He Doesnt Know Why Chords

by Fleet Foxes
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Difficulty: beginner
Tuning: E A D G B E
Capo: 1st fret
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5 contributors total, last edit on Aug 25, 2022

Chords

F
G
Dm
Am
Em
C

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[Verse 1]
 
F             G               F         G
Penniless and tired, with your hair grown long
      Dm             Am             Em          F
I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong
   C        Dm     Em      F
Memory is a fickle siren's song
  G
I didn't understand
 
 
[Verse 2]
 
F             G            F       G
In the gentle light as the morning nears
          Dm           Am           Em       F
You don't say a single word of your last two years
          C            Dm          Em      F
Where you were or when you reached the frontier
          G
I didn't understand, no
 
[Interlude]
 
C F G F x2
 
[Verse 3]
 
F                 G           F      G
See your rugged hands and a silver knife
       Dm              Am            Em      F
Twenty dollars in your hand makes you hold so tight
        C        Dm      Em      F
All the evidence of your vacant life
   G
My brother, you were gone
 
 
[Verse 4]
 
F                   G           F   G
And you will try to do what you did before
         Dm             Am          Em      F
Pull the wool over your eyes, for a week or more
         C      Dm       Em      F
Let your family take you back to your
G
Original mind.
 
 
[Bridge]
 
        C             C
There's nothing I can do
        F             C
There's nothing I can do
        C             C
There's nothing I can say
        F             C
There's nothing I can say
      C
I can say
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12 comments
forestlights
Great tab. Here are the correct lyrics: Penniless and tired, with your hair grown long I was looking at you there and your face looked wrong Memory is a fickle siren song I didn't understand In the gentle light as the morning nears You don't say a single word of your last two years Where you were or when you reached the frontier I didn't understand, no See your rugged hands and a silver knife Twenty dollars in your hand makes you hold so tight All the evidence of your vacant life My brother you were born And you will try to do what you did before Pull the wool over your eyes For a week or more Let your family take you back to your original mind There's nothing I can do There's nothing I can do There's nothing I can say There's nothing I can say I can say
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justjonesy
Isn't the interlude after the second verse? not trying to be picky
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Bigman551
Good Tab. I Agree About The Lyrics Though. Its a sad meening this song. It's about one of the members brother who took drugs and had brain spasms. He ran away from home when he was 15 and I think the pianoist(the drug addicts bro) hasn't seen him since and has nearly forgotten about him.
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