• Song:

    Pink Slips

  • Artist:

    Okkervil River

Okay, I had this all tabbed out and then due to UG's shitty design I previewed it 
then went back and magically deleted it all. incredible. So here it is rougher 
than it was the first time round. Chorus chords where the vocal melody climbs im 
not 100% sure on, post revisions as comments please.

Standard Tuning
CAPO 1



A (x02220@1)                              F#m (244222@1)                   
Three brides before breakfast. These rails just wrecked us. 
Bm (x24432@1)                               D (xx0232@1)        EMy (022100@1)right hand on my heart while my left hand snaps your necklace.

A (x02220@1)                                F#mEach (244222@1)day gets a little more scary. We're holding on, in a way, but just barely. 
Bm (x24432@1)                               D (xx0232@1)           EMoms (022100@1)and Dads are rationing their cash for the commissary.

D (xx0232@1)      E (022100@1)          C#m (x13321@4) F#m (244222@1)   Bm (x24432@1)         D (xx0232@1)           EBut (022100@1)I can't start without going all the way - it's a habit someone gave me. 
    A (x02220@1)                              F#m (244222@1)                       
The nursemaid of the blank page. A canary of the American eclipse. 
     D (xx0232@1)                EA (022100@1)profiteer picking up pink slips.

A (x02220@1)                                 F#m (244222@1)                              
This wish just to go back, hey... when I know wasn't ever, ever happy! 
Bm (x24432@1)                           D (xx0232@1)      EShow (022100@1)me my best memory - it's probably super crappy. 
A (x02220@1)                            F#m (244222@1)                
Nine years down in Texas, with sluts of both sexes, 
Bm (x24432@1)                                 D (xx0232@1)        Eliars, (022100@1)lumps, and drug addicts, and drunks; I love my friends,

D (xx0232@1)      E (022100@1)         C#m (x13321@4) F#m (244222@1)   Bm (x24432@1)          D (xx0232@1)                 Ebut (022100@1)I can't stop without going all the way, and I've been that way since '83.
A (x02220@1)                            F#mThe (244222@1)midwife of the jetlife. Oh, genie with a golden spliff. 
  D (xx0232@1)                EA (022100@1)prostitute paid in pink slips.

A (x02220@1)                                              F#mI (244222@1)crashed my Cadillac in the valley of mirrors. When the call came, there was nobody here. 
Bm (x24432@1)                                                           
When they came from the communists, I kissed them on the lips. 
          D (xx0232@1)                        EThen (022100@1)they came for the singers, in a haze of pink slips.

A (x02220@1)                                       F#m (244222@1)            
I guess I was just dreaming and drifting, artificially lifted. 
Bm (x24432@1)                        D (xx0232@1)             EOnly (022100@1)happy until the age of ten is still a gift,

D (xx0232@1)         E (022100@1)           C#m (x13321@4)F#m (244222@1)Bmbut (x24432@1)we can't go back to those   "227"     days. 
             D (xx0232@1)              EIt's (022100@1)just a dream we all were having. 
A (x02220@1)                                   F#mHey, (244222@1)mariner in the dirt trade. Oh, postman of the post-apocalypse - 
      D (xx0232@1)                 Efrom (022100@1)Academy Awards to pink slips!

A (x02220@1)                                                           F#mAnd (244222@1)I showered my Corvette with Moët for years, but now I'm standing
 in the rain drinking the champagne of beers. 
          BmThey (x24432@1)say, "Who's that shadow sneaking off behind the pier? 
        D (xx0232@1)                                            EHe (022100@1)was rushed and then he was rattled, but now he's finally in the clear to be a

A (x02220@1)                                      F#mrefugee (244222@1)from the rat race, in his white tuxedo and his sad-face. 
  Bm (x24432@1)                               D (xx0232@1)                  EA (022100@1)music group that your dad plays, singing songs about autumn days. 
A (x02220@1)                                        F#mHe's (244222@1)the laureate of the Granite State, and now he doesn't even write, he just riffs. 
             D (xx0232@1)                        EAnd (022100@1)they'll cover up his coffin with pink slips."

                                                                
                        
                        
                        
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