2K If I Was the Priest chords

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If I Was The Priest
by Bruce Springsteen
(Hammond Demos version)
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This is (approximately) how I like to play the intro on guitar:
Listen to the record to get the rhytms.

Slowly

 G      C/G       G7     C/G

 --------0-------I1-------0-------I
 3-------1-------I3-------1-------I
 0--0---------0--I----0--------0--I
 ----------------I----------------I
 ----------------I----------------I
 3-3--3--3-33---3I3-3---3-3-3-3--3I

VERSE

          G               D                  Em      D     C
There's a light on yonder mountain  and it's callin' me to shine
          G                 D                  Em     D     C
There's a girl by the water fountain and she's asking to be mine
    G                       D                 Em            D         C
And Jesus's standing in the doorway, buckskin jacket, boots and spurs...
               G                         D  
He says now we need you son  up in Dodge City  because there's
  Em               D              C             G   C/G  G7  C/G
  just too many outlaws tryin' to work the same line

CHORUS
            G			      D
Well now if Jesus was the sheriff and I was the priest if my
   Em                      D  C                        
   lady was an heiress and my mama was a thief   oh and
   G                 D             C     Am 
   papa rode shotgun for the Fargo line
   Em             D                  C             G
   still too many bad boys tryin' to work the same line


The rest of the verses are similar, expect after the
'by some kind of magic'-line there's a short break like this:

  G7       C         G7        C
 I        I         I         I         I

- Note that although the beginning of the chorus looks similar
  to the verse, the change from Em to D occurs later.

- One more thing: the chord changes may not be exactly on the
  right places, because a) Bruce sometimes has a very unique
  sense of timing when he sings and b) the notes I had for this
  were hard to read even for myself.

	
	Antti
        amkauppi@plootu.helsinki.fi