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Song title:      Window on the World
Original Album:	 Beneath This Gruff Exterior

Words and Music by John Hiatt
Copyright © 2003 New West Records
Published by ??? Music Publishing

Transcribed by Gavin Chart (contactus@gartfrets.net)


NOTES:
Capo on 2. Chords and tab are relative to capo. Timing is 4/4.



INTRO:
Chords:
D  xx0232


[play 4/4| D |]  [x4]



VERSE1:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432


| D                  | G        D
    A broken promise I kept too long

| D                      | A
    A greasy shade and the curtains drawn

| D                    | G          D
    A broken glass and a heart gone wrong

| Bm          A           | D
    That's my window on the world



VERSE2:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432

| D                    | G     D
    A cup of coffee in a shaky hand

| D              | A
    Wakin' up in a foreign land

| D                        | G         D
    Tryin' to act like I got somethin' planned

| Bm          A           | D
    That's my window on the world



CHORUS1:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432


| D                | G      D
    That's my window on the world

| Bm                       | G       D
    Could you stand a little closer, girl?

| Bm             | G       | A
    Don't let mama cut those curls

        | A             D
That's my window on the world



[Slide guitar SOLO over VERSE chords]



VERSE3:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432


| D                       | G      D
    In broad daylight, that circus tent

| D                              | A
    Pulled up stakes, I don't know where it went

| D                        | G      D
    A close dark room with a busted vent

| Bm          A           | D
    That's my window on the world



VERSE4:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432


| D                          | G        D                   
    I think about you when I'm countin' sheep

| D                      | A
    I think about you then I can't sleep

| D                     | G       D             
    I think that ocean is just so deep

| Bm          A           | D
    That's my window on the world



CHORUS2:
Chords:
D   xx0232    A   x02220
G   320003    Bm  x24432


| D                | G      D
    That's my window on the world

| Bm                       | G      D
    Could you stand a little closer girl

| Bm                           | G       A 
    The Queen of Sheba meets the Duke of Earle

        | A             D
That's my window on the world



[Slide guitar solo over VERSE chords]



VERSE5:
Chords:
D   xx0232
G   320003
A   x02220


| D               | G   D
    Down on Indiana Ave-nue

| D                        | A
    Wes and Jimmy, man, they played the blues

| D                      | G       D
    I guess they were only passin' through

| Bm          A           | D
    That's my window on the world


[repeat CHORUS1]

[repeat CHORUS2]

[end on D]