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TABBY CAT MUSIC ARCHIVES 

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Transcribed by: asf0@comcast.net  Alice Franceschini
Date:  June 8, 1999
Album:  When Fallen Angels Fly
Written by:  Gary Burr
Note: This song is based on tension notes and runs.  I've indicated
This by using 1.2.or 3. which represent the notes to be played during
That part of the song.  I've also added chords to this song where there
Isn't any on the recording.  Listen to the recording for timing.

I TRY TO THINK ABOUT ELVIS    Patty Loveless

Piano chord B rolled up several octaves
"Oh I'm sorry I forgot where I was"  (1, 2, 3)

Guitar parts to song
1.               2.            3.
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--------------|------4-5-6-7--|---------------
-7-7-7-7-7ect-|---7-----------|--7-5---------
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1.                    E                     
I try to think about Elvis, Memphis, 

Oprah in the afternoon
2.                     A
I try to think about palm trees, fig leaves, 
1.     E                          3.
The creature from the Black Lagoon
1.                         E
I try to think about high heels and good deals
E                    C#m
Anything to get me through
B
I just can't concentrate
A                   C#m          E   
You're all I think about these days
1.                        E
Try to contem-plate the cosmos what goes

Round and round the sky at night
2.                      A
I try to think about champagne, freight trains
E
Slowly rolling out of sight
                       E  
I try to focus on the head lights street crimes
                      C#m
Everytime I think I might
B     
I just can't concentrate
A             C#m               E    
You're all I think about these days
    E        C#m              F#       
** My mind wanders where it will
           A              E
When it settles right on you
      C#m                F# 
I for-get what I should say 
       A                  B 
I for-get what I should I do  Lead, repeat from **, go to key change

Key change

"Aaa come on Patty get it together"
                        F#
I try to think about Shakespeare, leap year

The Beatles or the Rolling Stones
                       B
I try to tnink about hairdos, tattoos
                      F#      
Sushi bars and saxo-phones
F#                    
I try to  think about the talk shows, new clothes
                           D#m
But I guess I should have known
C#              
I just can't concentrate
B             C#               F#   G# 
You're all I think about these days-ays
B             C#               F#
You're all I think about these days