John Prine – Flashback Blues (Guitar)

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---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Dave S. Email: [email protected] Tuning: Standard Artist: John Prine Album: John Prine Year: 1971 * = strum once [Intro] C G C F C G C [Verse 1]

      C               G
While window shopping through the past

  C            F
I ran across a looking glass

C                  G                         C
Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light

C            G
Tragic magic prayers of passion

C                     F
Stay the same through changing fashions

     C                   G                   C
They freeze my mind like water on a winter’s night

[Pre-Chorus]

D
Spent most of my youth

    G
Out hobo cruising

D
And all I got for proof

   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

[Chorus]

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever

C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here

C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

[Instrumental] C G C F C G C [Verse 2]

C           G
Photographs show the laughs

C              F
Recorded in between the bad times

C             G                    C
Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship

C                G
Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies

C                   F
Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes

     C                     G                        C
Well sure I made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip.

[Pre-Chorus]

D
Spent most of my youth

    G
Out hobo cruising

D
And all I got for proof

   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

[Chorus]

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever

C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here

C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

[Verse 3]

    C                 G
And ten times what it grieves you

C                      F
That’s how much more I hate to leave you now

C             G                   C        
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

[Instrumental] C G C F C G C [Pre-Chorus]

D
Spent most of my youth

    G
Out hobo cruising

D
And all I got for proof

   G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes

[Chorus]

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever

C                     F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here

C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.

[Outro]

   C          G
So goodbye nonbeliever

          C           F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here

C             G                   C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.