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"With My Face On The Floor"
(Emitt Rhodes)

Notes from AWR:  The key riff of the song can be expressed as one or
more measures in 6/4 time, usually followed by a measure in 2/4:

(piano arr. for guitar):

(6/4)                         (2/4)
v   v   v   v   v   v         v   v
-------------------------|    ---------
-------------8-----------|    ---------
-------8-------10------8-|    ---8---8-
---8-10----10------8-10--|    ---------
-10----------------------|    ---------
-------------------------|    ---------

Intro:

(6/4 measure w/piano; 2 6/4 measures w/band; 2/4 measure w/band)

Verse 1:

EbEb Piano Chord 
         Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
         EbEb Piano Chord 

Well, I'm down with my face on the floor
EbEb Piano Chord 
         Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
          EbEb Piano Chord 

Yes, I got what I asked for and more
GG Piano Chord 
        CmCm Piano Chord 
           FF Piano Chord 
                 Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
  EbEb Piano Chord 

Well, the moment she stepped through that door
Ab/BbAb/Bb Piano Chord 
         BbBb Piano Chord 
         Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
   EbEb Piano Chord 

I was down with my face on the floor

(6/4 measure w/piano; 6/4 measure w/band; 2/4 measure w/band)

Verse 2:

Now I'm standin' with back to the wall
Waitin', prayin, see [unintelligible] fall
Well, I must have been onto it all
Now I'm standin' with back to the wall

(6/4 measure w/band; fuzz guitar doubles piano octave lower)

FF Piano Chord 
                    AbAb Piano Chord 

Well now she's gone away, just in time to say
Eb (6/4 measure w/fuzz guitar)
I'll drop you a line  (drop you a line)
FF Piano Chord 
                    AbAb Piano Chord 

Well now she's gone away, just in time to say
Eb (6/4 and 2/4 measures w/fuzz guitar)
I'll see you sometime

(guitar solo over verse chords)

(6/4 measure w/fuzz guitar)

(repeat chorus)

(repeat verse 1)

Coda:

(rit.)

GG Piano Chord 
         CmCm Piano Chord 
         FF Piano Chord 
                  Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
   EbEb Piano Chord 

Well, the moment she stepped through that door
Ab/BbAb/Bb Piano Chord 
         BbBb Piano Chord 
         Ab/EbAb/Eb Piano Chord 
  EbEb Piano Chord 

I was down with my face on the floor

(6/4 measure w/piano; repeat 6/4 measure w/band to fade)

-- another ace 70's tab from Andrew Rogers