Til I Can Gain Control Again {As Performed By Blue Rodeo} Written by Rodney Crowell. Published by Jolly Cheeks Music (BMI) from the CD "Five Days In July" - 1993 Blue Rodeo Productions/WEA Lyrics taken from an old OLGA transcription with credit due to: [email protected] (Drake Hirasawa) and [email protected] (Richard Tarkka) What’s that? Your "E" chord doesn’t sound like a Blue Rodeo "E" chord? Check the notes at the bottom of the page to find out why. INTRO: | | | | || Just like the sun over the mountain tops You know I’ll always come again You know I love to spend my mornings Like sunlight dancing on your skin I’ve never gone so wrong as for telling lies to you What you see is what I am There is nothing I could hide from you You see me better than I can Out on the road that lies before me now There are some turns where I will spin I only hope that you can hold me now Til I can gain control again And like a lighthouse you must stand alone Landmark a safe journey’s end No matter what sea I’ve been sailing on I’ll always come back home again. OUTRO: I only hope that you can hold me now Til I can gain control again | | | | | | | | Blue Rodeo make liberal use of suspended chords. It adds flavour to the song especially if you are playing it solo on an acoustic guitar. In this song the chord pops up everywhere (aside from where it’s noted in the intro). Here’s one way to play a bar of E while incorporating this embellishment. I use this all through the song particularly in the first bar of two consecutive bars of E. I tend to play a straight E chord in a bar leading up to a chord and sometimes in the bars leading up to chords. Throw it in wherever it feels comfortable for you. ie. At the asterisk hammer your pinky finger on to the third string/second fret to create an chord.