Okkervil River – John Allyn Smith Sails (Guitar)

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[Chords] A: 577655 (before "I hear my father fall" part) / 002220 (after "I hear my father fall" part) Asus4: 002240 B: 113331 (when after E) / 799877 (when after A) C#m: 446654 E: 022100 Esus4: 022200 E5/B: 022400 F#m: 244222 Chords in parentheses are Palm Muted, e.g., "(E)"

[Intro]
E|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|---------1------|
A|---2--4-----2---|
E|----------------|

[Verse 1]

E             B
By the second verse, dear friends

   C#m                 A
My head will burst, my life will end

       B                                     E
So I'd like to start this one off by saying "Live and love"

      E            B
I was young and at home in bed

          C#m                       A             B
And I was hanging on the words some poem said in '31

      E                     F#m
I was impressionable, I was upsettable

[Chorus 1]

           C#m               A
I tried to make my breathing stop

                B
Or my heartbeat slow

           C#m               A             B
So when my mom and John came in I would be cold

[Riff]
E|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|---------6------|
E|---7--9-----7---|

[Verse 2]

       E                    B
From a bridge on Washington Avenue

    C#m       A            B
The year of 1972, broke my bones and skull

           E
And it was memorable

       E                       B
It was half a second in, I was halfway down

       C#m               A                    B
Do you think I wanted to turn back around and teach a class

          E                      F#m
Where you kiss the ass that I've exposed to you?

[Chorus 2]

           C#m          A        B
And at the funeral, the university

               C#m             A
Cried at three poems they'd present

              B
In place of a broken me

[Riff]
E|----------------|
B|----------------|
G|----------------|
D|----------------|
A|---------6------|
E|---7--9-----7---|

[Verse 3]

      E             B                   C#m
I was breaking in a case of suds at the Brass Rail

  A                        B
A fall-down drunk with his tongue torn out

        E
And his balls removed

      E                 B
And I knew that my last lines were gone

       C#m         A
While, stupidly, I lingered on

        B                       E
Oh, but wise men know when it's time to go

       F#m
And so I should, too

[Chorus 3]

         C#m          A                B
And so I fly into the brightest winter sun

        C#m              A                B
Of this frozen town, I'm stripped down to move on

            F#m
My friends, I'm gone

[Transition] F#m G A [Verse 4]

      E         Esus4  E
Well, I hear my father fall

    E         Esus4  E
And I hear my mother call

    E             Esus4 E5/B  Esus4    E    B
And I hear the others all whispering, "Come home"

             E   Esus4   E
I'm sorry to go

                A
I loved you all so

    E                     B             E  Esus4  E
But this is the worst trip I've ever been on

[Verse 5]

   E                Esus4  E
So hoist up the John B. sail

   E            Esus4 E
See how the mainsail sets

    E                   Esus4 E5/B
I'm full in my heart and my head

           Esus4 E B
And I want to go home

                  E    Esus4    E
With a book in my hand

                 A
In the way I had planned

      E                     B                E  Esus4  E
Well, this is the worst trip I've ever been on

[Verse 6]

   E                Esus4  E
Hoist up the John B. sail

   E            Esus4 E
See how the mainsail sets

    E                   Esus4 E5/B
I'm full in my heart and my head

           Esus4 E B
And I want to go home

                    E    Esus4    E
With a book in each hand

                 A
In the way I had planned

      E                  B             E
Well, I feel so broke up, I want to go home