Titel: Ragdoll Blues 
Artiest: zita swoon
Album: I paint pictures on a wedding dress

A Beatband/Zita Swoon - Ragdoll Blues


Music & lyrics by Stef Kamil Carlens

Tabbed by Jeroen.Schepens@rug.ac.be

This isn't a normal tab, it's more of an interpretation of the way I play this song.

Chord progression:

'A beatband' version:  F Bb C 
(if I'm not mistaken this is the way Zita Swoon still plays it live)

'Zita Swoon' version: Eb Ab Bb 

'My' version (1/2 tone higher than ZS-version): E A D
play your E as '076xxx' or '076400'

Main guitar riff: 
(as I play it!!!  So change the key to play along with the record)

G ------------------------------
D ------6---7-6-----------------       repeat all over
A --7-----7-----7-----------6--- 
E ----------------5---7---7---7-

Riff played by clarinet/piano: (can be played by another guitar)

e -------------------
B -----9---10-9------
G -9-----9------11-9-      repeat all over
D -------------------


Lyrics:

Ragdoll Blues
I got brand new shoes
I got hotel, motel
But I ain't got no place to go

Inside, outside
Baby take me down
Spill my name on your sacred ground
Bring your friends
Bring 'em 'round
Make them hear how their life would sound
With a bad case of Ragdoll Blues

Pour me coffee
Baby it smells so fine
It brings me back from crying time
I got brandy
I got candy
I'm a superstar
Yeah I'm stumbling right out of my whiskey bar
With my Ragdoll Blues

Hey, I know momma
I know I'm wrong
And life's not to waste
And death won't be long
But I got me this picture
Of the precious taboo
And they got me convicted
Yeah, I'm crying my blues
I'm not being sober
I'm not being true
I got hearts
I got cards
I got Valentine Charts
I got them banging from the street 
up the sidewalk
They are hanging from a tree
on the junkyard
They are flying to the stars
Driving cool cars
They are stumbling right out of whiskey bars
with my Ragdoll Blues

It's not your perfume 
It's not your style
It's the way you drive me out of my head
You drive me wild
By looking sober
By looking clean
I see you wiggling your ass down
on the cool-dude-scene
Oh I got Ragdoll Blues
Just another bad case of Ragdoll Blues