Goodbye - Steve Earle

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Goodbye
by Steve Earle on the album Train A Comin'
also on Emmylou Harris' Wrecking Ball


[Intro]
        

[Verse 1]
             
I remember hol

     
din' on to you
            
All them long 

             
and lonely nig

      
hts I put you 

through
             
Somewhere in t

              
here I'm sure 

  
I made you cry
             
But I can't re

        ( 
member if we s

         
aid goodbye

[Chorus]
             
But I recall a

              
ll of them nig

              
hts down in Me

  
xico
              
One place I ma

              
y never go
           
In my life aga

        (
in
             
Was I just off

              
 somewhere jus

      
t too high
             
But I can't re

             
member if we s

        
aid goodbye

[Verse 2]
             
I only miss yo

     
u every now an

d then
            
Like a soft br

             
eeze blowin up

      
 from the Cari

bbean
             
Most Novembers

              
 I break down 

  
and cry
             
But I can't re

        ( 
member if we s

         
aid goodbye

[Chorus]
             
But I recall a

              
ll of them nig

              
hts down in Me

  
xico
              
One place I ma

              
y never go
           
In my life aga

        (
in
             
Was I just off

              
 somewhere jus

      
t too high
             
But I can't re

             
member if we s

        
aid goodbye

[Coda]
             
But I can't re

             
member if we s

         
aid goodbye

Goodbye

Goodbye


(G7) means maybe throw in a dominant seventh.
The C and G chords use sus4's etc off and on.
You can incorporate the riff that runs throughout the song into
your fingerpicking by playing it on the 4th (D) and 5th (A)
strings, effectively playing Csus4's, G6/B's, G7/B's etc.

 = x33010
   = x20003
  = x22003
  = x23003

Use a C harp for the harmonica solo.