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Song title:      Native Son
Original Album:	 Walk On

Words and Music by John Hiatt
Copyright © 1995 Capitol Records Inc
Published by UMG Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


INTRO:
Notes:
Electric piano and wah wah guitar play over the chords below,

Chords:
Em  022000    G     320003
D   xx0232    D/F#  2x023x
C   x32010


[play: 4/4| Em D | Em | G C | G D/F#

          | Em D | Em | G C | G |]


VERSE1:
Chords:
Em  x79987 or 022000    G   355433 or 320003
D   x57775 or xx0232    C   x35553 or x32010


                    | Em         D | Em                     | G   C | G
You finally found the mainstream        in the middle of your life

                | Em      C          | Em
You tapped into a vein of endless gold chains.

           C       | G    C | G
Now you're locked up tight


               | Em           D | Em         C      | G   C | G
Tearing down the middle of it         cut it right in half

                      | Em           D     | Em         C       | G   C | G 
Bobbing up and down the waves like a runaway slave on a Huck Finn raft



CHORUS:
Chords:
Em  022000    G   320003
D   xx0232    B7  x21202
C   x32010


        | Em    D       | Em         C       | G   C | G
Take your wife, take your family and take your gun

                  | Em            C                 | Em
Running through the woods and the burned out neighbourhoods,

        C     | G   C | G
Looking for someone

               | Em       C           | Em            C       | G   C | G
A member of your tribe, a place you can hide 'til the war has begun

            | B7                Em
'Cause in the fields before the flood,

| C                  Em         | C      G  | C | G
  You'll be spilling blood like a native son



VERSE2:
Notes:
Play as for VERSE1.

Chords:
Em  x79987 or 022000    G   355433 or 320003
D   x57775 or xx0232    C   x35553 or x32010


              | Em      D | Em                   | G      C | G
Where you gonna run to?        There ain't no underground

                  Em        C            | Em         C   | G     C | G
If only you could fly you'd cut across the sky like a rifle round

                 Em      D | Em         C             G        C | G
Oh, who are your people?        Tell me where is your homeland      

                           | Em        | C        Em
'Cause they're dying side by side at the river of pride

       | C               G     C | G
Where we tried to take a stand



[repeat CHORUS]  [x2]

                       | Em
In the fields before the flood, 

| C                  Em         | C      G   C | G
  You'll be spilling blood like a native son



OUTRO:
Chords:
Em  x79987 or 022000    G   355433 or 320003
D   x57775 or xx0232    C   x35553 or x32010


[play out over | Em | C | Em | C | G |]