• Song:

    Pittsburgh

  • Artist:

    Mason Jennings

  • Album:

    Blood Of Man

Tabbed by Drew Langworthy


Tuned half a step down

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My mom'd give me twenty and say "Stay out till dawn"
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When her boyfriend was over and they wanted me gone
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I would walk through the woods to the old graveyard
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And roll my own tops and think two kinda thoughts

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Are we high enough to clear these trees?
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I don't know

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That was the summer Dave's girlfriend OD'ed
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She died in the bathroom at a party down the street
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I went to see him the next night, he had a new tattoo
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He was watching home movies of her, his face was wet, he looked so confused
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They had a funeral for her, the preacher said she was with the Lord
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There were lots of pictures of her taped to a poster board

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Are we high enough to clear these trees?
           G5            E5
I don't know
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Are we high enough to clear this place?
          D5
I don't know

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Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
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High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right
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But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
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When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down
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I wound up that fall in a hospital
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On the suicide wing with a lot of people thinkin' one thing
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They had a sign on the wall that said "No touching at all"
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There were screams in the dark, nurses running down the hall

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On the night that I got there, they showered me and searched me hard
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Then they took me to my little room overlooking a graveyard
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When I opened my eyes I was strapped to the bed
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There was a needle in my arm , part of me was gone
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Then they took us outside in our slippers and gowns
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To play basketball on the blacktop, the ball just bounced till it stopped

       C5                E5
Are we high enough to clear these trees?
           G5            E5
I don't know
         C5              E5
Are we high enough to clear this place?
          D5
I don't know

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Grocery stores in the middle of the night shine their own kinda light
C5                                           G5
High school halls and shopping malls never fit me right
       C5                           D5
But my heart would swing free like a lasso from my hand
        C5                                   D5
When I'd hear that sound and put the pedal down

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When the leaves were wet behind the old duplex
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We used to run at night naked through the trees
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And you would lean back against me and I would try to stay soft
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We'd listen to the engines as the planes took off
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