in to

           
 see what cond

             
ition my condi


tion was in

[Outro]
  
Yeah   yeah   

   oh, yeah-eh

  (slow down; 

voices through

 Leslie)
Em (single chord w/fuzz and tremolo)
Bass (doubled w/vibes; free tempo):

G|------6-5---
D|-5--------6-
A|------------
E|------------

4----3--------
-------3----1-
--------------
--------------

--3-----|
2---0---|
--------|
--------|


(feedback, org

an, and fuzz g

uitar; fade ou

t, in, out, in

, out)