mewithoutYou – Nine Stories (Guitar)

C#m                                   A
Half-mast land grants homesteading laws

                                     C#m
Past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls

                                       B
Practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls

C#m                                        A
I laid down my guns where the soldierfish swam

                                                 C#m
And slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man

                                B
I saw Charlotte Corday with the knife in her hand. It was nothing new

C#m                                       A
I've perched on Steele Dakota's sandhill crane

                                           C#m
I flew among the Paiute before the Mormon rain

                                                         B
I was in Virginia City for the stringing up of Clubfoot Lane

E      A           B
All untied, by and by!

B
But I'd pour the matrimony wine

E      A           B
All untied, by and by!

B                             E
So if you're ever so inclined

E
Oh you're ever so inclined

E
Oh you're ever so inclined

C#m                                 A
While low in a lodgepole branch nearby

                                   C#m
A lovesick Barnyard, an amorous eye

                                               B
What unprecedented gift does this afternoon provide?

C#m                                         A
What from the air now calls to water on the land?

                                             C#m
What from my seclusion does this charlatan demand?

                                          B
What to do now with my best-laid eremetic plans?

C#m                                           A
I've been to the Arfaks where the Sicklebills fly

                                       C#m
Seen Tangier's acrobatics nine stories high

                                                       B
I was there at Appomattox back in '65 when the General arrived, but I've never been in 

E      A           B
All untied, by and by!

B
That same old dream's trapped in my mind

E      A           B
All untied, by and by!

B
I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line

E      A           B
All untied, by and by!

B                                        E
Well I wake up disappointed every time

       B                          E
Well I wake up disappointed every time

       B                          E
Well I wake up disappointed every time

               B                      E
Well I wake up disappointed every time!

      B                            Bm
And I wake up disappointed every time!

Bm                                  F#
If the weather ever withers up your vine

                             Bm
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb

                                          F#
If that old thorn is still buried in your side

                              Bm
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb

                                    F#
Well if your pacific rivers all run dry

                                         Bm
Their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky

                                          F#
And if the pleasures of your heavens ever end

                                  Bm
That very ladder just as well descends