• Song:

    You Can Sleep While I Drive

  • Artist:

    Melissa Etheridge

  • Album:

    Live Montreal 1994

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#This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the #
#song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. #
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Subject: TAB/CRD: You Can Sleep While I Drive--Melissa Etheridge
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By request, You Can Sleep While I Drive...third in a series.

BTW, does anyone have the tab for Love & Rockets' Saudade, from the
album Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven?  I didn't notice a L&R
directory at nevada, although I could have overlooked it..
Please post or mail it if you do, anyway...this song is a longtime
favourite...

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CHORDS

			E   A   G   D   B   E
			---------------------
		Am	x   0   2   2   1   0
		Bb	x   1   3   3   3   1
		C	x   3   2   0   1   0
		C(2)	x   3   2   0   3   0
		Dm	x   x   0   2   3   1
		Dsus	x   x   0   2   3   3
		F 	1   3   3   2   1   1
		G7	3   2   0   0   0   1

VERSE
BASIC PICKING PATTERN

Dm                     C (2 fr.)
E     ------3-----1-----0-----1-----0- ------------0-------0-----------|
A     ----3-----3-----3-----3-----3--- ------3-------3---3---3---------|
G     --2-----2-----2-----2-----2----- ----0-----0-----0-----------0---|
D     0------------------------------- --2-----2---------------0h2-----|
B     -------------------------------- 3-------------------------------|
e     -------------------------------- --------------------------------|

        Dm                          C (2 fr.)
Come on baby, let's get out of this town

        Dm                         C (2 fr.)
I got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down

          Bb                                 Am        F
There's a chill in my bones, I don't want to be left alone

                                     C (2 fr.)
so baby you can sleep while I drive

             Dm                        C (2 fr.)
I'll pack my bag and load up my guitar

      Dm                        C (2 fr.)
In my pocket I'll carry my harp

           Bb                         Am       F
I got some money I've saved enough to get underway

    Bb           F                   C (2 fr.)
and baby you can sleep while I drive

                 Dm                    C (2 fr.)
We'll go through Tucson up to Santa Fe

    Dm                              C (2 fr.)
and Barb'ra in Nashville says we're welcome to stay

             Bb                      Am         F
I'll buy you glasses in Texas, a hat from New Orleans

           Bb                  F                C (2 fr.)
and in the morning you can tell me your dreams

           G7                                F           C
You know I've seen it before, this mist that covers your eyes

            G7                           F           C
You've been looking for something that's not in your life

     Bb                                   Am    F
My intentions are true, won't you take me with you?

    Bb           F                  C (2 fr.)
and baby you can sleep while I drive

Dsus4    Dm      |C   C (2 fr.)    C    |
Dsus4    Dm      |C   C (2 fr.)    C    |

Am      G    C
Oh            is it other arms you want to

Am    G7  C                    Bb
hold      you the stranger the lover you're free

          Am            F
Can't you get that from me?

        Dm                         C (2 fr.)
Come on baby let's get out of this town

           Dm                        C (2 fr.)
I've got a full tank of gas with the top rolled down

             Bb                          Am            F
If you won't take me with you, I'll go before night is through

    Bb           F                  C (2 fr.)
And baby you can sleep while I drive

***lyrics & music Melissa Etheridge, 1989--all rights hers...
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Back on  "oh...is it other arms you want to....", that first G
might be a G7.  I think the G sounds better, but be your own judges...

Any requests for my next endeavor?

Tina
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