I Should Have Been Home

	  		Blaze Foley is strumming the chords while individually picking out the notes outlined in the tab. 

Standard Tuning  
INTRO 

 Am                     Am                    Am        G          Am 
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|----0---------------||----0---------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| 
|-----------0--------||0h3--------0--------||0h3--------3--------||-----------0--------| 
 Am                    F                     Am                    Em 
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|-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------| 
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||-----------2--------| 
|0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------| 
 Am                    F                     Am        E           Am 
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|0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------| 
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| 
|--------------------||----1---------------||-----------0--------||-----------0--------| 
Am 
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|0h3--------0--------| 



verse 1 

Saw a dancin' young lady, who worked in a bar... 
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A dozen lone rangers, don't know who they are... 
 Am                    E                           
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The waitress was spinnin', my head was ajar... 
 Am                    F                           
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And I should have bee home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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 Am                                              
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|0h3-----------------| 


verse 2 

Saw a reelin' old drunk man, dancin' around... 
 Am                    F                           
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Thought his gray whiskers, still must have been brown... 
 Am                    E                           
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Ida Lupino, wouldn't keep her dress down... 
 Am                    F                           
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I should have been home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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 Am                                              
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|0h3-----------------| 


INTERLUDE 

Am                    F                     Am                    Em 
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|-----------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------| 
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||-----------2--------| 
|0h3-----------------||----1---------------||--------------------||----0---------------| 
 Am                    F                     Am        E           Am 
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|0h2--------0h2------||2p0-----------------||0h2---0h2-----------||--------------------| 
|----0---------------||--------------------||----0---------------||0h2-0---------------| 
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Am 
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|----0---------------| 
|0h3-----------------| 


verse 3 

The band rock and rolled, but it wasn't the best... 
 Am                    F                           
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Nearly all of them, all sound like the rest... 
 Am                    E                           
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Some girls look pretty, but you were the best... 
 Am                    F                           
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That's why I came home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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 Am                                              
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|0h3-----------------| 


verse 4 

Got home about daylight, I been gone too long... 
 Am                    F                           
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Woke up at eleven, and saw you were gone... 
 Am                    E                           
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So I drank lots of coffee, and wrote you this song... 
 Am                    F                           
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I wish I'd have been home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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I wish I'd have been home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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I wish I'd have been home with you... 
 E                    Am                          
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 Am                                          
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|0h3--------0h3------| 



E Major or E Minor? For me it's difficult to hear as the chord is being picked mostly. 
I used to play it with E Minor only but haven't seen anyone else doing it so figured I was wrong. 
Feel free to correct me. This won't make any difference to the notes in the tab anyway. 

I also did a version with travis picking if anyone is interested.