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                        I DON'T WANT TO GO HOME
                           (Steve van Zandt)
          as performed by Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes
               on the magnificent album of the same name

(c) 1976 Steve, Sony Music or whoever.

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


Standard tuning. 

Intro:

 F   C   Dm   Bb        (3x)

 Bb  C   F   C

During the intro, play a couple 

E---------
B--/18~---
G---------

using a slide. Listen to the record and you'll know what I mean.


1st verse:

F                    Dm
 Oh I know that it's getting late 
    Bb      C          F    C
But I don't want to go home 
F                      Dm
 I'm in no hurry baby, time can wait 
       Bb      C          F    C
'Cause I don't want to go home 


Same pattern for 2nd verse:

Listen to the man sing his song 
But I don't want to go home 
I don't mind if it takes all night long 
'Cause I don't want to go home 


(chorus:)
Listen baby --
F          Dm
 I know we had to try 
F                Dm        Bb
 To reach up and touch the sky, baby
F         C           Bb
 Whatever happened to you and I 
Bb            C          F     C         
 That I don't want to go home 


Same verse pattern as above for the next verses:

Lord, look at how the people stare 
Said I don't want to go home 
In their minds I know they've all been there 
I don't want to go home 

I know the words to this song are real 
Oh I don't want to go home 
I know he's talking about the way I feel 
And I don't want to go home 


(chorus)

(bridge:)


Bb         C           F         
 I want to hear people laughing and having a good time 
Bb         Am           C
 I want to know why she told me she had to go 
Bb                    C (barre 8th fret)
 Why did she leave me lonely? 

(The descending part can be played by simply playing the
appropriate barre chords from the C down to F. I.e. sth like
C C Bb Bb Am Am Gm Gm F to get back into the verse...)

I know that it's time to go 
But I don't want to go home 
You can play your blues (...) soft and low 
'Cause I don't want to go home 

(chorus etc.)

In the last chorus, at the end, there's a couple more lyrics lines
which follow the Bb - C - F chord progression.

Eventually this goes back into the F - C - Dm - Bb progression from
the intro, for the outro. :)

Over the outro, play some slide stuff again like in the intro,
on the record it eventually turns into this figure:

E-----------------
B--/18~--17~--15~-
G-----------------


And that's it. Have fun playing!


Tab explanation (examples):

10/12        Slide from 10 to 12.
~            Let ring, apply vibrato, small bends, trem bar, whatever...
