Three Dimes Down Chords
Three Dimes Down by Drive-By Truckers is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of G. It uses the chords G, D, A, Bm and C. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
Intro:
e|--3s5-3------------------------ |-----------------------------------------|
B|--2s4-2-2s4s2-------2-----------|-----------------------------------------|
G|-------------2-2h4---4-2--------|-----------------------------------------|
D|--------------------------------|---2--4-2-4-2-4-2-4----------------------|
A|--------------------------------|---0--0-0-0-0-0-0-0----------------------|
E|--------------------------------|-----------------------------------------|
G
It was a straight shot
D A
All it took was luck to not get caught
G D A
I laid three dimes down and the machine wanted 25 cents
G D
In the back seat her and a friend,
A
one out the window and the other on the other end
G D A
One belt loop away from Sunday night's news
Solo on verse chords
G D A
If the part about being who he was didn't help Tom get loose,
G D
what's a guy without a T. gonna get? Totally screwed,
A
while chicken wing puke eats the candy apple red off his Corvette
G D A
Three dimes down and 25 cents shy of a slice of the Doublemint twins
G D A
Come back baby, Rock and Roll never forgets
Solo on verse chords
Outro (instrumental):
G Bm A
D C Bm A