Chords for "I Gotta Move"

Date: March 23, 1997  11:03 PM
From: Christopher Carl Heckman


                                  I Gotta Move
           Written by Ray Davies, tabbed by Christopher Carl Heckman

Following is the riff in G (most of the G major scale) which gives 
structure to this song. For the third verse, play the riff in C, 
one string higher.

E-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------
D---------------0--2--0---------------
A------0--2--3-----------3--2P0-------
E---3----------------------------3----


riff                                                           
I don't wanna get left behind, gonna love my baby all the time,
If I don't wanna get left alone, I gotta move on down by baby's home,
And if my baby isn't there, I'm gonna fill my gap and comb my hair,

      G           G           riff             
Gotta move, gotta move, gotta move, gotta move.


riff                                                          
All my life I've had to move, always failed to stay in school,
If I moved down ______ road, sometimes I wished I'd stayed at home,
Where I'm going no one knows, only know I gotta go,

          G           G           riff             
You gotta move, gotta move, gotta move, gotta move.


riff up 1 string                                               
I don't wanna get left behind, gonna love my baby all the time,
If I don't wanna get left alone, I gotta move on down by baby's home,
And if baby isn't there, I'm gonna brush my boots and comb my hair,

        C           G             riff             
I gotta move, gotta move, I gotta move, gotta move.


Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 13:46:15 -0300
From: Pablo Alonso


"I gotta move"

The former transcription of this song is wrong.

The correct riff is played on the G minor pentatonic and is modulated

to A minor pentatonic. It's something like this:

E-------------------------------------
B-------------------------------------
G-------------------------------------
D------------------3------------------
A------------3--5-----5--3p1----------
E---3--3--6-------------------3-------

Riff (x 2)

                             riff                        
riff                                
I don't wanna get left behind, gonna love my baby all the time,
If I don't wanna get left alone, I gotta move on down by baby's home,
And if my baby isn't there, I'm gonna fill my gap and comb my hair
      C7           D7         riff        riff     
Gotta move, gotta move, gotta move, gotta move.

Riff (x4)
                            
All my life I've had to move, always failed to stay in school,   
If I moved down the dirty old road, sometimes I wished I'd stayed at
home,
Where I'm going no one knows, only know I gotta go,

          C7          D7          riff        riff    
You gotta move, gotta move, gotta move, gotta move.

Riff (x4) on the third time riff modules to A minor pentatonic (two
frets up)                               

I don't wanna get left behind, gonna love my baby all the time,
If I don't wanna get left alone, I gotta move on down by baby's home,
And if baby isn't there, I'm gonna brush my boots and comb my hair,

        D7          E7             A7 till the end         
I gotta move, gotta move, I gotta move, gotta move.


Transcribed by Pablo Alonso