High Plains Jamboree Chords

KeyC CapoNone TuningStandard Difficulty Plays422

High Plains Jamboree by Bobby Bare is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, G and F. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.

Transpose
C
Text
16
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Verse 

     C               G 
Well she was a honky tonker 
    G               C 
And he was a family man 
         C                  G 
Yeah and she showed him her gold teeth 
          G               C 
When he'd hold her little hand 

Bridge 

         F                                            C 
And they met out on the highway at the Paradise Motel lounge 
     G                                                                   C 
On a saturday night when things weren't right 'tween him and his wife in town 


           F            G           C 
And they's just another couple on a high plains jamboree 
F                G                   C 
Playing out them sad songs they understand 
          F            G             C 
Yeah they just another couple making jukebox memories 
    F            G                C 
And walking into troubles hand in hand 

Solo: F-G-C  F-G-C 

Verse 
             C                  G 
Well now she weren't no maid of cotton 
       G                    C 
And he weren't no hell of a man 
         C                    G 
But they must have loved each other 
     G               C 
Like only the lonely can 

Bridge 
           F                                                    C 
Cause they slow dance through the neons like a sorrow through a song 
         G                                                          C 
And they carried the tune to the motel room and played it all night long 


           F            G           C 
And they's just another couple on a high plains jamboree 
F                G                   C 
Playing out them sad songs they understand 
          F            G             C 
Yeah they just another couple making jukebox memories 
      F            G                C 
And a-walking into troubles hand in hand 
       F            G                C 
Just a-walking into troubles hand in hand 
    	

Chord diagrams

Guitar tuner

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Start the tuner and play a string

Reference tones

Standard tuning, lowest to highest. Click a string to play it; the string the mic hears is highlighted.

Click Start tuner and allow microphone access. The needle centers and turns green when a string is in tune (within 5 cents).
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Metronome

100 BPM Andante