Johnny Davis

This is the second song Ben has written based on the non-fiction book, Bikeriders by Danny Lyon. (Gee, can you guess what the first one was?) It's a fun song and it's easy to play. Heck, Brian's leads only have 5 notes, 6 if you count the bend from E to F as 2.

Brian's lead between verses (outro is at the bottom):

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A B

B______________________________A___E
Johnny Davis never let us down
E___________________________________A___E
Started up on the west side of town
B______________________________A___E
By the 60s the midwest was ours
E_______________________________________A__B
The bike's a body and John was the heart


B_____________________________________________A___E
Meetings and the races and the women looked good
E______________________________________________A___B
Raising hell and living like nobody else would
B_____________________________A___E
Johnny Davis never let us down
E__________________________________________A___B
Since he's gone the boys are different now

B________A____________________E
Hang on, hang on, we're going for a ride
B________A_______________E
Hang on, hang on, it's alright
B___________A_____________E
These streets are ours to take
F#
Faster than trouble
E
Too fast to fade


B____________________________________A___E
Johnny never backed down from a fight
E____________________________________A___E
By the end we lived in changing times
B______________________________________________A___E
The new guys thought that they were movie stars
E_________________________A__B
After `69 it fell apart

B_____________________________________________A___E
Edges of an empty parking lot it rained chrome
E____________________________________________________A___B
Johnny in the middle stood his ground and fought alone
B______________________________A___E
Johnny could took em one on one
E______________________________________A___B
But his young rival simply pulled a gun


B________A____________________E
Hang on, hang on, we're going for a ride
B________A_______________E
Hang on, hang on, it's alright
B___________A_____________E
These streets are ours to take
F#
Faster than trouble
E
Too fast to fade


A___________________________E
You live the life you love, you love the life you live
B
Maybe that's enough honey to get us out of this
A_____________________E
Build it up to speed, Give it all it needs
B
In the end it knocks you down and throws you in the weeds
A_______________________________E
If what you say is true, hell sometimes you gotta lose


B________A____________________E
Hang on, hang on, we're going for a ride
B________A_______________E
Hang on, hang on, it's alright
B___________A_____________E
These streets are ours to take
F#
Faster than trouble
E
Too fast to fade


Brian's outro solo:

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