• Song:

    Ballad Of A Deadman

  • Artist:

    Powderfinger

Ballad of a Deadman
INTRO: Bm Em (Bend 9th fret on b string then land on 9th fret g string)

Bm Em
Run little rabbit, cant break the habit for none
Bm Em
Shapes like a rocket and shoots like a pocket gun
Bm Em Bm Em 
Every mothers son has spent a lifetime on the run

G A D
One by one and two by two
Bm 
Our hearts beat a rhythm true
G A D
Wave goodbye now baby blue
Bm G (strum once) 
You're exploding like a star into the gloom

A G
I thought I could shut you in
A
You said 'Baby let me out'
G Bm Em 
I thought that I could pick you up and roll you like a dice

There's hitchhikers thumbing on the verge of the lovers highway
But we just roll on by with the top down, the sun's out
I'm so glad when you came along you happened to be going my way
The wheels roll round and round

One by one and two by two
Our hearts beat a rhythm true
Wave goodbye now baby blue
You're exploding like a star in the room

A G
I thought I could shut you in
A
You said "baby pull me out"
G A
I thought that I could pick you up and roll you like a dice to get close to you,
G 
I could feel it coming in, here they come
A
They're coming one by one coming two by two
G 
They're coming one by one coming two by two

D F#m (on 9th fret) 

A G
Yeah, if I ever let you down
A G
If anything should come to bleed you dry or cut you out
D F#m
Don?t turn me away

Yeah I never meant to spin you round
If anybody comes to do you harm or pin you down
D F#m
I'll take your place
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