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Cocaine Tab

by Jackson Browne


Hi all! This is not how jackson plays it, it is a simplyfied version acoustic guitar 
basic chords.

The chords are G, D, and C. You can add in solos between verses if you like, anything in 
scale of G works well. You can use any basic strumming rythms. It helps to get quieter 
slower towards the end of the piece.

It's a very free-flowing song, so it helps to experiment to get your own style of playing.


Intro:    

                   

You take Sally, and I'll take Sue

                         
There ain't no difference between the two

                             
Cocaine, running all around my brain*


Headin' down Scott


And turning out Maine


Lookin for that girl


who sells cocaine

                              
Cocaine, running all around my brain

           
Oohh, mama, please come quick,

                  
That old cocaine's gonna make me sick

                             
Cocaine, running all around my brain*

                      
Late one night about a quarter past four

                     
Ladanyi knock down my hotel room door

                                  
"Where's the cocaine?" I said it's running all around my brain*


   

                      
Went to see the doctor down the hospital

                                   (fade chord)
He said, "Son it says here your 27, but that's impossible"

                                   
Cocaine, "You look like you could be 45."


   

(slow down on this next verse)


Now I'm losing touch with reality


I'm on my final blow

                        
It's such a fine line, I hate to see it go,

                             
Cocaine, running all around my brain

(optional) Short solo in G scale or G D G C,  then G7.


*Optional solo