Tabbed by John Eccleston Standard Tuning C#5 A5 C#5 B5 C#5 A5 Half-mast land grants homesteading laws C#5 Past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls B5 Practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls C#5 A5 I laid down my guns where the soldierfish swam C#5 And slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man B5 I saw Charlotte Corday with the knife in her hand. It was nothing new C#5 A5 I've perched on Steele Dakota's sandhill crane C#5 I flew among the Paiute before the Mormon rain B5 I was in Virginia City for the stringing up of Clubfoot Lane But I've never seen anything like you E5 A5 B5 All untied, by and by! B5 But I'd pour the matrimony wine E5 A5 B5 All untied, by and by! B5 E5 So if you're ever so inclined E5 Oh you're ever so inclined E5 Oh you're ever so inclined C#5 A5 While low in a lodgepole branch nearby C#5 A lovesick Barnyard, an amorous eye B5 What unprecedented gift does this afternoon provide? C#5 A5 What from the air now calls to water on the land? C#5 What from my seclusion does this charlatan demand? B5 What to do now with my best-laid eremetic plans? C#5 A5 I've been to the Arfaks where the Sicklebills fly C#5 Seen Tangier's acrobatics nine stories high B5 I was there at Appomattox back in '65 when the General arrived, but I've never been in this room before! E5 A5 B5 All untied, by and by! B5 That same old dream's trapped in my mind E5 A5 B5 All untied, by and by! B5 I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line E5 A5 B5 All untied, by and by! B5 E5 Well I wake up disappointed every time B5 E5 Well I wake up disappointed every time B5 E5 Well I wake up disappointed every time B5 E5 Well I wake up disappointed every time! B5 B5 And I wake up disappointed every time! B5 F5 If the weather ever withers up your vine B5 Jacob knows a ladder you can climb F5 If that old thorn is still buried in your side B5 Jacob knows a ladder you can climb F5 Well if your pacific rivers all run dry B5 Their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky F5 And if the pleasures of your heavens ever end B5 That very ladder just as well descends B5 F5 repeat.