Climax Blues Band, Couldn't Get It Right (1976)
Key: :[Dm] (w: Climax Blues Band)
INTRO: [Dm]
VERSE 1:
[Dm] Time is driftin', this rock has got to roll
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] So I hit the road and made my
[Dm] getaway
^
[F]^
[C]^
[Dm] Restless feeling, I really gotta hold
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] I started searching for a
[G] better
[G open] way
CHORUS:
And I
[F] kept on looking for a
[C] sign in the middle of the
[Gm] night
But I couldn't see the ^
[Gm] light ^
[A]^
[A#], no I couldn't see the
[F] light
[C]
I
[F] kept on looking for a
[C] way to take me through the
[Gm] night
But I couldn't get it
[D#] right, no I couldn't get it
[G] right
VERSE 2:
[Dm] L.A. fever, made me feel alright
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] But I must admit it got the
[Dm] best of me
^
[F]^
[C]^
[Dm] Gettin' down, so deep I nearly drowned
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] I can't get back to where I
[G] used to
[G open] be
REPEAT CHORUS:
INSTRUMENTAL: [over VERSE]
VERSE 3:
[Dm] New York City, took me with the tide
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] I nearly died from hospit-
[Dm]-ality
^
[F]^
[C]^
[Dm] Left me stranded and took away my pride
^
[Dm]^
[C]^
[A#] Just another know it all
[G] fatali-
[G open]-ty
REPEAT CHORUS: [x3]