Tuning: Standard

Intro:

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E | ---------------------------------------------------------2-3~- | 

Let ~ ring

Verses:
(Em may not be played every time/at all; Up to you)

B5                         G5
Barren rocks and sand, our wooden sculpture hands,
            B5            D5     ( E5 )          G5 
held like a timber hitch, held candles to the sun
B5                         G5
Both faint and fading fast, we walked on, windward
                 B5           D5      ( E5 )        G5
kept time with a pocketmouse, mouths kept mostly shut
B5                               G5
Thought broke the silence like a bone
                                        B5
half-moaned: "you've worn me like an albatross,
D5    ( E5 )            G5
I've only slowed you down.


B5                                         G5                   
You could've long traded in your braided crown 
                               B5              D5   ( E5 )                 G5
by now you could've found that Anabaptist girl you always used to go on about
B5                           G5
As we rode in circles on our bicycles;
             B5           D5  ( E5 )           G5
we walked on balance beams as the audience cheered for us
B5                           G5
We burned like fevers under carriage hats
           B5
hid behind Venetian masks
D5  ( E5 )          G5
In our human costumes

B5                             G5
We stood like statues once in shepherd's check
                        B5
we'll both be decked in herringbone,
D5       ( E5 )        G5
wrapped border drab around already broken ironstone"
B5                    
"But I've seen these cliffs before,
G5                                           B5
St. Agnes brought her palm branch to the hospital
D5      ( E5 )             G5
looked upward lest the charm had fled

from my brother's breathing bed



[PLAY SOFTLY]
B5                          G5
And when he died I shut his dogtooth violet eyes:
                    B5
He looked just like me
 D5    ( E5 )         G5
climb on down and see
B5                         G5
they laid him on the rocks below
                                B5
there'll be enough to fill your cup for days
D5     ( E5 )              G5
I'll stay up here and rest.


[LOUD AGAIN]
B5                                      G5
We'll fly in straight lines as from carronades
                  B5         D5      ( E5 )      G5
we'll crash like tidal waves, decimate the islands
B5                                 G5
As our hollowed lumber falls like water, ends where I start
                B5         D5   ( E5 )        G5
In that tattered rag shop back in Asbury Park


[OUTRO]:
B5 , F#5
E5 , B5

Look how soon my hands won't move
but if you'll improve, we'll all improve
Sixty feet and my feet won't move
but if you'll improve, we'll all improve
Forty feet, my legs won't move
but as you improve, we all improve
Fill our den with acorn mast,
I'll wake before the salmon pass
Ten foot more and nothing moves"

B5 , F#5
E5 , B5

-End on Bm-


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