Tuning: E A D G B E

Tabbed by: steveogrady@hotmail.com Originally posted at http://www.indieguitartabs.com/bands/damien_jurado/johnny_go_riding.html In standard tuning, no capo. (Though I more often play it all half a step down but thats due more to my personal obsession with this tuning than anything else) The whole song is essentially just (same pattern for every verse). --------------

^Dsus2Johnny lets go out riding to a ^Gplace outside of town I ^Dsus2go there every Sunday to ^Gwatch the sun go down There's ^Dsus2plenty of girls who know you, they've been ^Gasking where you've been ^AJohnny don't dissapoint them, they'd ^Gall like to see you again

^Dsus2Willy I don't think im ready to ^Gleave this house of mine ^Dsus2You go out and tell them I'm ^Gnot the social kind ^Dsus2Some men they are lovers and ^Gothers the fighting type And ^Ame I'm in the middle of ^Gchoosing which one I'd like..... to be

^Dsus2Judy she's out catching ^Grides in passing cars ^Dsus2The memories of me and her have ^Gburned out like the stars ^Dsus2Me I'm not dissapointed ^Gknowing that she's free ^ASomewhere down the line I knew she'd ^Gone day up and leave

^Dsus2Willy forget your troubles and ^Glay back on the grass There's ^Dsus2no need to get nostalgic ^Gthinking about the past What's ^Dsus2gone is gone, what's here is now, she's ^Gstanding by your fence She's ^Awearing a beautiful party dress and ^Gwanting you to dance..... hey hey.

----- But the real flavour of the song is in all the little runs and hammer-ons, a lot of the time the first strum of the Dsus2 hammers on as below: e|--0----| B|--3----| G|--0h2--| D|--0----| A|-------| E|-------| and at the end of the G (particularly in the instrumental sections) there's often a run down on the D string something like this: e|-----------------| B|-----------------| G|-----------------| D|--4-4-4-4-2-0-0--| A|--0-0-0-0-0-0-0--| E|-----------------| ************************************ | h Hammer-on ************************************

Damien Jurado - Johnny go riding