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                          RIDE THE NIGHT AWAY
                    (Steve van Zandt/Steve Jordan)
          as performed by Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
                on the magnificent album "Better Days"

(c) 1985 Blue Midnight Music (ASCAP) / Warner-Tamerlane Publishing
Corp. / Risque Situe (BMI)

Transcribed without permission by Jan Neersoe 
(j n eersoe @ qw ert zu. de) (remove spaces from e-mail to reply)

View this in a monospaced font so that it makes sense.

OK, so I found myself listening to that great song with a guitar in 
my hands, and accidentally found out that first "riff"... and
figured that I might as well transcribe the rest.
As always, I'd love to hear comments or corrections (and if anybody 
has other SSJ or Little Steven crd's or tabs, send'em in...)!

Standard tuning.

Intro "riff" (yeah, right...):

        E     B    E    (well, sort of...)

--------4----------4~----------
--------5-----4----5~----------
--------4-----4----4~----------
--------7-----4----7~----------
-------------------------------
-------------------------------

This is repeated throughout the verse...

I -- got something (pretty/baby?) on my mind
Well it's tearing me up inside
And I've got to let it loose tonight


(Here I think another guitar comes in playing B5 powerchords
until the pre-chorus.)

I know you -- can feel what I'm going through
Everybody telling me what to do
Well I need somebody to talk to

G#m                                   E
   And I'm different I can feel the changes
                             C#m
   But I can't turn back the pages
                                     A  (?)
   And our hearts are all we have to save us
         F#
Somebody save me tonight

           B E       B     F#     B  F#
We're gonna ride the night away
           B E       B     F#     B  F#
We're gonna ride the night away
           B                     E
Well there ain't no time left to borrow
              B                      G#m
I guess we'll have to think about it tomorrow
          E                F#                     B
'cause tonight we're gonna ride the night away


The rest is played like the first part.


I got a gun pointing at my head
And I put it there by myself
Can't ask it but I need some help

Oh I -- got a fire burning in my soul
I'm dangerous, I'm out of control
And tonight I got to let it go

I can't look back baby I've tried
But it's too late for me to compromise
Well I need somebody by my side
Come on with me tonight 

(chorus)


At the end of the 2nd chorus, the chords are like:
     E                  F#m                E
oh tonight we're gonna ride the night away

I'm not sure about the chords under the solo. You should
be able to construct something from E, F# and a lot of B. ;)

I'm also too lazy to transcribe Bobby B.'s solo here... you
just start off with a lot of

-------------7--7----
-------------7--7----
------9b(11)---------
---------------------
---------------------
---------------------

etc., play with those coupla notes (you know what I mean) until 
you get bored, then make that guitar SCREAM and at the end
work your way around the pentatonic scale at the 4th fret until
you land safely on a G#. I think.

Then it's back to the 2nd pre-chorus and chorus etc. etc.

... and that's it. Have fun playing. And buy the album if you don't
have it already.
