I Wish I Was in New Orleans - Tom Waits fingerstyle guitar solo - link to TAB in description

Описание: Here’s my fingerstyle take on Tom Waits’ beautifully melancholic "I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)"

Notation and TAB for this is here https://www.musicnotes.com/l/5tgr4

More sheet music / tabs of mine at https://www.musicnotes.com/l/Tony-Rowden

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Tuning: Standard
Guitar: Esteve Electro Classical Guitar Model 3ECE Fishman Classic 4


"I Wish I Was in New Orleans" is a wistful ballad from Tom Waits' 1976 album Small Change. In this song, Waits paints a vivid picture of longing and nostalgia, dreaming of returning to New Orleans—a city that symbolizes warmth, escape, and romanticized sorrow. Through imagery of second lines, slow dances, and familiar bars, he evokes a deep yearning for a place that exists as much in memory as in reality.

The song is slow, mournful, and steeped in the blues, with Waits’ gravelly voice delivering a heartfelt lament. It’s less about the literal city and more about a state of mind: a desire to be somewhere far from the coldness and detachment of the present. As with much of Waits' work, the beauty lies in the mix of poetic melancholy, jazz-inflected style, and emotional vulnerability.

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