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+edited by Mike/carnac44@gmail.com
 Taboo VI: The Homecoming - Going To Alaska
+For live versions, in standard tuning either go with above or:
+A D A E
+or
+E A E B
+for the main pattern
+Album Version:
+-1/2 step
+G C G D  G C G D
+G                C
+The jacaranda are wet with color,
+        G                            D
+and the heat is a great paint brush, lending color to our lives,
+     G                                C
+to the air, and to out faces; but I'm going to Alaska
+              G                         D
+where there's snow to suck the sound out from the air.
+C G
+G       C
+Up, yes, in the branches,
+G                       D
+the purple blossoms, go pale at the edges;
+        G                              C
+there is meaning in the shifting of the sap, and I see in them traces
+G                           D
+of last year, but then they hadn't grown so strong,
+G                                    C
+and their limbs were more like wires. Now they are cables.
+G                           D                    G
+thick and alive with alien electricity, and I am going to Alaska,
+     C                         G
+where you can go blind just by looking at the ground,
+D
+where fat is eaten by itself
+C                         G
+just to keep your body warm.
+G                         C
+Because from where we are now, it seems, really,
+    G                           D
+that everything is growing in a thousand different ways;
+G                                        C
+that the soil is soaked through with old blood and with relatives
+G                                           D
+who were buried here, or close to here, and they are giving rise
+G                                C
+to what is happening. Or can you tell me otherwise?
+     G                          D
+I am going to Alaska, where the animals can kill you,
+        G                     C
+but they do so in silence, as though if no-one hears them,
+        G                         D
+then it really won't matter. I am going to Alaska.
+C                                     G
+They tell me that it's perfect for my purposes.
+G C G D
+G C G D G
+</code>
+<code>
+Taboo VI: The Homecoming - Going To Alaska
+This version is tabbed from the WFMU set.
 D A G D A  D G D A  D A D
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 D G D A... D... D down D up!
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