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 ...