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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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- | - 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 | ||
- | Keep the home fires burning \\ | ||
- | G | ||
- | Keep the home fires burning \\ | ||
- | G | ||
- | Keep the home, home fires \\ | ||
- | D G (Strummed hard for ending) \\ |