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Silverfishes - Frontier Ruckus
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Tabbed by: 3lacksabbath81
Email: sskinner@wit.edu

Deadmalls & Nightfalls: Track 5

Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel
David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro
Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards
Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion

Tuning: Standard

Intro:                                                    OTHERCHORDS

     Am    C     C#   D(no5) Fmaj7 Em    Riff           A   (A)   A/C#
e||--0--|--0--|-----|-----|--0--|-----|--------||    |--0----0----0----|
B||--1--|--1--|--2--|--3--|--1--|--0--|-----0--||    |--2----5----8----|
G||--2--|--0--|--0--|--0--|--2--|--0--|----(0)-|x2   |--2----6----9----|
D||--2--|--2--|--3--|--4--|--3--|--2--|--------||    |--2----7----11---|
A||--0--|--3--|--4--|--5--|-----|--2--|-2h3----||    |--0--------------|
E||-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|--0--|--------||    |-----------------|


Verse I:


Am                                                   C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C#      D(no5)
For the refuse
        Fmaj7                 Em
That is littering all of your clues
Am                         C                        C#       D(no5)
Orion is dead and gone but something in it still be-longs to me
    Fmaj7          Em
The bright night I see
Am
High hot-time all the braggarts drag
      C                      C#
Their boats down to the water
D(no5)
She dragged down to drown each and every
Fmaj7              Em
Brown rag I bought her
Am
The silverfish they ditch their skins as
    C                     C#
The Saturday air raid beg-ins
D(no5)
Pitching exoskeletons
Fmaj7              Em
Revolting in their molting
Am
Dont you know Im just like that?
C                             C#
You can tell where Ive been at
D(no5)
On every doormat I have sat
  Fmaj7       Em
A relic so an-gelic
Dm
Oh the once hard-biting night
    D                               Fmaj7 Em
Now ruthlessly a toothless sight to see


Verse II:


Am                                           C
A shot down Telegraph with a hot laugh as we cruise
C#          D(no5)
Through the sinews
Fmaj7                  Em
Connecting all of your clues
Am
The blinds they clap for the
            C
The napping overheated tangles
D
Daytime may climb high until the dusk sucks out

All that it mangles
Am
Melting with the blacktop moms
     C                      C#
On a bed of palms and psalms
D
Immersed in the universe
   Fmaj7              Em
Of off-ramp proms and sitcoms
Dm
Sylvan Lake and in between
D                          Fmaj7
Perpetually like Halloween
      Em
I saw you
Am                                C
In the dormitory with the warming glory
              C#
Of the harvest
D
The pilings of the night are whiling out
            Fmaj7         Em
Where their forms are the largest


Bridge:

Am  C  D(no5) Fmaj7  Em

e|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|------0---------|
A|---3-----3--2~--|
E|----------------|


F
Feeling about half as vicious
Em                      A
As all the silverfishes crawl
F
If I truly am a coward
Em
Memory-fueled and fear-powered
A  (A) A/C#
Ill be damned


    F    Em
But if I were
     C        D
That gorgeous blur
Dm  Em
Id  be
Am
Sure


Horn & Banjo Solo Section: Play verse Chords four times through. 2 bars for horn and 2 
bars for banjo.



Verse III:


Am                                                   C
A bright-night-kitchen moth and the washcloth that I use
C#      D(no5)
For the refuse
        Fmaj7                 Em
That is littering all of your clues


Am
Tripped up on the alley-weed
C                           C#
Through which I elbowed and kneed
    D
The bottle of my beer emptied
    Fmaj7          Em
And I was warm and fluid
Am
The body is a bottle, I guess
C                              C#
That I would like to throttle, yes
D
Mottled skin and spilling sin
      Fmaj7       Em
And a holiness so stupid
    Dm
The heaven that I long to see
    D
The undone linearity
    Fmaj7 Em
Ive pro-  ven
Dm
Is all the love Ive tried to show
D
Buried where those buildings glow
    Fmaj7  Em (Riff)
And ruined?


Am(let ring)


Sources:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK6kG7MpWfA
http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/


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| /   slide up
| \   slide down
| h   hammer-on
| p   pull-off
| ~   vibrato
| b   Bend

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