• Song:

    Were An American Band

  • Artist:

    Grand Funk Railroad

Artist Related tabs and Sheet Music

Hey, i listened to this song carefully and found were i made my mistakes in my previous 
So here it is, corrected and prefected. Except little solo bit at the end, i apologize 
that.

    Intro

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        Intro (continued)

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  Near the end of the intro there is alot of changing notes which i couldnt quite catch. 
you play it that way, you can hadly tell.Sorry.


    K now heres the first verse.


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  Out on the road for forty days,last night in middle rock put me in haze.
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Sweet sweet connie, doin her act,she had that whole show and thats a natural fact.
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  Playin all night, with freddie king, ive got to tell you, pokers his thing. Booze and 
keep me right. As long as we can make it to the show tonight.
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 (continued)
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        Chorus

Were an american band.. were an american band.. were comin to your town, well help you 
it down, were an american band.

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Four young chiquitas, in Omaha, waitin for the band to return from the show.
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Feelin good, feelin right, its saturday night. The hotel detective he was out of sight.
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Now these fine ladies, they had a plan. They were out to meet the boys in the band. They 
"Comon dudes, lets get it on". And we proceeded to tear that hotel down!
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  (continued)
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Were an american band.. were an american band.. were comin to your town, well help you 
it down, were an american band.

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Were an american band.. were an american band.. were comin to your town, well help you 
it down, were an american band.

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 And there ye have it, except for solo, id say this sounds hella good. I appreciate your 
and advise, plz contact me at DragonFighter989@aol.com

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