Shawn Mullins - The great unknown
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Capo: 1
Tuning: E A D G B E
Title: The Great Unknown
Artist: Shawn Mullins
Album: My Stupid Heart
Transcribed by Scott Mayer
From a youtube clip of Shawn playing it live. Written by Shawn and Chuck Cannon.
Chuck plays it different to Shawn but both do it superbly.
Capo 1st Fret
A standard G can be used instead of the Gadd9 if desired. Still sounds sweet.
Chords used
C Gadd9 Am Fmaj7 Fmaj9 F
E----------0------------3------------0-----------0------------0------------1
B----------1------------0------------1-----------1------------1------------1
G----------0------------0------------2-----------2------------0------------2
D----------2------------0------------2-----------3------------3------------3
A----------3------------0------------0-----------0------------3------------3
E----------0------------3------------0-----------0------------0------------1
INTRO
C Fmaj9 x 3
CIt’s Friday night and I’mFmaj9 back agaiCn Fmaj9
CWith my oAmld guitar and my Gadd9trustyFmaj7 grin
And aGadd9 best you don’t come in here sAmign
Fmaj7Tattooed on this Gadd9heart of Cmine Fmaj9 C Fmaj9
CFrom a dirty brown shag Fmaj9carpet staCge Fmaj9
CI sing my sAmongs and I Gadd9pace theFmaj7 cage
Gadd9Stuck up here in the twilight zAmone
Fmaj7Staring out into the Gadd9great unCknown Fmaj9 C Fmaj9
CThere’s an old Hank Williams Fmaj9figurineC
AmHanging by a gGadd9uitar stFring
From the pull Gadd9chain of the Pabst Blue Ribbon Amsign
Fmaj7With a clock that’s stopped onGadd9 half past Cnine Fmaj9
CYeah the time ain’t changed roundFmaj9 here in yearCs
AmSame sad Gadd9story, same oFld tears
Gadd9Ain’t nobody wants to be Amalone
Fmaj7Out here in the Gadd9great unkCnown Fmaj9 C Fmaj9
CYou can find the stool thFmaj9ere at the baCr Fmaj9
CDesigned to tAmake you Gadd9nowhereFmaj7 far
Gadd9They got a mirror back behind the whiskey sAmhelf
Fmaj7Where we don’t dare look bacGadd9k at ourCselves Fmaj9
CJust past the men’s room Fmaj9down the halCl Fmaj9
CBarely haAmnging there on a pGadd9laster Fmaj7wall
Gadd9A faded sticker on the old paAmyphone
Fmaj7Says welcome to the Gadd9great unknCown Fmaj9 C Fmaj9
CIt’s out beyond the Fmaj9yonder staCr Fmaj9
CIt’s Amall up in there Gadd9where you Fmaj7are
Gadd9By some cosmic wind we’re bAmlown
Fmaj7Out into the Gadd9great unkCnown Fmaj9 C Fmaj9
CHopes and dreams andFmaj9 ash and dustC Fmaj9
CIt all Amseems to eitherGadd9 rot orFmaj7 rust
Gadd9Souls wrapped in in flesh and bAmone
Fmaj7Heartbeats in the Gadd9great unkCnown Fmaj9
CIt’s Friday night and I’mFmaj9 back againC