John Cougar Mellencamp - Sweet evening breeze
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Date: Sat, 15 Nov 1997 02:38:35 -0500
From: "Paul M. Berens" <berensp@bc.edu>
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: m/mellencamp_john/sweet_evening_breeze.crd
"Sweet Evening Breeze"
by John Mellencamp
This a lesser-known tune off the "Human Wheels" album, but a fun one to
play acoustic. It oscillates between meditative picking and exciting
strumming. Notice my naming conventions with D/Dsus2 and D/Dsus4 below.
Enjoy.
INTRO: (Asus2)
E|----------------------0------------------------------------------------|
B|----------------0---------------------0--------------------------------|
G|----------2--------2-----------2---------2-----------(repeat-4-times)--|
D|-------2-----2--------------2---------------2--------------------------|
A|----0------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|
VERSE: (Asus2,G,D [&Dsus4])
E|----------------------0-------------------------------------------3----|
B|----------------0---------------------0---------------------0----------|
G|----------2--------2-----------2---------2------------0--------0-------|
D|-------2-----2--------------2---------------2------0-----0-------------|
A|----0------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|------------------------------------------------3----------------------|
<-------"D/Dsus2"----------> <-----D/Dsus4-----------------------|
E|----------------0-----0h2------------3-----2------3----2-----------------|
B|----------3--------3---------3------------------3----3-------------------|
G|-------2-----2-----------------2--------2-----2----2---------------------|
D|----0--------------------------------0-----0-----0-----0-----------------|
A|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
E|-------------------------------------------------------------------------|
*if you can get the above, you can surely make up a similar picking
pattern for the C and Em progressions which are next.
VERSE 1:
Asus2I was loud and a liGttle sad.
D/Dsus2She was visiting from AD/Dsus4tlanta, Georgia.
Asus2She had come to spend the sGummer with her dad.
D/Dsus2I thought she was D/Dsus4very pretty.
CWe would kiss and hold Emhands
CEvery night by the Emfootball field.
CHer body was tEman
>From thD/Dsus2e afternoons by the public swimming pool.
CHORUS: (strum these chords)
Asus2Sweet evening bGreeze
Blows around my tAsus2houghts and memoGries.
As I lie here tAsus2oday
And drink my tGea,
DI can still see Dsus4 D
Asus2 / G / Asus2 / G / Asus2 / G / Asus2 / G
Sweet evening breeze.
VERSE 2:
Asus2I saw her in a cGoffee shop
D/Dsus2In a big hotel down in D/Dsus4Austin, Texas.
Asus2She had cut her Glong hair off
D/Dsus2And replaced it with
Blue eGyes oDf sGad - nDess.
CStill acted like we were Emkids
C *Fill*
And she told me that she had to marry
CAnd she asked me if I Emdid
D/Dsus2Still remember.
CHORUS
VERSE 3:
Asus2How redundant the fGuture can be.
These D/Dsus2days of old are D/Dsus4very, very
Asus2Ridiculous for Gme to see
When I D/Dsus2think about the Greal Dgone Gstor - iDes
CAnd how time holds the winning Emhand.
C *Fill*
I can tell by the lines on our faces
CAnd the young can't underEmstand
That they D/Dsus2look at me
When they look at themselves.
CHORUS
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FILL: CHORDS:
E|----------------------------------------------------| e b g d a E
B|----0---0---0---0---------| Asus2 | 0 0 2 2 0 0-|
G|--------------------------| G | 3 0 0 0 2 3-|
D|--------------------------| D | 2 3 2 0-----|
A|----2---0-----------------| Dsus2 | 0 3 2 0-----|
E|------------3---2---------| Dsus4 | 3 3 2 0-----|
C | 0 1 0 2 3
Em | 0 0 0 2 2 0