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Date: Sat, 10 Aug 1996 22:33:36 -0400
From: Bob Kaphan 


>From the *fabulous* Jules Shear album The Great Puzzle. This is the
opening track on this highly recommeded disk. Go out and buy it before
it's deleted.
This song is (c) 1992 Geffen Again Music/Juters Music, Inc/Funzalo
Music Ltd, administered by Music Corporation of America, Inc.

		The Trap Door (Shear)
		---------------------

Intro1:	| \ \ \ Bb ||: C   Bb :|| (repeat 7 times)

	Note: C = 3 beats, Bb = 1 beat
	      guitar solo over above

Intro 2: ||: Eb | Bb Ab | Gsus4 | G :|| G |

Verse1:	Eb
	Your enemies guard cornered you in a yard
	     Bb
	You paid him off and ran
	      Eb	     Ab
	You knew he'd understand
	      Eb     Bb     Eb
	He's just a workin man
	(Eb)
	But you think he's a fool just a capitalist tool
	      Bb
	Who plays the games of life to tie
	        Eb                       Ab
	If the tables had been turned tonight
                    Eb              Bb          Eb
	There'd be nothin that his money could buy - but soon...

Chorus:       C             G             Am               F
	The trap door gives in under the wicked weight of sin
                  C             G           C               G
	You fall down, down, down farther than you've ever been
                    C             G             Am               F
	Yeah, the trap door falls open just as you were smugly hoping
	                 C                  G             C
	That you could cheat and win, the trap door falls in

Verse2:    Eb                                  Bb
	So one escape does not a life make the earth floats under your feet
             Eb                  Ab
	You can't trust who you meet
	       Eb      Bb    Eb
	Your bravery's a conceit
                 Eb
	It's no longer suspense it's a fear that makes sense
         Bb
	Pullin you through the ground
              Eb                Ab
	The trap door makes no sound
             Eb       Bb     Eb
	One day just not around - Cause...

			(Chorus)
			(Intro2)

Verse3: Eb
	I should have known when I was struck with a stone
                      Bb
	That you were aiming at the moon
              Eb            Ab
	That like a gas balloon
         Eb         Bb       Eb
	You'd come falling soon - yeah-eh

		(solo over chorus chords)
		(Chorus) (<- lead with "Yeah the trap door...")

Coda:	F              C                    G        Ab  Bb    C
	That you could cheat and win, the trap door fa-a-a-lls in