Barenaked Ladies – When I Fall (Ukulele)

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"When I Fall" by the Barenaked Ladies Tabbed by www.JaeFord.com C G Am F
F                        C     G                 Am    F
  I look straight in the window, try not to look below

                   C   G                D     F
Pretend I'm not up here, I try counting sheep

                      C     G                Am    F
But the sheep seem to shower off this office tower

                          C  G                 D      F            
Nine-point-eight straight down I can't stop my knees
[Chorus]
               Am
I wish I could fly

          G
From this building

          D    F
From this wall

                Am
And if I should try

          G             D      F
Would you catch me if I fall?

                    C       G            Am      F
My hands clench the squeegee, my secular rosary

                C     G                 D      F
Hang on to your wallet, hang on to your rings

             C      G                Am       F
Can't look below me; something might throw me

                 C  G                D       F           
Curse at the windstorms that October brings

              C         G             Am         F
I look in the boardroom; a modern pharaoh's tomb

                C      G                D     F
I'd gladly swap places, if they care to dive

                        C     G                Am    F
They're lined up at the window, peer down into limbo

                      C      G                 D      F
They're frightened of jumping, in case they survive

               Am             G
I wish I could step from this scaffold 

     Em                   F                  Am
Onto soft green pastures, shopping malls, or bed

        G             Em            Am                D    F
With my family and my pastor and my grandfather who's Dead

                     C     G               Am      F
Look straight in the mirror, watch it come clearer

              C       G               D       F
I look like a painter, behind all the grease

                 C     G              Am     F
But paintings creating, and I'm just erasing

                C     G            D     F
A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece
[Chorus 2x]
C G        Am   F
    When I fall

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    When I fall

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