Turn the Page
by Metallica (original by Bob Seger)

Transcribed by John Gaughan (john@johngaughan.net)

Key:  G# minor
Time: 4/4

Guitars and bass are tuned one half-step flat and played as if in the
key of A minor. All chords are written as played, but sound one half-step
flat when played.


Verse 1:
     E5
On a long and lonesome highway, east of Omaha,
        D5
You can listen to the engine moanin' out its one-note song,
        A5                                                        E5
You can think about the woman, or the girl you knew the night before.

         E5
But your thoughts will soon be wanderin', the way they always do,
            D5
When you're ridin' sixteen hours there's nothing much to do,
        A5                                                             E5
And you don't feel much like ridin', you just wish the trip was through.


Chorus:
       D5         E5
Here I am, on the road again,
        D5      E5
There I am, up on the stage,
       D5          A5
Here I go, playin' star again,
        C5 D5          E5
There I go,   turn the page.


Verse 2:
       E5
So you walk in-to this restaurant, a-strung out from the road,
        D5
And you feel the eyes up-on you, as you shakin' off cold,
       A5                                                      E5
You pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode.

          E5
Yeah most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can,
        D5
All the same old cliches, is it woman, is it man?
        A5                                                E5
And you always seem outnumbered, you don't dare make a stand. Make your stand! Ah!


Chorus:
       D5         E5
Here I am, on the road again,
        D5      E5
There I am, up on the stage,
       D5          A5
Here I go, playin' star again,
        C5 D5          E5
There I go,   turn the page.


Verse 3:
        E5
Oh, oh! Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away,
      D5
Every ounce of energy, you try and give away,
       A5                                                    E5
As the sweat pours out your body, like the music that you play.

E5
Later in the evenin', as you lie awake in bed,
         D5
With the echos of the amplifiers ringin' in your head,
    A5                                                       E5
You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said... (what she said)


Chorus (instrumental)
D5    E5
D5    E5
D5    E5
C5 D5 E5


Chorus (instrumental)
D5    E5
D5    E5
D5    E5
C5 D5 E5


Chorus:
       D5         E5
Here I am, on the road again,
        D5      E5
There I am, up on the stage,
       D5          A5
Here I go, playin' star again,
        C5 D5          E5
There I go,   turn the page.


Chorus:
        C5 D5           E5
There I go,   turn that page.
        C5
There I go,
   D5
yeah, there I
 E5
go! Yeah!


Chorus:
        D5          E5
(vocal tacit)
        D5          E5
There I go, yeah!
       D5           E5
Here I go, yeah!
        C5   D5             E5
There I go...o, there I go..o!

...Long gone...