Sherrif Ochs
Chords


G*:   G**:   F#*:
_     _      -
E|0   E|0    E|0
B|8   B|10   B|0
G|0   G|0    G|3
D|9   D|9    D|4
A|10  A|10   A|4
E|x   E|x    E|2

Note: Make sure when playing the Dm7 that you bar it at the 5th fret.


Intro:
Bm        A
Bm Bm/C#  A    Aadd9
Bm        F#m  F#
Bm        F#m  F#

Bm                  Dm7         G*    G**           Bm
I just finished a book with its cover torn and its pages worn.
    G*    G**           Bm                           A     A/Bb
The story starts on the day you were born in the city.
Bm                    Dm7
   Where movie houses stood
G*        G**        Bm
Raised on Elvis and Hollywood.
    G*       G**         Bm
The bad guys bad and the good guys good
       A                               A/Bb
And the weight of the worlds is always on the sheriff's shoulders,

D                        F#
   There was life in the little house
Bm                G
Above the hospital for the dying,
G       
So I will keep singing,
F#                            A                       A/Bb
 I will keep fishing for some words in the water all around me

Bm  Bm  Bm   Bm/A Bm/A Bm/A

(same chords as first verse)
The house of home shook and as the shelter broke you got a
good long look
At a country and class run by buzzards and crooks
Mississippi! Mississippi!
Through CIA and Klan
Through McCarth's damn blacklist, Nixon, and Nam
They tear-gassed the students but you had a plan
And the weight of the world is on the sheriff's
shoulders

(Same as first chorus)
There was life in the little house,
Above the hospital for the dying.
So I will keep singing,
I will keep fishing for some words in this water all around me

Bm  Bm  A Asus4 A Aadd9  F#m  F#m  
F#  F#*  F#  F#*  F#  F#*

D                     F#
There was life in the city that night.
Bm                          G
You found your voice and you voiced your sight.
F#                             G     A
You held your ground to help us see
D                        F#
There's more to life than lovers and chores
Bm                          G
There's more to life that an office at the top floor,
F#                             G      A
Somehow, someway, we all find peace,
   A/Bb  
We all find


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