Dierks Bentley, That Don't Make It Easy Lovin' Me Tabs/Chords

THAT DON'T MAKE IT EASY LOVIN' ME
Written by Dierks Bentley, Brett Beavers, Deric Ruttan

Tune down one semitone - song is pitched in Eb

2 beats per chord
` = 2 beats
. = hold Beat-1

PROLOGUE:
Acoustic (detail charted separately)
E  E6sus4  E7(no3rd)  E6sus4

E  E6sus4  N.C.  `

Electric (* = RIFF detailed in TAB below)
E7*  `  E7*  `

E7*  `  E7*  `

INTRO:
E7  `  E7  `

E7  `  E7  `
             We were

VERSE:
E7.            `               `                `
Playin' out in Vegas when this lady pressed her way up to the
E7*  `  E7*  `
Stage          I for-
E7.            `                `               `
got what I was singin' when she met me with her meet-me-later
E7*  `  E7*  `
Gaze           when she
A7             `           A7                `
Threw it on my mic stand I figured they were prob'ly double-
E   D  A7  `
Dees         that might

REFRAIN-LONG:
E               D             A7.                `
Make for a good story man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7*  `  E7*  `
Me             one time I

VERSE:
E7            `             E7                `
Met one of my heroes and he made me feel real good that I was
E7   `  E7  `
There        'cos what-
E7          `              E7              `
ever he was smokin' man it had me spinnin' circles in my
E7   `  E7  `
Chair         I fell a-
A7                  `         A7           `
sleep on his bus in Texas but I woke up in Memphis Tennes-
E  D  A7  `
see         that might

REFRAIN:
E               D             A7                 `
Make for a good story man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7  `
Me    but I got a

BRIDGE:
E    D  A7        `
Woman_____ let me tell you that she's
E        D  A7           `
Somethin'_____ you won't catch me doin'
E      D  A7        `
Nothin'__   to ever make her wanna
B7   `
Leave__ she

REFRAIN-2-SHORT:
D                `                A7                 ` 
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7  `
Me

SOLO:
A7  `  A7  `  E7  `  E7  `

A7  `  A7  `  B7  `  B7  `

LINK:
E  E6sus4  E7(no3rd)  E6sus4
                        When you're

VERSE:
E7          `                   E7.                `
Livin' on a bus and you fill it up with a bunch of real good timin'
E7*  `  E7*  `
Boys           mix in ap-
E7              `             E7.                  `
plause and alco-hol and honky tonks you know we're bound to make some
E7   `  E7  `
Noise         but this
A7                `             A7                `
Rake-and-ramblin' life helps me write the kind of songs I wanna
E   D  A7  `
Sing        'cos it

REFRAIN:
E                   D               A7                 `
Makes for real good stories man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7  `
Me    but I got a

BRIDGE:
E    D  A7        `
Woman_____ let me tell you man she's
E        D  A7           `
Somethin'_____ you won't catch me doin'
E      D  A7        `
Nothin'__   to ever make her wanna
B7   `
Leave__ she

REFRAIN-2:
D                `                A7                 `
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7  `  E7  `
Me           yeah she

REFRAIN-2:
D.               `                A7.                `
Knows how much I love her man but that don't make it easy lovin'
E7  `  E7  `
Me

LINK:
E7*  `  E7*  `

SOLO:  (fade on repeat)
A7  `  A7  `  E7  `  E7  `

A7  `  A7  `  B7  `  B7  `

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CHORDS:
    E7  A7  E   D   B7    E  E6sus4  E7(no3rd)
E|--0---0---0---2---2--|--0----0-------0----|
B|--3---2---0---3---0--|--0----0-------0----|
G|--1---0---1---2---2--|--1----2-------4----|
D|--0---2---2---0---1--|--x----x-------x----|  x = muted
A|--2---0---2-------2--|--2----4-------5----|
E|--0-------0----------|--0----0-------0----|

ELECTRIC-RIFF:
Maintain picking pattern throughout
  1 e + a 2 e + a  <- sixteenths count
  d u d u d u d u  <- down/up pick

   E7                                d u     d   d u   u d   d
   1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a   1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
D|-2-----------x-x-2-----------x-x-|-2-----------x-----2-------------|
A|---4-----5\4-x-x---4-----5\4-x-x-|---4-----5\4-x-------------------|
E|-------------x-x-------------x-x-|-------------x-3-b---3-b-0-------|
                                     i m     r     m   i m

\ = slide (legato)         i = index
x = muted note             m = middle
b = half-step bend         r = ring

LICK leading into REFRAIN:
   E               D                 A7
   1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a   1 e + a 2 e + a 3 e + a 4 e + a
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
B|-------5---------------3---------|-------2-------------------------|
G|---------------------------------|-------------0-------------------|
D|-2/6---------6-\-4-----------4\2-|-4/5-----------------------------|
A|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
E|---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
   m     i     m         i     m     r     i