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                       The Weakerthans - Maryland Bridge
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Tabbed by: CBAOTH
E-mail: cbaoth@gmx.net

Tuning: Standard

I just took the basic chords from the existing contributions and made some quick corrections
/ additions and added the full lyrics. I just listened to it a few times so it may still not be
100% perfect / open for some additional interpretation, but the basic structure should be correct.


[Intro]
Bm - G - E - A
Bm - G - E - A

[Verse]
   Bm             G
  I woke you up at four this morning
E                  A
  To whimper and to whine
Bm                      G
  To hear myself through spit and crackle of
E                     A
  A poor long distance line

Bm                     G
  Twelve clever ways to say I love you
E                       A
  With words that always fail
Bm                   G
  Hang up and light a cigarette, sit
E                A
  Waiting for the mail

Bm                  G
  Some flyers from department stores, a-
E                 A
  Another get rich plan
Bm                   G
  A bill or two, some shampoo and a
E               A
  Note from Ed McMann

Bm                      G
  Although you'll always be the one in
E                A
  Which I will confide
Bm                    G
  Sometimes you're the razor on my
E              A
  Private water slide


[Chorus]
D       A               Bm           G
  By the way, I got your letter yesterday
                 D  A          Bm
  It said there's no need to be sad
D             A                 Bm         G
  It said that some things would never ever change
          E    Bm        A
  But that some already had
D        A                 Bm           G
  And I'd heard it from the corner of my ear how that
D      A            Bm
  Voice makes things right
D        A                      Bm            G
  And I'm sure there's something more than memory
            E        A         D
  Across the Maryland bridge tonight

[Bridge]
Bm - G - E - A
Bm - G - E - A


[Verse]
Bm                 G
  How ominous these undercurrents
E                     A
  They crowd me now it seems
Bm                G
  And every time I meet you in the
E              A
  Darkness of my dreams

Bm                     G
  It's likely that I'll turn around and
E         A
  Parody myself
Bm                G
  Imagine we're in different places
E                      A
  Pretend we're someone else

Bm           G
  I can be J. Edgar Hoover
E         A
  You be JFK
Bm               G
  As power hungry egocentrics
E                      A
  We'll paper fight the nights away

Bm                   G
  Sometimes you're my nemesis
E              A
  When I am paranoid
Bm                G
  Sometimes I have doubts and worries
E              A
  Too strong to avoid


[Chorus]
D       A               Bm           G
  By the way, I got your letter yesterday
                 D  A          Bm
  It said there's no need to be sad
D             A                 Bm         G
  It said that some things would never ever change
          E    Bm        A
  But that some already had
D        A                 Bm           G
  And I'd heard it from the corner of my ear how that
D      A            Bm
  Voice makes things right
D        A                      Bm            G
  And I'm sure there's something more than memory
            E        A               D
  Across the Maryland bridge tonight
      G     E       A         D
Mhhh, Mhhh, Maryland bridge tonight
      G     E       A         D
Ohhh, Ohhh, Maryland bridge tonight