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