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My Waterloo
by Walter Becker
from the album 11 Tracks of Whack
INTRO: r C r C r C r Dm C Dm
(rhythm: 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4, etc..)
r=1/4 rest
VERSE:
Eb F Eb F
i came a long long way from home
C(xii) Bm7 C(xii) Bm7
i travelled far just to be here today
repeat.... across an endless sea of salty tears
behind a dividing line of eighteen years
CHORUS: (play these riffs over the intro chords):
riff1:
C Dm
G--12--12--12-12-12-14-----12-------
D-----------------------14----12h14-
you got to walk that road alone
riff2:
C Dm
G--12--12--12-12-12-14--------------
D----------------------12h14--12----
you got to walk that lonely
VERSE: same as the first..
little riff: e--6gb7---8-6----- gb=gradual bend
b-------------8---
g---------------8--7h8--5---
i've worn my heart out on my sleeve
a sight you surely must have spied by now
(little riff)
i admit that i dont even know youre name
but i feel like i could know you all the same
CHORUS: same music also
(riff1) are you gonna walk that road with me?
(riff2) or is it gonna be that lonely?
(riff1) are you gonna walk that road with me sometime?
(riff2) dont make me be that lonely
SOLO: Dm (on 2 and 4, for 4 measures) Cm (same rhythm, same duration)
BRIDGE: (continue on as above for 8 more measures)
Dm
it's still no easy thing to hold your head up high
Cm
ev'ry time you turn around somebody knocks your statue down
VERSE3: (back to the normal verse music, without the little riff)
I tried my best to hold my ground
I swore i'd never let it be this way
but now i dropped my sword and broke my gun
just like some tragic beat Napoleon
CHORUS:
(riff1) Now i gotta walk that road again
(riff2) now i gotta walk that lonely
(riff1) Now i gotta walk that road again, one time
(riff2) now i gotta be that lonely
VERSE4: (same verse music, but with the little riff where indicated)
little riff
what with no better way to go
as long as i'm still kicking that gun around around
little riff
i see this time i met my match in you
i know now that you are my waterloo
(with the chorus chords and riffs, for 16 measures:)
my waterloo...
i know know that you are my
i know know that you are my waterloo, etc...
waterloo...
(ends abrupbtly on the Dm chord)
CHORD SHAPES:
because the shapes are so high on the neck, I'll just spell
them out this way...
C(viii) 8-X-10-9-8-8
Dm 10-X-12-11-10-10
Eb 11-X--13-12-11-11
F 13-X-15-14-13-13
C(xii) X-X-14-12-13-12
Bm7 X-14-16-14-15-14
Cm 8-X-10-8-8-8