Cold War Kids – Saint John (Guitar)

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B              A   E
Supper time in the hole

B              A   E
Supper time in the hole

           B             A  E
I shame my family, shame my home

B          A    E
Supper time

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting for a pardon

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting for a pardon

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting for a pardon

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting

B                  E      F#
All the white boys in the Sta-Prest slacks

        A                   E    B
They're home for the summer from college

B                 E       F#
Staying out late, getting rowdy at the bar

    A                   E B
And looking for trouble uptown

     B                 E     F#
They come up my block, 'bout 5 or 6 of them

A                      E      B
Smashing their bottles in the gutter

B                    E  F#
Yelling all kinds of obscenities

      A             E   B
About woman and God and law

        B              A   E
Another supper time in the hole

B          A    E
Supper time

           B             A  E
I shame my family, shame my home

B          A    E
Supper time

        B                      E      F#
A young girl turned the corner with a clerk dress on

A             E  B
That girl was my sister

     B                 E        F#
Just got off the night shift at Pennington's Place

     A                E         B
Just wanna go home and get some sleep

     B                        E          F#
Boys grabbed her by the waist with their caffeine eyes

    A               E    B
The hands all fidgety, electric

  B                 E       F#
I picked up a brick from my papa's front yard

    A                       E     B
And threw it at the Turners boy's face

      B                   E      F#
Well, blood was streaming like a well that sprung

  A                       E   B
I couldn't believe what I had just done

          B             E   F#
Well, the other boy ran and this one stayed

       A                         E    F#
On the ground and he would never move again

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting for a pardon

B              E  F#
Old Saint John on death row

A                 E     B
He's just waiting for a pardon

B           E  F#
All us boys on death row

A                  E     B
We're just waiting for a pardon

B           E  F#
All us boys on death row
[Outro] B A E x 2
         B                
Yours truly on trial, I testify

     A     E
I got to keep on running till the well run dry

         B                
Yours truly on trial, I testify

     A     E
I got to keep on running till the well run dry

         B                
Yours truly on trial, I testify

     A     E
I got to keep on running till the well run dry

         B                
Yours truly on trial, I testify

     A     E
I got to keep on running till the well run dry
B A E x 2