Gypsy Woman Chords

Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

F E Am D/F♯

Verse

FI was a fEool I was sAmo much younger thenD/F♯

FThe night she tEook me by surprisAme

FI should have knEown all the troAmuble that I'd be iD/F♯n

FBut then she hooEked me with those eyAmes

FHer drink was gEin as she said toAmnight would never enD/F♯d

FBut her love weigheEd so heavy on my miAmnd

FFor she was the liEve-in lover of a druAmmmer I called my frienD5d

FShe weren't nothing but a gEypsy in disguiDse

Chorus

FGypsy woEman how'd you doAm that to me D/F♯

FGypsy wEoman stole my Amheart and then you Am/Gset me Am/Ffree Am/E

FGypsy woEman how'd you leAmarn to like D/F♯that

FGypsy woEman come on baAmck

Verse

FSpending my wEages on Amrose and wine D/F♯

FWe'd ride the dEays and we'd dance the Amnights

FThe things we could Edo in my Amold VD/F♯W

FThe city lights never seeEmed so bright froAmm the reservoir

FAnd my friends they wEould warn me saying sAmhe's one fickle queeD/F♯n

FBetter get out while theE getting is good my Amfriend

FAnd besides her old drummer man is Elooking

 And he's so Ambig and bad and D/F♯mean

FBut what I didn't knoEw tFhen is what I know too weEll

FShe played me likeE a violinD

(Chorus)

FSo you tell me that you're lGeaving me now Am

FAfter all the times that weG have been througAmh

FAs your clown how am I Ggonna ever go home Am

 Somebody telFl me what am I Ggonna do D

Verse

FAnd so it goes I lost my Epride

 And I lost myAm job D/F♯

 This gypFsy woman took nearly eEvery thing I called my Amown

AmIt was a big surprise

FSo next time she comes daEncing prancAming throughD the town

FGonna recognize tEhe gypsy

FI'm gonna recognize Ethe gypsy

FGonna recognize the gEypsy in disguiAmse

To give it an ending that is more like one of Martin Sexton’s live versions of this

song, play something like this. Give it a little Gypsy style.

I would take it into something like this and progressively go faster each time I go through it.

End with this: