Johnnyswim – Home chords

Home – Johnnyswim
Interpretation by Stephen O’Hora

It’s played with some flourishes on the G chord at the end of each line, the “G-C” is like:

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

While on the “G” it’s played much like this:

|----3---3--3---3--3-||--------1------1----||--------------------||--------------------||----2---------------||-3--3---3--3---3--3-|It’s easy to pick up when you listen to the song to get the rhythm right.

F                C        G    -     CRight around the corner down by the canyon
F       C                 GI met a man who lost his way
F       C           G   -  CSaid I’m born the son of a sailor
F         C               GWho never showed me his face
F       C           G      -     C Daddy’s gone and my momma met her maker
F       C              GOh to hell with that place
F         C            F          CQuit your talking, your sideways walking
F       C              GTime to find another path to take
F       C              F         CQuit your whining your bloodshot crying
F               C              GFake it like your dying never pace
F-C       F-CJust go home
        F               C   G Ohhh, you need you some home
   F        C       Gyou need you some home

F               C                      GHer name was Peggy Sue and her Daddy hung the moon
F       C              GIn her eyes he could no wrong
F                C        G           -                CThen he started drinking like there’s a message in the bottle
F               C              GNow Daddy’s painting Peggy black and blue
F               CShe closes her eyes
F               CThrough the heroes demise
F               C          GHolds to a hope beyond the sky
F         CTakes a breath
F                     CA weight comes off her chest
F       C                      GFind a way to weather through the storm

Chorus
CShe cried out 
Ooooohhhh 
F       C              GI love (need) me some home
                                F       C              GI need me some home

*muted with palm across strings*
F       C              GFound myself on a train to California 
F       C   G25 years of age
F          C                           G (one strum down)Sat beside me was a lovely rose a wanderer
F       C              GTwo is always better they say
F               CWe made our plans
F               CGave me her hand
F               C              GWe ain’t got no time for looking back
F               CI was bruised and beaten
F               CLost for many reasons
F               C              GOnly love will make you understand

Chorus
(G)                             F      C      GOoooohhhh I love me some home
                        F       C      GI love me some home
F       C      G
F       C      G-C

F                       CWe are all bruised and beaten
F                       CLost on account of many reasons
F               C              GOnly love will make you understand
(G)                             F      C      GOoooohhhh I love me some home
                        F       C      GI love me some home