Transcribed by Jason Leonard Intro: 0:00- 0:23 A5 D5 C5 G5 A5 D5 C5 G5 VERSE: 0:24- 1:09 A5 D5 C5 "Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..." G5 It's angry and slick A5 D5 C5 into those letters writes through herself each time G5 that she thinks of him A5 D5 C5 Trips her way down south, into mystery's mouth G5 and he follows her there A5 D5 C5 It's what she doesn't say that makes you want to stay G5 and try to comfort her Chorus: 1:10- 1:32 D5 * C5 * B5 * I talked to the cousins of people who knew you D5 * C5 * B5 * I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like D5 * C5 * B5 * maybe a killing went down in your town A5 maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire 1:33- 1:44 A5 D5 C5 G5 Verse: 1:45- 2:30 A5 D5 C5 "Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..." G5 It's shaped like liberty's bell A5 D5 C5 it's cracked and common law, stretched out over it's flaws G5 just like an ink-less well A5 D5 C5 The hanging judge in town records her comments down G5 she saves the crowd the truth A5 D5 C5 and deals with it herself, fills that hollow well, G5 with nothing left to prove Chorus: 2:31- 2:53 D5 * C5 * B5 * I talked to the mountains and streams that pushed through there D5 * C5 * B5 * I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear D5 * C5 * B5 * to the colorless people that sat there beneath her A5 curled up and stared 2:54- 3:17 (SOLO) A5 D5 C5 G5 A5 D5 C5 G5 3:18- 3:51 (SOLO & band) A5 D5 C5 G5 D5 C5 B5 D5 C5 B5 D5 C5 B5 A5 Chorus: 3:52- end D5 * C5 * B5 * I talked to the cousins of people who knew you D5 * C5 * B5 * I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like D5 * C5 * B5 * maybe a killing went down in your town A5 maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire... Joliet
