The Presidents of the United States of America Truckstop Butterfly chords

Truckstop Butterfly by The Presidents Of The United States Of America

How do you make it sound like the recording?:
    Tune all strings a half-step down if you want to match the recording. 
    (The hardest part of this song is setting up the tuning.   Otherwise
    it's three pretty standard chords.)  Pretty fun song!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRUh8OQ4fp8

What chords should I play?:
    Sounds great with straight chords or power chords.  Chris seems to
    play Em-shape-power chords all the way up the neck of the guitar 
    on frets 8 & 3 (for showmanship? Maybe some guitar gurus can help 
    me out here), but you can just play Em-shape-power on fret 3 and 
    A-shape-power on fret 3.  (I'm tabbing out the latter.)

Cool transition tip:
    In either case, you can then slide down from Em-shape-power-3 to 
    Em-shape-power-2 to Em-shape-power-1 to Em for a cool transition.  

Tabbed-Out Chords:
         Em          G                   C
             (Em-shape-power-3)  (A-shape-power-3)
    Eb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
    Bb|--0-----------x-------------------x----------|
    Gb|--0-----------0-------------------5----------|
    Db|--2-----------5-------------------5----------|
    Ab|--2-----------5-------------------3----------|
    Eb|--0-----------3-------------------x----------|
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Song:
                    Em
    Truckstop butterfly
                   G
    Covered in gasoline
                    Em
    Truckstop butterfly
                         G
    Kiss you till you're clean

C        G          C             G
Me and a man with a mohawk on his head
C             G              Em             Em
Found a dirty butterfly half dead
C          G         C                  G
Rainbow of shiny oil slick and stuck on wing
C             G            Em            Em
Helpless in a puddle muddy thing

C          G            C          G
   Seven-eleven, cherry soda and a pie
C            G                 
30-ton steel grey cloud and the 
C               G
sky is dark and dripping though we
C               G          
stop and wonder why
       C                G            Em         Em
You're running late but what a great alibi

                    Em
    Truckstop butterfly
                   G
    Covered in gasoline
                    Em
    Truckstop butterfly
                         G
    Kiss you till you're clean
    (get gone!)

[Instrumental / Harmonica solo]
  C  G  C  G
  C  G  Em
  C  G  C  G
  C  G  Em

C               G                 C             G  
Far out east in deserts there's a vein of inky gold
C                 G              Em 
Here out west you wear it like a coat
C            G          C                G
  Me and the man with a mohawk watch you go
C              G                 Em       Em      Em      Em
Follow sun and leave the melting snow

C          G
Man, how I miss you
C               G
Truckstop butterfly
C              G
Fly so I can't see you
C               G
Truckstop butterfly

C          G
I hope you made it,
C              G
and you didn't die
C           G
Still, I do miss you
C               G
Truckstop butterfly

C               G
Truckstop butterfly
C               G
Truckstop butterfly

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Tip: Every once in a while, songs will be a half-step down, which helps with singing sometimes.
If your guitar has good intonation (ie doesn't sound out of tune with a capo on, basically), 
you can put a capo on 1 to put your guitar back into standard tuning for some songs, then take 
the capo off for these half-step songs to switch quickly during a set.  Don't store your guitar 
with the capo on the strings though.  The downside is that the fret markings might throw you 
off for a bit while you get used to it.
peace