Chords: Come On Around to My House Mama (W McTell)

Subject: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: teddy_bear_picnic
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 03:07 AM

by the one and only Blind Willie McTell.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: Peace
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:31 AM

Tabs here.

I don't understand tabs. I hope you do.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: Joe Offer
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:41 AM

Damn. I thought this was the one by Rosemary Clooney.
-Joe-

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: Peace
Date: 11 Feb 07 - 04:48 AM

Written by Ross Bagdasarian and William Saroyan in 1951. That was a neat song.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: GUEST
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 01:21 AM

Man, I can't even tell what damn key the tab is supposed to be in!

The structure for this song can be used for dozens of raggy blues, from "Send Me to the 'Lectric Chair" on down to "Walk Right In" (slight diffs there) and "Alice's Restaurant." I don't remember McTell's lyrics but these are the chords:

[C]Come on [Em7] around to [A7] my house, mama,
[D7]Ain't nobody [G7]home but [C] me.
Call me a [Em7] hotshot, [A7] rowdy and a cheater,
[D7] Just 'cause I'm from [G7]Tennessee
[C] Well, take it easy, [C7] don't get rough
[F]Cause these here women really [F#0] knows their [F]stuff,
[C]Come on [Em7] around to [A7] my house, mama,
[D7]Ain't nobody [G7]home but [C]me, I [A7] mean,
[D7]There ain't nobody [G7] home but [C] me.

McTell plays this out of C positions, as he does in most of the other songs he did with a similar structure ("Kind Mama," "Let Me Play with Yo' Yo-Yo" &c). He's tuned approximately C#-F#-B-E-G#-C# (bass to treble), so it sounds in A or thereabouts.

Subject: RE: Chord Req: Come On Around to My House Mama
From: teddy_bear_picnic
Date: 12 Feb 07 - 02:13 AM

very helpful thank you very much, I'll have fun attempting this one!

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