https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/ Guitar Noise Discussion Board en-US Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:41:22 +0000 wpForo 60 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75201 Mon, 08 Nov 2004 00:19:22 +0000
The student who's learning it has only been playing three weeks, so I have him strumming just at the changes right now, although we've started to work with a strum every downbeat. The tempo is pretty quick... but other than the Bm, it's great for him, and he loves the tune.]]> Easy Songs NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75201 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75129 Sun, 07 Nov 2004 02:08:21 +0000 And is that 4/4 timing?

Thanks for the song- Bull]]> Easy Songs Bull https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75129 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75066 Sat, 06 Nov 2004 07:00:12 +0000 Easy Songs Morpheus https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-75066 https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-4737 Fri, 05 Nov 2004 04:42:35 +0000
Where did these folks ever learn to use their ears? At any rate, it took me all of 9 minutes to learn... and having gone this far, I figured I'd share. Good tune for beginners, all open chords except the Bm in the bridge.

Intro -------------------------------------------------------------- -----3-3-----5-------3-3-----0---0-1p0---3----0-1p0---3---1p0- ---0-------0-------0-------0-----------0------------0--------- -5-------5-------5-------5------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------- And the tune... the guitar continues the intro pattern until the line beginning 'on a summer night', at which point it's joined by chord strumming: G I was twenty and she was eighteen Am We were just about as wild as we were green G Am In the ways of the world G She picked me up in that red ragtop Am We were free of the folks, hiding from the cops G Am On a summer night, runnin' all the red lights G And we parked way out at a clearing in a grove Am And the night was as hot as a coal burning stove G Am We were cookin' with gas, oh it had to last C G Am In the back of that red ragtop C G Am She said please don't stop G Well the very first time her mother met me Am Her green eyed girl had been a mother to be G Am For two weeks G I was out of a job and she was in school Am But life was fast and the world was cruel G Am We were young and wild, we decided not to have a child G So we did what we did and we tried to forget Am And we swore up and down there would be no regrets G Am In the morning light, but on the way home that night C G Am On the back of that red ragtop C G Am She said please don't stop G Am Lovin' me C G Am G We took one more trip around the sun C G Am But it was all make believe in the end C G Am Em No I can't say where she is today Am7 Bm C Am I can't remember who I was back then (repeat intro) G Well you do what you do and you pay for your sins Am And there's no such thing as what might have been G Am That's a waste of time, drive you outta your mind G I was stopped at a red light just yesterday Am G Beside a young girl in a Cabriolet and her eyes were green Am And I was in an old scene C G Am I was back in that red ragtop C G Am On the day she stopped G Am Lovin' me C G Am I was back in that red ragtop C G Am On the day she stopped G Am Lovin' me ]]> Easy Songs NoteBoat https://guitarnoise.forum/easy-songs/tim-mcgraw-red-ragtop/#post-4737