Louisiana Lowdown

"Louisiana Lowdown" by Cowboy Mouth

>From the MCA album "Are You with Me?"

Previously from the Monkey Hill album "Mouthin' Off (Live+More)"

(Also from Sanchez's solo album "Jet Black And Jealous")

Written by Paul Sanchez, sung by Fred LeBlanc (previously by Sanchez)

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D#=x68886 C#=x46664 G#=466544 A#=688766 Gm=355333 Cm=335543

The main RIFF used throughout the song is:

The timing is difficult to show on this, but if you listen to the intro

you

can figure it out. Basically play a few D#'s, then C#'s, then almost

repeat

the pattern but quickly come back for a D# instead of the last C#.

The little filler notes (FILL) are just a little "tickling" of the first

two strings (e and B) held at the 8th fret (just mash down your third

finger

which should be on the 8th fret from playing the D# anyway).

INTRO: RIFF

VERSES:

D# FILL

Well my eyelids said four-thirty

D# FILL

and the radio clock said six

G# A# RIFF

and I was thinking up a reasonable excuse

D# FILL

I might have slept til yesterday

D# FILL

but in the shape I'm in

G# A# RIFF

what's twenty-four hours more or less to lose

I've burned up letters and I've burned up souvenirs

And left no traces Lord that I was ever here

D# G# A# RIFF

And I won't be Louisiana lowdown and blue

A# D# FILL

I saw a stranger smiling at me yesterday

A# D# FILL

And it scared me almost half to death

A# D# FILL

I wanted to hide I wanted to run away from her

A# RIFF

Instead I closed my eyes and she wasn't there