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John Allyn Smith Sails - Okkervil River
Tabbed by: Jimbo
This little number is off their new album “The Stage Names”, which by the way could be
best album of 07
(intro)(bridge)
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E B
By the second verse, dear friends
C#m A
My head will burst, my life will end
B
So, I'd like to start this one off by saying
E
"Live and love"
E B
I was young and at home in bed
C#m A
And I was hanging on the words some poem said
B
And thirty-one
E
I was impressionable
F#m
I was upsettable
C#m A B
I tried to make my breathing stop, my heart beat slow
C#m A B
So, when my mom and John came in, I would be cold
(bridge)
E B C#m A
From a bridge on Washington Avenue, the year of 1972
B E
Broke my bones and skull and it was memorable
E B
It was half a second and I was halfway down
C#m A B
Do you think I wanted to turn back around and teach a class
E F#
Where you kiss the ass that I've exposed to you
C#m A B
And at the funeral, the University
C#m A B
Cried at three poems they'd present in place of a broken me
(bridge)
E B
I was breaking in a case of suds
C#m A B E
At the brass rail, a fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out and his balls removed
E B C#m A
And I knew that my last lines were gone while stupidly I lingered on,
B
other wise men
E
know when it's time to go
F#m
And so I should, too
C#m A B
And so I fly into the brightest winter sun
C#m A B
Of this frozen town, I'm stripped down to move on
F#m A B
My friends, I'm gone
E
Well, I hear my father fall
E
And I hear my mother call
E B
And I hear the others all whisper, "Come home"
E
I'm sorry to go
A
I loved you all so
E B A
But this is the worst trip I've ever been on
E
So, hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
E B
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
E
With a book in my hand
A
In the way I had planned
E B E
Well, this is the worst trip I've ever been on
E
Hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
E B
I've folded my heart in my head and I wanna go home
E
With a book in each hand
(With a book in each hand)
A
In the way I had planned
(In the way I had planned)
E B
I feel so broke up
E
I wanna go home
