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Don't Play Cards With Satan - Daniel Johnston
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Tabbed by: Christian Demmings
Email: cdemmings@hotmail.com
Tuning: Daniel Johnston signature tuning; or some crazy, off-version of Standard. If
like to replicate the live version off the 1990 album, turn all your keys a 1/4 turn in
directions and punch your guitar, rather than strumming it. He seems to play it
every performance.
This tab is how I play it. On the G and C chords I'm really only strumming the E, A, and
strings, and picking the G string each time. Satan!
Chords Used:
G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C Ae|-3-0-0-| (x02220@1)B|-3-1-2-|
G|-0-0-2-|
D|-0-2-2-|
A|-2-3-0-|
E|-3-0-0-|
GDon't (320003@1)play cards with Satan
C (x32010@1) GHe'll (320003@1)deal you an awful hand
GDon't (320003@1)play cards with Satan
C (x32010@1) GHe'll (320003@1)deal you an awful hand
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GDid (320003@1)I ever stop and tell you I am a desperate man?
G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)thought I saw a bluebird sitting on a post
AShiver (x02220@1)down my spine
G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)thought it was the Holy Ghost
GI (320003@1)heard the word before
C (x32010@1) GAnd (320003@1)I knew that it was good
Somebody oughta do like the Good Book should
G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)heard the voice of Satan crying in the woods
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GI (320003@1)saw my own heart laying black with blood
GDon't (320003@1)play cards with Satan
C (x32010@1) GHe'll (320003@1)deal you an awful hand
Please believe me
A (x02220@1) G (320003@1) C (x32010@1) GDid (320003@1)I ever stop and tell you I am a desperate man?
G (320003@1)name="chord_x32010@1">C GA (320003@1)desperate man
Satan!