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               GRAND DARK FEELING OF EMPTINESS - Bonnie Prince Billy
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Tabbed by: bengtaaron

Tuning: Standard


Am

Am                      C
Well I felt like I was born today
Am                      C
So I took it upon me to go away
Am                      C
To gather my thoughts and go away
         Bb                      Am
To where I could be used by somebody

Over the hill like always you know
Were Billy and Frankie and Henry and Joe
And they beat and broke me hard and slow
To prove I was nobody

Am                    G
And no one I was and so remained
Am                      G
Knocked out in a hut, no mother, no name
Am                          G
And filled up my heart with one and the same
Am               G          Am
That grand dark feeling of emptiness

And was it a friend that turned me loose?
Or was it a girl come to baste my goose?
Or was it my great God who laid on his finger
And started my clock anew?

Ah no, it was rain, ah no, it was gunning
It was point break and buckle and singing and cunning
That skinned me, re-skinned me and started me running
And I never looked back from then on

Am
And now I'm learning bit by bit
G
'Bout the make and model shit
F
Muddy bowl, I live in it
Em                      Am
And all the mucks that tire us
Am
And I'm afeared if I don't have
G
A piglet, lamb, or little calf
F
I'll chop my humanness in half
Em                  Am
And be as worm or virus

But kids I've had, and they are sung
Upon folks' ears my babes are hung
And rhythmically they live among
And grow but don't get old
Not in a box, not in a void
Not if their voice is never heard
Nor if no-one repeats a word
But if their tune is told, then...

C                G
We can age and fall away
C                    G
And meet again some golden day
Am                   F
And fill it in our happy way
Am          G       Am
In starlight and in gold