• Song:

    Joseph Who Understood

  • Artist:

    New Pornographers

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Artist: The New Pornographers
Album:  The Spirit of Giving (EP)(2007)
Song:   Joseph, Who Understood
Tabbed on: December 25th, 2011 (Merry Christmas!)
tabber: John Baer (eddiebauerman16@aol.com)

Intro: D (acoustic strum)

D           F#m     Bm        G             D
Rumors are flying    all over Galilee these days
              F#m           Bm  G
And Mary, I'm trying  to be cool
D                    F#m     Bm            G          
When my friends walk by and,  they cannot look at me 
       D               A     G
In the eye   Baby, I'm trying
D             A            G            D
You're asking me to believe in too many things
D             A             G           D
You're asking me to believe in too many things

Em G(x3)

D            F#m   Bm                G              D
I know this child   was sent here to heal our broken time
                   F#m              Bm  G
And some things are bigger, than we know
D                F#m     Bm               G
When somehow you find out that you lost a father 
     D                       A   G
To a god  well, Mary, that's life

D             A             G           D
You're asking me to believe in so many things
D             A             G           D
You're asking me to believe in so many things

Em                F#m                G
   Oh Mary, is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
           D                Em
Mary, is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
               F#m                G
Oh Mary, is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
               D
Tell me, is he?

D             A            G            D
You're asking me to believe in too many things
D             A             G           D
You're asking me to believe in too many things

Em                 F#m                G
   Now Mary, he is mine. (Mary, he is mine.)
            D                 Em
Mary, he is mine. (Mary, is he mine?)
               F#m                G     D
Oh Mary, he is mine. (Mary, he is mine.)

D             A            G           D
You're asking me to believe in so many things
D             A            G           D
You're asking me to believe in so many things

Em G (x3) D

-END-

Merry Christmas everyone :)
-John Baer
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