Tabbed by John Eccleston
Standard Tuning


C#5 A5 C#5 B5

C#5                                   A5
Half-mast land grants homesteading laws
                                     C#5
Past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls
                                       B5
Practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls
C#5                                        A5
I laid down my guns where the soldierfish swam
                                                 C#5
And slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man
                                B5
I saw Charlotte Corday with the knife in her hand. It was nothing new
C#5                                       A5
I've perched on Steele Dakota's sandhill crane
                                           C#5
I flew among the Paiute before the Mormon rain
                                                         B5
I was in Virginia City for the stringing up of Clubfoot Lane

But I've never seen anything like you

E5      A5           B5
All untied, by and by!
B5
But I'd pour the matrimony wine
E5      A5           B5
All untied, by and by!
B5                             E5
So if you're ever so inclined
E5
Oh you're ever so inclined
E5
Oh you're ever so inclined

C#5                                 A5
While low in a lodgepole branch nearby
                                   C#5
A lovesick Barnyard, an amorous eye
                                               B5
What unprecedented gift does this afternoon provide?
C#5                                         A5
What from the air now calls to water on the land?
                                             C#5
What from my seclusion does this charlatan demand?
                                          B5
What to do now with my best-laid eremetic plans?
C#5                                           A5
I've been to the Arfaks where the Sicklebills fly
                                       C#5
Seen Tangier's acrobatics nine stories high
                                                       B5
I was there at Appomattox back in '65 when the General arrived, but I've never been in 
this room before!

E5      A5           B5
All untied, by and by!
B5
That same old dream's trapped in my mind
E5      A5           B5
All untied, by and by!
B5
I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line
E5      A5           B5
All untied, by and by!
B5                                        E5
Well I wake up disappointed every time
       B5                          E5
Well I wake up disappointed every time
       B5                          E5
Well I wake up disappointed every time
               B5                      E5
Well I wake up disappointed every time!
      B5                            B5
And I wake up disappointed every time!


B5                                  F5
If the weather ever withers up your vine
                             B5
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb
                                          F5
If that old thorn is still buried in your side
                              B5
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb

                                    F5
Well if your pacific rivers all run dry
                                         B5
Their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky
                                          F5
And if the pleasures of your heavens ever end
                                  B5
That very ladder just as well descends

B5 F5 repeat.