Blue Rodeo – 5 Days In May (Guitar)

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[Notes] Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked on strings 2 through 5 only. Those chords are: Am x0221x G/B x2000x C x3201x Cmaj9 x3243x [Intro] Em D Am C x2 [Verse 1]
Em
  They met in a hurricane

D
Standing in the shelter out of the rain

Am                           C
  She tucked a note into his hand

Em
  Later on they took his car

D
Drove on down where the beaches are

Am                         C
  He wrote her name in the sand

G          F             C    D
Never even let go of her hand
[Interlude] Em D Am C [Verse 2]
Em
  Somehow they stayed that way

D
  For those 5 days in May

Am                                C
  Made all the stars around them shine

Em
Funny how you can look in vain

D
Living on nerves and such sweet pain

Am                            C
  The loneliness that cuts so fine

   G                    F             C       D
To find the face you've seen a thousand times
[Chorus]
C
  Sometimes the world begins

   C
To set you up on your feet again

    Bm                               D
And oh, it wipes the tears from your eyes

C
  How will you ever know

    C
The way that circumstances go

Bm                         D
Always gonna hit you by surprise

      Am
But I know my past

G/B
You were there

   C               Cmaj9
In everything I've done
You are the one [Instrumental] Em D Am C x4 [Verse 3]
Em
  Looking back it's hard to tell

D
Why they stood while others fell

Am                           C
  Spend your life working it out

Em
All I know is one cloudy day

D
  They both just ran away

Am                              C
  Rain on the windshield headed south

G                 F               C      D
Oh, she loved the lines around his mouth
[Chorus]
C
  Sometimes the world begins

   C
To set you up on your feet again

    Bm                               D
And oh, it wipes the tears from your eyes

C
  How will you ever know

    C
The way that circumstances go

Bm                         D
Always gonna hit you by surprise

      Am
But I know my past

G/B
You were there

   C               Cmaj9
In everything I've done

            Em
You are the one
[Instrumental] Em D Am C x14 Em