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             Take The Star Out Of The Window - John Prine
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Tabbed by: Kent

Tuning: Standard

The one version I saw on the interwebs of this song I didn't think was exactly on 
point. So here's another try.

Whenever you see a chord, give it a coupla strums, like you mean it.

   C                       F                C             G
e|---0---0-----0-------------1------------------0-----------3-----------------|
B|---1---1-----1---1-3-1-----1---1-3-1----------1-----------0-----------------|
G|-0-0-0-0-----0---------0-2-2---------2-0------0-----0-----0-----------------|
D|---------2---2-------------3--------------0h2-2-0h2---2-0-0-----------------|
A|-----------3-3-------------3------------------3-----------2-----------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------3-----------------|
   C                       F                C     G       C
e|---0---0-----0-------------1------------------0-----------0-----------------|
B|---1---1-----1---1-3-1-----1---1-3-1----------1-----------1-----------------|
G|-0-0-0-0-----0---------0-2-2---------2-0------0-----0-----0-----------------|
D|---------2---2-------------3--------------0h2-2-----------2-----------------|
A|-----------3-3-------------3------------------3-0h2---2-3-3-----------------|
E|----------------------------------------------------------------------------|

C
Robert was a sailor
                          F   
for the best years of his life
    C
his captain was his mother
                      G
and the ocean was his wife
      C
only fresh out of the cradle
                    F
life's one and only spring
       C
he was sworn to do his duty
G                        C
blood on his high school ring

chorus:
and it's hello california
hello dad and ma
ship ohoy o baby boy
is home from vietnam
don't you ask me any questions
about the medals on my chest
take the star out of the window
and let my conscience take the rest

now he sailed across the ocean
to the old far eastern war
it was foreign to his body
it was foreign to his shore
so he traded in the present
for the better times he'd seen
made an oriental waitress
his own homecoming queen

chorus

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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| +   harmonic
| x   Mute note
| b   Bend
| pb  Pre-bend
| br  Bend release
| pbr Pre-bend release
| brb Bend release bend

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