La Dispute – Hudsonville Mi 1956 (Guitar)

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by: Andros

Gm
There are bridges over rivers

There are moments of collapse There are drivers with their feet on the glass You can kick but you can?t get out There is history in the rooms of the house After dinner Do the dishes Mother hums The coffeemaker hisses on the stove The steam a crescendo The radio emergency bulletins and Everywhere wind Gm Dm Am Bb F Am C

Gm
     You took the train down to Terra Haute, Indiana

Visit family, your childhood home

F
Give your mother her grandkid and father a kiss

Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit

Gm
  With your husband still up in Hudsonville

Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill

F
Running water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove

Heard a warning from the corner on the radio

Gm
  And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames

Gm                 F
So you went underground

                      Am
Took the staircase down

                   Bb
To the cellar full of hunting equipment

Gm                     F
Held your baby in your arms

                   Am
Read the labels on mason jars

            Bb                     
Try not to think about your husband in Michigan

Gm
 Stay calm

Keep the radio loud Take care Wind howls

            F
Father piles blankets in the corner by the furnace

Mother lights candles It?s a miracle the baby doesn?t cry

Gm
 Back home doing yard work outside

Husband being stubborn under dark skies

F
Saw the fence by the neighbor?s shed split

Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in

            Gm     Bb                 C
So you went down to the back steps then to the basement

Dm                         C                      
There were bookshelf plans on the workbench

F                  C
And a flashlight shining bright all night try not to think about your son and your wife

Gm  Bb                    C                
   And the lightning that scattered the night sky

Dm                        C
And the wind bursts that tore up the power lines

F                     C
At the workbench in the basement

Where you sat and tried to wait out the night

Gm                                  F
  You called for three straight days

Still with your family back home

Gm                                                        F
  Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground

And the phone lines were down

Turn the radio up
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D|-0-3-------------------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|

Gm                                         F
  There?s a woman who got thrown from her car into a barbed wire fence

                    Gm
She was 6-months pregnant

Both her and the baby lived

         F
You tried but the line or?

I remember those nights ((not quite sure about this next part until "stay calm"))

I couldn't get through to you 
E|----------|
B|----------|
G|-2-02-5-2-|
D|----------|
A|----------|
E|----------|

Gm                 Bb
when quiet storms came rattled the window panes

Couldn?t keep a thing the same way
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B|----------|
G|-2-02-5-2-|
D|----------|
A|----------|
E|----------|

Am                          Dm
  when the storm blew in and the furniture rearranged

Gm        Bb   Am   F
I can see lightning there and a funnel cloud

                    Gm             Bb    Am            Gm
And her mother said ?I swear I saw lightning in your eyes

When that call got through to the other side.?

Gm
Stay calm

Keep the radio loud

         F
Stay down

There are bridges over rivers Sirens in the distant Wind howls Keep down

Gm
  Then

After dinner do the dishes Mother hums

      F
Wires snap

Metal gets twisted There?s the rattle of the window glass Bending in

Gm
  Take the children down

Terra Haute Coffee

F
 Thanksgiving

Stay calm Keep down At the workbench Stay

Gm
  And the coffeemaker hisses

Stay calm Keep down

  F
Turn the radio

There are There are moments of collapse