Nutbush City Limits | Chords + Lyrics
Intro
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x3
| C | C | G | G |
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Verse 1
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
A church house, gin house. A school house, outhouse.
On Highway Number Nineteen. The people keep the city clean.
| C | C | G | G |
They call it Nutbush, oh, Nutbush.
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Call it Nutbush city limits.
Verse 2
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
Twenty-five was the speed limit. Motorcycle not allowed in it.
You go to store on Fridays. You go to church on Sundays.
| C | C | G | G |
They call it Nutbush, that little ol’ town, oh, Nutbush.
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
They call it Nutbush city limits.
Verse 3
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
You go to field on weekdays. And have a picnic on Labor Day.
You go to town on Saturdays. But go to church ev’ry Sunday.
| C | C | G | G |
They call it Nutbush, oh, Nutbush.
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
They call it Nutbush city limits.
Solo
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
| C | C | G | G |
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Verse 4
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
No whiskey for sale. You get caught, no bail.
Saltpork and molasses. Is all you get in jail.
| C | C | G | G |
They call it Nutbush, oh, Nutbush.
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Yeah, they call it Nutbush city. Nutbush city limits
Outro
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Little old town in Tennessee.
It’s called a quiet, little old community.
A one-horse town. You have to watch what you’re puttin’ down.
In old Nutbush. They call it Nutbush.
Nutbush City Limits chords, progression, and TAB
Tina Turner mainly sang covers but in the case of Nutbush City Limits, she actually wrote it.
The chords are the same throughout with only a few small tweaks. The intro repeats the A chords three times rather than four. The outro stays on the A chords to fade.
Apart from these small arrangement tweaks, Nutbush City Limits chords are just this:
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :|| x4
| C | C | G | G |
||: A A6 A A6 A | A7 A6 A A6 A :||
Using TAB, the riff is played over the A chords is a nice variation on Chuck Berry‘s classic Honky Tonk riff. When Ike plays it in Nutbush, it looks like this:
For the C and G chords, you could adopt this riff to suit these chords as well, or, you could just play them staright, maybe vary the chord shapes.
Should you want to play along with the original recording, you might find it nicer to tune up a few Hz to around 444. My free online guitar tuner can help you with this.
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Tina Turner
Tina was discovered by Ike Turner, joined his band, and even married him. Together they achieved great success with many hits.
Off stage, Ike was an abusive husband, when they divorced Tina would embark on a remarkable solo career and Ike would end up the most hated man in America.
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