Gun Club: "Come Back Jim" (from the "Death Party" EP)


(note: all words are transcribed from the record, so there’s no guarantee that this is all 100% correct)

 

intro: the following riff 2 times with guitar only, then 2 times with guitar, bass and drums

 

    E(mute)  E(mute)  E(mute)  E(mute)

-x-x------x-x------x-x------x-x-----

-x-x------x-x------x-x------x-x-----

-x-x---1--x-x---1--x-x---1--x-x---1-

-x-x---2--x-x---2--x-x---2--x-x---2-

-x-x---2--x-x---2--x-x---2--x-x---2-

-x-x------x-x------x-x------x-x-----

 

E(mute)= strike chord once and deaden the strings immediately by laying the little finger across the third fret,
while the other fingers stay in E-chord position.

 

By the start of the singing the riff changes as follows and will be continued like this throughout all verses.
The number in brackets tells the amount of times the riff is played per line.

 

  E(mute) E E(mute) E(mute) E E(mute)

-x-----------------x-----------------

-x-----------------x-----------------

-x---1----1----1---x---1----1----1---

-x---2----2----2---x---2----2----2---

-x---2----2----2---x---2----2----2---

-x-----------------x-----------------

 

E riff (1)

You showed me how to make it

E riff (1)

you showed me everything

E riff (3)

you showed me, now you say that you're going

E riff (1)        G E G E G E

gonna leave, hey

E riff (1)        G E G E G E

gonna leave, hey

 

 

(1) ----------------------------- 

(1) You showed me to these people

(1) you showed me all the way

(3) showed me and now you say you're going

(1) goin’ away, hey

(1) goin’ away, hey

 

 

(1) ----------------------------- 

(1) For you I love the music

(1) for you I love the sea

(3) for you I love it all, please don't leave

(1) please don't leave me, hey

(1) oh, please don't leave me now

 

 

instrumental = verse

 

 

(1) ----------------------------- 

(1) You brought me here from Kansas

(1) I hurted in my seats

(3) yes, I guess I can get by, but I can't

(1) I can't get by

(1) oh, I can't get by

 

 

(1) ----------------------------- 

(1) They say you're going crazy

(1) they say you're going mad

(3) say you've given up all these, given up your bad things, given up your oddity

(1) that you ever had

(1) and I want you though you're mad

 

 

instrumental = verse

 

 

(1) ----------------------------- 

(1) I always haunted to have you

(1) you called me will-o’-the-wisp

(4) I belong within, I say come back, Jim, come back, Jim

(2) I say come back, Jim, hey

(1) I say come back, Jim

(1) I say come back, Jim

(1) I say come back, Jim

 

end: Em7 (022030)

 


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