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Date: 10/10/01; 9:56:41 PM
From: "Charlie" <crex7@earthlink.net>
Subject: Riding With Private Malone by David Ball
Transcribed by Steve Cox
Riding With Private Malone
By: David Ball
NOTE: Most of the chords are finger picking variations
listen to the song and use the chord form to guide you.
STANDARD TUNING: EADGBe
Intro:
E --------------------------------0--------------------------
B -------------------------------0---------------------------
G --1h2----2-2--------------1----------------------------
D --2-------2-2-(x3)-------2-----------------------------
A --2-------2-2------------2------------------------------
E --------------------------0--------------------------------
VERSE 1
E
I was just out of the service thumbin' through the classifieds
A
When an ad that said old chevy somehow caught my eye
E
The lady didn't know the year or even if it ran
A B E
But I had that thousand dollars in my hand
E
It was way back in the in corner of this old ramshackle barn
A
With thirty years of dust and dirt on that green army tarp
B A
When I pulled the cover off it took away my breath
A B E
What she called a chevy was a sixty-six corvette
C#m B
I felt a little guilty as I counted out the bills
E A B
What a thrill I got when I sat behind the wheel
E
I opened up the glove box and that's when I found the note
A B
E
The date was nineteen sixty-six and this is what he wrote
CHORUS
C#m B A B
My name is private Andrew Malone
C#m B A B
If your reading this then I didn't make it home
B C#m A
B
But for every dream that's shatered another one comes true
A A B
B
This car was once a dream of mine now it belongs to you
E B A
B
And though you may take her and make her your own
A A B B (repeat intro)
You'll always be riding with private malone
VERSE 2
E
It didn't take me long at all I had her runnin' good
A
I loved to hear those horses thunder underneath her hood
E
I had her shinin' like a diamond and I'd put the rag top down
A B
E
All the pretty girls would stop and stare as I drove her thruogh town
C#m B
The buttons on the radio didn't seem to work quite right
E A
B
But it picked up that oldies show especially late at night
E
I'd get the feelin' sometimes if I turned real quick I'd see
A B
E
A soldier riding shotgun in the seat right next to me
CHORUS
C#m B A B
It was a young man named private Andrew Malone
C#m B A B
Who fought for his country and never made it home
B C#m A
B
But for every dream that's shatered there's another that comes true
A A B
B
This car was once a dream of his back when it was new
E B A B
And he told me to take her and make her my own
A A B B (repeat
intro)
And I was proud to be riding with private malone
VERSE 3
A A B B
One night it was raining hard I took a curb to fast
E A B
I still don't remember much about that firey crash
E
Someone said they thought they saw a soldier pull me out
A B E
They didn't get his name but I know without a doubt
CHORUS
C#m B A B
It was a young man named private Andrew Malone
C#m B A B
Who fought for his country and never made it home
B C#m A
B
But for every dream that shaters there's another that comes true
A A B
B
This car was once a dream of his back when it was new
E B A
B
And I know I wouldn't be here if he hadn't tagged along
A A B B (repeat intro)
Yeah that night I was riding with private malone
A A B B (repeat intro)
Oh thank god I was riding with private malone
E
Private malone....