Tabbed by: Dave
NOTE: For all of the F chords, he only plays the full chord (133211) when he says "In
eyes" for the second time. I've
marked it with a *. All the other F chords are played like this: x03211.
INTRO:
*It's basically just chords, but I included all the picked notes too*
Am C F
e | ------0---------------1-----0-------0---- |
B | -----1---------1------1---------1-------- |
G | ----2----------0---0--2-------2---------- |
D | ---2------2-0--2---0--3---3-------3------ |
A | --0-------0----3---3--------------------- |
E | ----------------------------------------- |
C G Dm D4
e | --------0--------------1-----3-----3---3------- |
B | --------1-----0---0-0--3-----3-----3---3------- |
G | -----0----0---0---0-0--2---2-2-------2---2----- |
D | --0--2----2-0-0---0-0--0---0-0-------0---0----- |
A | --3--3----3-2-2-------------------------------- |
E | --------------3-------------------------------- |
FIRST VERSE:
Am C F C G Dm D4 Dm
A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls.
Am C F C G
Dm D4
A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall.
FIRST CHORUS:
Dm
He says
C G Dm F
?there?s plenty of time to make you mine tonight,
C G Dm
there?s plenty of time to make you mine.?
He says
C G Dm
?there?s plenty of ways to know you?re not dying,
F
all right.
C G Dm
Hell, there?s plenty of light still left in your eyes.?
F *
In your eyes.
FIRST PRE-VERSE:
Am C F C G Dm
SECOND VERSE:
Am C F C
A black sheep boy grows horns,
G Dm
breathing smoke through his microphone.
Am C F C
Dm
The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason.
SECOND CHORUS:
He says
C G Dm F
?there?s plenty of things to wear when you come to me,
C G Dm
every color of sleeve to be rolled.
C G Dm F
There are millions of rolling eyes that still cling to me.
C G Dm
Every language of king is concerned.
BRIDGE:
Am
So why
Dm
did you bawl
G D A
from the spell of some old holy song
G D A
that some liar laughed as he composed,
G D A
some liar I loved to control??
SECOND PRE-VERSE:
*I included both the chords and the faint guitar in the background*
Am C F C G
D4
e | -------------1--1---1---- | --0-----------1---1---1-3----3-3-- |
B | -------------1--1---1---- | ----3-1-0-----3---3---3-3----3-3-- |
G | -------------2----2---2-- | ----------2-0-2-----2---2----2-2-- |
D | ---------0-2-3----3---3-- | --------------0-----0--------0-0-- |
A | --0--2-3----------------- | ---------------------------------- |
E | ------------------------- | ---------------------------------- |
Am C F C G
D4
e | -------------1--1---1---- | --0---------------1---1-3-- |
B | -------------1--1---1---- | ----3-1-0---------3---3-3-- |
G | -------------2----2---2-- | ----------2-0-2-----2---2-- |
D | ---------0-2-3----3---3-- | --------------------0---0-- |
A | --0--2-3----------------- | --------------------------- |
E | ------------------------- | --------------------------- |
THIRD VERSE:
*For the first 4 lines there's no guitar, but the bass copies the notes the guitar would
playing*
Am C F Am
A black sheep boy dissolves
C F Am
in hot cream , in sweet moans,
C F Am
in each dead bed and empty home,
C F Am
in each seething bacterium.
C F
Killing softly and serial,
C G Dm
he lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial.
C G Dm
He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria.
C G Dm
He?s the thrill of the abecedarian.
C G Dm
(See the muddy hoofprints where he carried yo
THIRD CHORUS:
C G Dm F
And there?s plenty of ways to claim his crimes tonight,
C G Dm
and there?s plenty of things to do on his dime.
C G Dm F
And there?s plenty of ways to wear his hide tonight.
C G Dm
You?ve got yours and I?ve got mine.
C G Dm
You?ve got yours and I?ve got mine.
OUTRO:
Dm
So why
Am
did you flee?
G D A
Don?t you know you can?t leave his control
G D A
only call all his wild works your own?
G D A
So come back and we?ll take them all on.
G D A
So come back to your life on the lam.
G D A
So come back to your old black sheep man.
He says
G D A
?I am waiting on hoof and on hand.
G D A
I am waiting, all hated and damned.
G D A
I am waiting, I snort and I stamp.
G D A D
I am waiting, you know that I am ,
G D A
calmly waiting to make you my lamb?
