High Flyin Baby Chords & Tabs
Artist-Flamin' Groovies
Song-High Flyin' Baby
Album-Teenage Head
Writer-Loney
Tabbed by S. McNally
Main slide guitar tuned to open G (D G D G B D)
/=slide up
\=slide down
x=deaden string
Intro
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C D
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-3/5----3/5-----5/7----5/7--|
-3/5----3/5-----5/7----5/7--|
-3/5----3/5-----5/7----5/7--|
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C D
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(0:24)
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Verse 1 (0:32)
C
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I gotta roll baby she's so clean, well she takes the tune yea raw machine
G
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C
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When it comes to love babe she ain't small..she's the queen of hearts y'all
G
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D
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What she don't know baby she don't care
C Bb G C Bb G
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But the bottom half there said they don't wear
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[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/f/flamin_groovies/high_flyin_baby_tab.html ]
Chorus
C D
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High flyin baby, high flyin baby keep your head, o yea
C D
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-3/5-------------3/5--------------------5/7--------7\---|
-3/5-------------3/5--------------------5/7--------7\---|
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High flyin baby, high flyin baby keep your head
Instrumental
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C G
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C G
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-3/5--3/5---0-0--3\0--0-0-----5\3--|
-3/5--3/5---0-0--3\0--0-0-----5\3--|
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D
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C Bb G C Bb G
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G
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Chorus
C D
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High flyin baby, high flyin baby keep your head, o yea
C D
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High flyin baby, high flyin baby keep your head
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Verse 2 (same pattern)
C
See that girl with the basket on
G
baby she not here she completly gone yea
C
She got the cards, baby got no care
G
when she got the words it's a real affair
D
Well you should take that baby down to the Kansas star
C Bb G C Bb G
I'll take that baby wherever i go
Chorus (repeat a few times and then fade out)
C D
High Flyin'Baby, high flyin baby keep your head, o yea
