• 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 (xx0232@1)         F#m (244222@1)   Bm (x24432@1)      G (320003@1)           DRumors (xx0232@1)are flying    all over Galilee these days
              F#m (244222@1)         Bm (x24432@1)GAnd (320003@1)Mary, I'm trying  to be cool
D (xx0232@1)                  F#m (244222@1)   Bm (x24432@1)          G (320003@1)        
When my friends walk by and,  they cannot look at me 
       D (xx0232@1)             A (x02220@1)   GIn (320003@1)the eye   Baby, I'm trying
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)          G (320003@1)          DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in too many things
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)           G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in too many things

Em G(x3)

D (xx0232@1)          F#m (244222@1) Bm (x24432@1)              G (320003@1)            DI (xx0232@1)know this child   was sent here to heal our broken time
                   F#m (244222@1)            Bm (x24432@1)GAnd (320003@1)some things are bigger, than we know
D (xx0232@1)              F#m (244222@1)   Bm (x24432@1)             GWhen (320003@1)somehow you find out that you lost a father 
     D (xx0232@1)                     A (x02220@1) GTo (320003@1)a god  well, Mary, that's life

D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)           G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in so many things
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)           G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in so many things

Em (022000@1)              F#m (244222@1)              G (320003@1)  Oh Mary, is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
           D (xx0232@1)              EmMary, (022000@1)is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
               F#m (244222@1)              GOh (320003@1)Mary, is he mine? (Mary, is he mine?)
               DTell (xx0232@1)me, is he?

D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)          G (320003@1)          DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in too many things
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)           G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in too many things

Em (022000@1)               F#m (244222@1)              G (320003@1)  Now Mary, he is mine. (Mary, he is mine.)
            D (xx0232@1)               EmMary, (022000@1)he is mine. (Mary, is he mine?)
               F#m (244222@1)              G (320003@1)   DOh (xx0232@1)Mary, he is mine. (Mary, he is mine.)

D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)          G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in so many things
D (xx0232@1)           A (x02220@1)          G (320003@1)         DYou're (xx0232@1)asking me to believe in so many things

Em G (x3) D

-END-

Merry Christmas everyone :)
-John Baer

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