Tunica Motel
Tony Joe White


[intro]
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[Chords]

[verse 1]
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Monday looked like a downer
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Tuesday looked like rain
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A bad altitude
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And I knew I needed a change


[Verse 2]

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Head out on the highway
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Cruising way down south
    E
I knew a little place
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Where we might could work it all out

[Chorus 1]
D5       E                   F#m
I'm so tired of fighting with myself
        B5                       E      F#m
Gonna spend a little time at the Tunica Motel


[Verse 3]

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Just outside of Memphis,
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Highway 61
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Sleepy little town down by the
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Mississippi River

[Verse 4]
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I'm gonna lay out on a houseboat
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Until my hide turns brown
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Ain't gonna move 'till the
B7               F#m
Evening sun goes down

[Chorus 2]
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Fried chicken to go and they got live bait for sale
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Anything you need at the Tunica Motel

[Verse 5]
F#m                F#m7
I find myself at midnight
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Moving to the back porch blues
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The guitar cries, telling me
            F#m   
About the hard times

[verse 6]
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Something moves in the shadows
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Giving me a little chill
             E
I thought I saw Robert Johnson
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Walking out across the field

[chorus 3]
             D5             E                      F#m
There ain't hardly anybody left who even knows the tale
B5                     E      F#m
Gimme the blues at the Tunica Motel