Song: Hold Your Breath
Artist: The Acorn
Album: "Glory Hope Mountain" [2007]

Tab by Devin Miller

Tuning: 1/2 Step Down (D# G# C# F# A# d#)

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CHORD REFERENCE (use these, not the ones UG puts as a link
                 above the lyrics):

   Em7   G   Am    G7   G6   D    C
e|-----------------1----0----2----0----|
B|--3----3----1----3----3----3----1----|
G|--0----0----2----0----0----2----0----|
D|--2----0----2----0----0----0----2----|
A|--2----2----0----x----x---------3----|
E|--0----3----0----3----3--------------|

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          Em7                                  G
There's a river that parts the valley of this town

Em7                           G
Following the road up to your father's farm

     Em7                          G
Your rosy lungs were empty on the day that you were born

    Em7                                     G
And no one thought you'd make it past the morning

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Am            G
Ho...........Hum

Am            G
Ho...........Hum

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     Em7                
Your brother said your mother

                                   G
Was a firefly you buried in the earth

    Em7
And every night, the fire light

                                 G
Warms the tender bits of skin beneath your shirt

    Em7                               G
The climbing constellations move in semi-tones

    Em7                                                    G
And set behind the county line in a melody of gravitation



Electric guitar riff:

e|---------10-------|---------10-------|
B|---8----------8---|---8--------------|
G|-7----7-----------|-7----7-----------|
D|------------------|------------------|
A|------------------|------------------|
E|------------------|------------------|

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Am            G
Ho...........Hum

Am            G
Ho...........Hum

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Em7                              G7 G7 G6 G6 G G
Calling on the colours of the road!

Em7                               G7 G7 G6 G6 G G
Sleep amongst the mango trees and poison toads

  Em7                                    G7 G7 G6 G6 G G
A flood for every footprint, and every mile you forgot

Em7                                  G7 G7 G6 G6 G G
Though your hands were little, they always gave a lot

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Am            G
Hold your breath...

Am            G
Hold your breath...

Am            G
Hold your breath...

 Am           G
Hold your breath...

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C      D

(x2)

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C                   D    
    The sanctity of soil

C                       D
    Wandering roots and living oils

C                   D
    Reunions underground

           C                                       D
Sunlight surfacing, and all around, mountains like diaphragms...

                                    G
The rhythm of a landscape that is breathing

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G (repeat until end)


Ending electric guitar riff:

e|-------7---5-----|------7--5-------|
B|--8h10-8---7-----|-8h10-8--7-------|
G|-----------------|------------7----|
D|-----------------|-----------------|
A|-----------------|-----------------|
E|-----------------|-----------------|

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TAB LEGEND:

| /  slide up
| \  slide down
| h  hammer-on
| p  pull-off
| ~  vibrato
| +  harmonic
| x  Mute note
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