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Day After Tomorrow

Intro : c c e a | C/g G7 | C/g F/g | C/g F/g |

C/g F/g C/g F/g C/g G7

I got your letter today and I miss you all so much here

Am C/g Am C/g G7

I can't wait to see you all and I'm counting the days dear

F C/g F

I still believe that there's gold at the end of the world

C/g F/g C/g F/g C/g G7 C/g

And I'll come home to Illinois on the day after tomorrow

C/g F/g C/g F/g C/g G7

It is so hard and it's cold here and I'm tired of taking orders

Am C/g

And I miss old Rockford town

Am C/g G7

up by the Winconsin border

F C/g

What I miss you won't believe,

shoveling snow and raking leaves

C/g F/g C/g F/g

And my plane will touch down

C/g G7 C/g F/g C/g F/g

on the day after tomorrow

C/g F/g C/g

I close my eyes every night

F/g C/g G7 G7

and I dream that I can hold you

Am C/g

They fill us full of lies everyone buys

Am C/g G7

about what it means to be a soldier

F C/g

I still don't know how I'm supposed to feel

about all the blood that's been spilled

C/g F/g C/g

Will God on his throne get me back home

F/g C/g G7 C/g F/g C/g F/g

on the day after tomorrow?

C/g F/g C/g

You can't deny the other side

F/g C/g G7

don't want to die anymore than we do

Am C/g

What I'm trying to say is don't they pray

Am C/g G7

to the same God that we do?

F C/g

And tell me how does God choose

whose prayers does he refuse?

C/g F/g C/g

Who turns the wheel, who throws the dice

F/g C/g G7 C/g F/g C/g F/g

on the day after tomo - rrow?

| F | F | C/g | C/g | F | F | C/g | G7 |

C/g F/g C/g F/g C/g G7

I am not fighting for justice, I am not fighting for freedom

Am C/g Am C/g G7

I am fighting for my life and another day in the world here

F C/g

I just do what I've been told,

we're just the gravel on the road

C/g F/g C/g

And only the lucky ones come home

F/g C/g G7 C/g F/g C/g F/g

on the day after tomorrow

C/g F/g C/g

And the summer it too will fade

F/g C/g G7

and with it brings the winter's frost dear

Am C/g

And I know we too are made of

Am C/g G7

all the things that we have lost here

F C/g F

I'll be twenty one today, I've been saving all my pay

C/g F/g C/g

And my plane will touch down

F/g C/g G7 C/g F/g C/g F/g

on the day after tomorrow

Dead and Lovely

Intro : | Cm /g | Cm /g | Cm Ab7 G7 | Cm |

She was a middle class girl

She was in over her head

Fm Cm

She thought she could stand up in the deep end

He had a bullet proof smile

He had money to burn

Fm Cm

She thought she had the moon in her pocket

Cm Ab7

But now she's dead

Cm Ab7

She's so dead

Cm Ab7 G7 Cm

Forever dead and love - ly now

Fm C#7 Fm C#7

I've always been told to remember this

Cm Ab7

Don't let a fool kiss you

Gb9 G7

Never marry for love

He was hard to impress

He knew everyone's secrets

Fm Cm

He wore her on his arm just like jewelry

He never gave but he got

He kept her on a leash

Fm Cm

He's not the kind of wheel you fall asleep at

Cm Ab7

But now she's dead

Cm Ab7

Forever dead

Cm Ab7 G7 Cm

Forever dead and love ly now

Fm C#7

Come closer, look deeper

Fm C#7

You've fallen fast

Cm Ab7 Gb9 G7

Just like a plane on a stormy sea

She made up someone to be

She made up somewhere to be from

This is one business in the world

where that's no problem at all

Every thing that is left

They will only plough under

Fm Cm

Soon everyone you knew will be gone

Cm Ab7

But now she's dead

Cm Ab7

Forever dead x2

Cm Ab7 G7 Cm

Forever dead and lovely now

Fm C#7 Fm C#7

I've always been told to remember this

Cm Ab7

Don't let a kiss fool you

Gb9 G7

Never marry for love

Everything has its price

Everything has its place

Fm Cm

What's more romantic than dying in the moonlight?

Now they're all watching the sea

What's lost can never be broken

Fm Cm

Her roots were sweet but they were so shallow

Cm Ab7

And now she's dead

Cm Ab7

Forever dead

Cm Ab7 G7 Cm

Forever dead and love ly now x2

Green Grass

Intro : | Cm eb d c g g g# | Fm c c# d |

| g# g f# c f | Cm c b bb g# a f g f eb d eb f#

eb d c | G7 + g# |

| Cm | Cm |

Cm Fm

Lay your head where my heart used to be

G Cm

Hold the earth above me

Lay down on the green grass

G Cm

Remember when you love me

Cm Fm

Come closer don't be shy

G Cm G#

Stand beneath a rainy sky

The moon is over the rise

Think of me as a train goes by

Fm G7

Clear the thistles and brambles

Cm G#

Whistle didn't he ramble

Now there's a bubble of me

And it's floating in thee

Fm Bb

Stand in the shade of me

Eb Ebm

Things are now made of me

The weather vane will say

It smells like rain today

God took the stars and he tossed 'em

G Cm

Can't tell The birds from the blossoms

You'll never be free of me

G Cm

He'll make a tree from me

Don't say goodbye to me

G Cm

Describe the sky to me

And if the sky falls

G Cm

Mark My words, we'll catch mocking birds

| Fm | G | Cm | G# | G# | G | Cm | Cm |

Cm Fm

Lay your head where my heart used to be

G Cm

Hold the earth above me

Lay down on the green grass

G Cm

Remember when you love me

How's It Gonna End

Intro : | Am /b | Am /e | Am /b | Am /e |

Am C/g Dm

He had three whole dollars, worn out car

Am E Am

A wife who was leaving for good

Am C/g Dm

Life's made of trouble, worry, pain and struggle

Dm F7 E

She wrote goodbye in the dust on the hood

Dm Am

They found a map of Missouri, lipstick on the glass

Dm F E7/g#

They must of left in the middle of the night

Dm E/g# Am

And I want to know the same thing

Everyone wants to know

Dm E/g# /e Am

How's it going to end?

Am C/g Dm

Behind a smoke coloured curtain the girl disappeared

Am E Am

They found out that the ring was a fake

Am C/g Dm

A tree born crooked will never grow straight

Dm F7 E

She sunk like a hammer into the lake

Dm Am

A Long lost letter and a old leaky boat

Dm F E7/g#

Promises are never meant to keep

Dm E/g# Am

And I want to know the same thing

I want to know

Dm E/g# Am

How's it going to end?

Am C/g Dm

The barn leaned over, the vultures dried their wings

Am E Am

The moon climbed up an empty sky

Am C/g Dm

The sun sank down behind the tree on the hill

Dm F7 E

There's a killer and he's coming thru the rye

Dm Am

But maybe he's the father of that lost little girl

Dm F E7/g#

It's hard to tell in this light

Dm E/g# Am

And I want to know the same thing

Everyone wants to know

Dm E/g# Am

How's it going to end?

Drag your wagon and your plough over the bones of the dead

Dm Am

Out amoung the roses and the weeds

You can never go back and the answer is no

Dm F E7

And wishing for it only makes it bleed

Am C/g Dm

Joel Tornabene was broken on the wheel

Am E Am

Shane and Bum Mahoney on the lamb

Am C/g Dm

The grain was as gold as Shelia's hair

Dm F7 E

All the way from Liverpool with all we could steal

Dm Am

He was robbed of twenty dollars, his body found stripped

Dm F E7/g#

Cast into the harbour there and drowned

Dm E/g# Am

And I want to know the same thing

We all want to know

Dm E/g# Am

How's it going to end?

Am C/g Dm

The sirens are snaking their way up the hill

Am E Am

It's last call somewhere in the world

Am C/g Dm

The reptiles blend in with the colour of the street

Dm F7 E

Life is sweet at the edge of a razor

Dm Am

And down in the first row of an old picture show

Dm F E7/g#

The old man is asleep as the credits start to roll

Dm E/g# Am

And I want to know the same thing

We all want to know (3^rd : I want to know)

Dm E/g# Am

How's it going to end? x3

Make It Rain

Intro : a | Bm | Bm | Bm | Bm |

Bm Bm

She took all my money and my best friend

Em Bm

You know the story, here it comes again

F# Em

I have no pride, I have no shame

Bm Bm

You gotta make it rain, make it rain

Bm Bm

Since you're gone deep inside it hurts

Em Bm

I'm just another sad guest on this dark earth

F# Em

I want to believe in the mercy of the world again

Bm Bm

Make it rain, make it rain

Em Bm

The nights too quiet stretched out alone

F# Bm eb

I need the whip of thunder and the winds dark moan

Em Bm

I'm not Able, I'm just Cain

C#7 F#7

Open up the heavens make it rain

Bm Bm

I'm close to heaven, crushed at the gate

Em Bm

They sharpen their knives on my mistakes

F# Em

What she done you can't give it a name

Bm Bm

You gotta make it rain, make it rain, yeah

| Bm | Bm | Em | Bm | F# | Em | Bm | Bm |

Em Bm

Without her love, without your kiss

F# Bm e d b eb

Hell can't burn me more than this

Em Bm

I'm burning with all this pain

C#7 F#7

Put out the fire, make it rain

Bm Bm

I'm born to trouble, I'm born to fate

Em Bm

Inside a promise I can't escape

F# Em

It's the same old world but nothing looks the same

Bm Bm

Make it rain, make it rain

F# F#7/Bb Bm

Gotta make it rain,

F# F#7/Bb Bm

make it rain

F# F#7/Bb Bm

You got to make it rain

F# F#7/B Bm

Got to make it rain

F# F#7/B Bm

You got to I stand alone here

F# F#7/B Bm

I stand alone here

F# F#7/B Bm

Singing make it rain etc..