La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi 1956
Standard Tuning
by: Andros

Gm
There are bridges over rivers
There are moments of collapse
There are drivers with their feet on the glass
You can kick but you can?t get out
There is history in the rooms of the house

After dinner
Do the dishes
Mother hums
The coffeemaker hisses on the stove
The steam a crescendo
The radio emergency bulletins and
Everywhere wind

Gm Dm Am Bb

F     Am C

Gm
     You took the train down to Terra Haute, Indiana
Visit family, your childhood home

F
Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss
Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit

Gm
  With your husband still up in Hudsonville
Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill

F
Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove
Heard a warning from the corner on the radio

Gm
  And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames
 
Gm                 F
So you went underground
                      Am
Took the staircase down
                   Bb
To the cellar full of hunting equipment
Gm                     F
Held your baby in your arms
                   Am
Read the labels on mason jars
            Bb                     
Try not to think about your husband in Michigan

Gm
 Stay calm
Keep the radio loud
Take care
Wind howls

            F
Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace
Mother lights candles
It?s a miracle the baby doesn?t cry

Gm
 Back home doing yard work outside
Husband being stubborn under dark skies

F
Saw the fence by the neighbor?s shed split
Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in

            Gm     Bb                 C
So you went down to the back steps then to the basement
Dm                         C                      
There were bookshelf plans on the workbench
F                  C
And a flashlight shining bright all night try not to think about your son and your wife
Gm  Bb                    C                
   And the lightning that scattered the night sky
Dm                        C
And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines
F                     C
At the workbench in the basement
Where you sat and tried to wait out the night

Gm                                  F
  You called for three straight days
Still with your family back home
Gm                                                        F
  Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground
And the phone lines were down

Turn the radio up
E|-----------------------|
B|-----------------------|
G|-----0-2---------------|
D|-0-3-------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

Gm                                         F
  There?s a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence
                    Gm
She was 6-months pregnant

Both her and the baby lived
         F
You tried but the line or?
I remember those nights

((not quite sure about this next part until "stay calm"))

I couldn't get through to you 
E|----------|
B|----------|
G|-2-02-5-2-|
D|----------|
A|----------|
E|----------|

Gm                 Bb
when quiet storms came rattled the window panes

Couldn?t keep a thing the same way
E|----------|
B|----------|
G|-2-02-5-2-|
D|----------|
A|----------|
E|----------|

Am                          Dm
  when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged
Gm        Bb   Am   F
I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud
                    Gm             Bb    Am            Gm
And her mother said ?I swear I saw lightning in your eyes
When that call got through to the other side.?

Gm
Stay calm
Keep the radio loud
         F
Stay down
There are bridges over rivers
Sirens in the distant
Wind howls
Keep down
Gm
  Then
After dinner do the dishes
Mother hums
      F
Wires snap
Metal gets twisted
There?s the rattle of the window glass
Bending in
Gm
  Take the children down
Terra Haute
Coffee
F
 Thanksgiving
Stay calm
Keep down
At the workbench
Stay
Gm
  And the coffeemaker hisses
Stay calm
Keep down
  F
Turn the radio
There are
There are moments of collapse