Chord Req: Honky Tonk Girl (Hank Thompson)

Subject: Chord Req: To 'Honky Tonk Girl ' by I think Hank Th
From: GUEST,duncan the drifter
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 03:34 PM

help mer out here you loyal fans of old country,chords to honky tonk girl by hank thompson [i think] THANKS

Subject: RE: Chord Req: To 'Honky Tonk Girl ' by I think Hank T
From: Sorcha
Date: 26 Feb 03 - 05:06 PM

There is tab at Cowpie.......CLICK ME! Doesn't look like the usual tab, so I don't know if this is any help.

Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: HONKY-TONK GIRL (Hank Thompson)
From: GUEST
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 12:34 AM

HONKY-TONK GIRL
Recorded by: Hank Thompson

[1] Don't be fooled by big blue [5] eyes
By a smile or a golden [1] curl
For she'll love you now and then [4] break ev'ry vow
'Cause [1] she's just a [5] honky-tonk [1] girl

BRIDGE:
[5] Don't be fooled by kisses or [1] arms that hold you tight
[5] There will be another in her [1] arms tomorrow night
[4] Hearts to her are toy tops; she [1] likes to watch 'em whirl
'Cause [5] she's just a honky-tonk [1] girl

You can never change her ways
Tho' you give her all the world
She's got more than one or two and each day there's someone new
'Cause she's just a honky-tonk girl

BRIDGE:
Breakin' hearts to her is just a way of havin' fun
She thinks ev'ry man's a fool and you're another one
She knows all the arts of love; she'll give your heart a whirl
'Cause she's just a honky-tonk girl

REPEAT 1ST BRIDGE:

Subject: RE: Chord Req: To 'Honky Tonk Girl ' by I think Hank T
From: duncan the drifter
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 11:12 AM

thank you both, Sorcha and Guest,that should do just fine

Subject: RE: Chord Req: To 'Honky Tonk Girl ' by I think Hank T
From: GUEST,MCP
Date: 27 Feb 03 - 01:11 PM

Sorcha -

That's the so-called Nashville numbering system for chords

1 = tonic (C in key of C)
4 = subdominant (F in key of C)
5 = dominant (G in key of C)
57= dominant 7th (G7 in key of C)

(it's a modern rendering of the equivalent Roman style I, IV, V). Each number corresponds to a chord with its root as the corresponding note of the scale, so you have:

  Nashville:                    1  2  3  4  5  6  7 
  Chords root in key of C:      C  D  E  F  G  A  B
              in key of A:      A  B  C# D  E  F# G#
  

and you can add all normal chord suffixes eg 1maj7 3m7b5 etc. (So usual triads on chord tones in a major key would be 1 2m 3m 4 5 6m 7dim eg in C: C Dm Em F G Am Bdim)

The idea is to save tying the notation to a particular key and make transposition easier - the numbers stay the same whatever the key.

Mick