Back To The Family

Capo 2, or transpose up 1 full step. 
Lyrics not guaranteed! 
 
 
Intro Lick: 
 
(C) (G) (Em) (A) (Asus2) 
e|---------------|---------------|----------------|---------------|---0--> 
(B)|---------------|---------------|----------------|---------------|---0--> 
(G)|--0h2-p0----0--|---------------|----------------|---------------|---2--> 
(D)|---------------|--0h2-p0-------|--0--------0h2--|------------2--|---2--> 
(A)|--3->----------|------------3--|-----------0h2--|--0---------0--|---0--> 
(E)|---------------|--3->----------|-------3--------|-------3----0--|------ 
x x x x x x x x x x x x 
 
 
Lick #2: 
 
This one is played behind most of the verses, during the ‘(G)‘ chord. 
The tab below assumes you‘re playing an open (G) (300023); just work 
this pattern into your finger-picking, if any. It also sounds nice 
when moved down an octave, but you need to go to dropped-(D) tuning. 
 
e|----------------|----------------| (Played twice behind 1st 
(B)|--0--0h1--0-----|----------------| line of each verse) 
(G)|-------------2--|--0--0----------| 
(D)|----------------|--------0h2--0--| 
(A)|----------------|----------------| 
(E)|----------------|----------------| 
 
 
Verse 1: 
 
(G) 
My telephone wakes me in the morning. Have to get up to answer the call, 
(F) (C) (G) (F) (C) (G) 
So I think I‘ll go back to the family, where no one can ring me at all. 
 
 
Verse 2: 
 
(G) 
Living this life has its problems, so I think that I‘ll give it a break. 
(F) (C) (G) (F) (C) (G) 
Oh, I‘m going back to the family, ‘cause I‘ve had about all I can take. 
 
 
Repeat intro lick, then: 
 
(Am) (C) (D) (C) 
Master‘s in the counting house, counting all his money. 
(D) (C) 
Sister‘s sitting by the mirror, she thinks her hair looks funny. 
(G) (Bb) (C) (D) 
And here am I thinking to myself, just a-wondering what it pays to do. 
 
 
Solo 1 (bass/flute) 
 
Alternate (D) & (C), then end on (Asus2) 
 
 
Verse 3: 
 
(G) 
I think I enjoyed all my problems, where I did not get nothing for free. 
(F) (C) (G) (F) (C) (G) 
Oh, I‘m going back to the family, doing nothing is bothering me. 
 
 
Verse 4: 
 
(G) 
I‘ll get a train back to the city. The soft life is getting me down. 
(F) (C) (G) (F) (C) (G) 
There‘s more fun away from the family, get some action when I roll into town. 
 
 
Repeat intro lick, then: 
 
(Am) (C) (D) (C) 
Everything I do is wrong. What the hell was I thinking? 
(D) (C) 
Phone keeps ringing all day long, I got no time for thinking. 
(G) (Bb) (C) (D) 
And every day has the same old way, they‘re giving me too much to do. 
 
 
Solos (bass/flute, then guitar, then all fade) (D) (C) (D) (C) ...