(transcribed from an acoustic performance on Acoustic Cafe on 2-12-96)
Standard tuning
Capo: 3
E: 022100
C: X32010
G: 320003
D: XX0232
A: X02220
C2: X35553 (or X32010 if that's too hard)
D2: X57775 (or XX0232)
Intro and fills between verses:
E E
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[-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--][-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--]
[-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--][-2--2--0--h2---2--2--0--h2--]
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C G E
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E C G E
Silver Bell, Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel
E C G E
You were traveling and there you fell, down on a bed at the Silver Bell
E C G E
E C G E
How you been, I'm doing well, I hear you're digging a hole to hell
E C G E
How you been, I'm doing well, meet me tonight at the Silver Bell
D A E
I hate to tell you, baby, this is home
D A E
The wallpaper is a color called seafoam
D A G D
Pull down the shades a little and you've got yourself a prison ce - ell
D G E
Tearing out the wicked well tonight baby at the Silver Bell
C G E
Yeah, that's the name of the old motel
C2 D2 E
I did a stupid thing, I even tried
C2 D2 E
Feels like a hundred bees are stinging me from the inside
C2 D2
Don't know just what to do I, don't know just who to tell
C2 D2 E
And so I'm telling you to meet me tonight down at the Silver Bell
E C G E
Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel
D A E
I hate to tell you, baby, this is home
D A E
The wallpaper is a color called seafoam
D A G D
Pull down the shades a little and you've got yourself a prison cell, ooooh, boy
D G E
Tearing out the wicked well tonight, baby, at the Silver Bell
E C G E
Silver Bell, yeah, that's the name of the old motel
E C G E
You were traveling and there you fell, down on a bed at the Silver Bell