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tabs:abandoning_my_father_talking_blues [2018/01/01 15:51]
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tabs:abandoning_my_father_talking_blues [2021/08/24 21:42]
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-Tabbed by Lord of Dutch 
  
-This is my first time tabbing anything here so feel free to correct anything that's wrong but this is how I hear it. (Sorry for the shaky syntax on this page, maybe someone can come by and fix it for me.) 
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-[Intro] 
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- G(walk up)C(walk up)D G 
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-- 2- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 - 2 - \\ 
-- 2- - - - - - - - -  - 1 - - - - - - - - 3 - 2 - \\ 
-- 0- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2 - 0 - \\ 
-- 0- - - - - - - - - - 2 - - 0 - 2 - 0 - - 0 - \\ 
-- 2- - - 0 - 2 - 3 - 3 - 3 - - - - - - - - 2 - \\ 
-- 3 -3 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 3 - \\ 
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-G  \\ 
-It was 9 A.M. when the U-Haul came  \\ 
-C \\ 
-And I heard my momma call my name \\ 
-D \\ 
-My daddy taught English at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo  \\ 
-G \\ 
-He was at work that day,  \\ 
-it was time to go, \\ 
-We were moving on \\ 
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-[Intro] 
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-G \\ 
-I was five years old and my sister was three \\ 
-C \\ 
-I was wondering what would likely become of me \\ 
-D \\ 
-My sister looked sad and I tried to be strong \\ 
-G \\ 
-It was hard just to get up and move along \\ 
-We were (?) \\ 
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-[intro] 
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-G \\ 
-But by five in the afternoon we were gone \\ 
-C \\ 
-And my stepfather welcomed me with open arms \\ 
-D \\ 
-We walked right through that apartment door \\ 
-G \\ 
-I had never lived in an apartment before \\ 
-And it was weird \\ 
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-[intro] 
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-G \\ 
-I'll probably never know what it was like that night \\ 
-C \\ 
-For my dad, but I'd wager it was pretty bad \\ 
-D \\ 
-My sister and me, we stayed up late \\ 
-G \\ 
-Talking in the dark and not feeling so great \\ 
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-(Guitar strumming simplifies and slows here to just soft downward strums) 
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-G              C                D  \\ 
-We were moving out of our house \\ 
-G // 
-Into a two-story apartment building across town \\ 
-C                      D                                      G      \\                                       
-With a swing set and a sandbox in the middle of a parking lot \\ 
-G                          C                        D \\ 
-And a laundry room full of missing washing machines \\ 
-G \\ 
-And two dryers \\ 
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-G                      G \\ 
-Keep the home fires burning \\ 
-G                      G \\ 
-Keep the home fires burning \\ 
-G                         \\ 
-Keep the home, home fires  \\ 
-D G (Strummed hard for ending) \\ 
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