Tab Benoit - Gone Too Long

      [Intro] hold on G for 4 bars while lead riff plays over the top (percussive down stroke with rake up)
G


[Verse] (percussive down stroke with rake up holding on the 1)
G
Now every time I ask you where you gone
G
You wave bye bye and you blow your horn
G
You been ridin' around in your Cadillac
G
It feels like you're never ever comin' back


[Chorus] (shuffle)
C                                   C
You been gone so long
G                                   G
You been gone too long
D
You been gone so long
C                          G                  D
It feels like you're never comin' home


[Verse] (percussive down stroke with rake up holding on the 1)
G
I need somebody who treats me right
G
Keeps me warm in my bed at night
G
I'll do anything, baby, that you ask me to
G
Just come right home, honey, when you're through


[Chorus] (shuffle)
C                                   C
You been gone so long
G                                   G
You been gone too long
D
You been gone so long
C                          G                  D
It feels like you're never comin' home


[Solo] ( Straight 12 bar) 

G-G-G-G C-C G-G D C G C  x 2 (24 bars)


[Verse] (percussive down stroke with rake up holding on the 1)
G
I drive all night and part of the day
G
All for the love of the blues I play
G
But the only thing that keeps me sane
G
Is drivin' down the Bayou in the pourin' rain, y'all


[Chorus] (shuffle)
C                                   C
You been gone so long
G                                   G
You been gone too long
D
You been gone so long
C                          G                  D
It feels like you're never comin' home


[Solo] (Straight 12 bar) 

G-G-G-G C-C G-G D C G C  x 2 (24 bars)


[Outro]
G                              G
I been gone too long
G                              G
I been gone too long
C                               C
I been gone too long
G                 G
Baby, baby, I been gone
D
I been a gone, forgone
C                          G                  D
It feels sometimes like I'm never gettin' home