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                                Goodbye – Steve Earle (live in Sydney)
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Version: Steve Earle live at Factory Theatre in Sydney on April 8, 2012
Tuning: Standard with capo on 5th fret.
Key: C (G relative to capo)
Timing 4/4
Tabbed by Robert Saunders


Chords (relative to capo):

Gadd9:    3X0203
G:        320003 (often switching to 320013 and occasionally 320033)
D7sus4/G: 3X021X
D7/F#:    20021X (often switching to 20020X)
C/G:      33201X
Em:       022000


NOTES:

I've posted the full tab as a separate entry but here are the chords and lyrics from the live 
Sydney Recording (which, unlike the picking patterns, seem to be very similar in all recordings). 
His thumb plays alternating bass notes throughout.

You will see that I’ve differentiated between the G (320003) and the Gadd9 (3X0203) chords. Although 
they are both G chords with different melody notes, these are the two starting shapes that Steve Earle 
uses, moving his second finger down from the 5th string to the 3rd string when he switches from the G 
to the Gadd9. The Gadd9 becomes a D7sus4/G (3X021X) when he frets the 2nd string on the 1st fret with 
his first finger. When playing the G chord he always frets the 5th string on the 2nd fret even though 
he doesn’t pick it. 

If you want to play a simplified version you can play G chords instead of the Gadd9 and D7sus4/G chords.
Just keep your thumb playing the alternating bass notes and pick out whichever high notes fit with the 
rhythm and melody. 



LYRICS & CHORDS:


"Same girl - some girls are just better for songs than others. Different harmonica."



[INTRO]

                  

      

          

              



[VERSE 1]


    
  I  remember 

            
  holding on t

              
o you

          
  All them lon

           
g and,   lonel

           
y nights that 

             
I  put you thr

           
ough.

       
  Somewhere in

          
 there,  [I’m]

             
 sure I made y

          
ou cry.

           
[But] I     ca

           
n't remember  

    
   if we said 

            
goodbye.



[CHORUS]

           
[But] I recall

        
              

         
all of them ni

             
ghts down in M

           
exico

             
One place I ma

      
y never go    

     
      in my li

/            
fe  again

      
Was I         

        
   off somewhe

             
re, just too h

          
igh?

           
Well I   can't

        
 remember    i

       
f we said good

         
bye.



[BRIDGE]

                     

         

                   

                     



[HARMONICA PART]

                     

         

             

                     



[VERSE 2]


    
  I only miss 

            
you  ever'   n

                
ow and then.

            
  It's like th

            
e soft breeze,

        
   blowing up 

             
from the Carib

            
bean.

    
  Most Novembe

            
rs   I break d

                   
own and cry.

           
Coz I    can't

        
 remember     

       
if we said goo

         
dbye.



[CHORUS]

           
[But] I recall

        
              

         
all of them ni

             
ghts down in M

           
exico

             
That's one pla

         
ce I'll never 

    
go        in m

            
y life  again

      
Was I         

        
   off somewhe

             
re, just too h

          
igh?

           
Well I   can't

        
 remember    i

       
f we said good

         
bye.



[OUTRO]

        
  Can't rememb

        
er     if we s

        
aid   goodbye

       
Goodbye

        
Goodbye