Patty Griffin – Goodbye (Ukulele)

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Try experimenting with your own endings, rather than aiming for fidelity to my meager attempt at translating the end. The performance on Flaming Red sort of dissolves in a way that's hard to mimic, especially with only one instrument. [Intro] G C G C G [Verse 1]
                         C    G
Occurred to me the other day

                              Em     D C
You've been gone now a couple years

                         G    Em
Well, I guess it takes while

                      D     C    G
For someone to really disappear

                       C    G
And I remember where I was

                         Em   D C
When the word came about you

                          G   Em
It was a day much like today

                          D       C
The sky was bright, and wide, and blue
[Chorus]
                       G
And I wonder where you are

           C                  D
And if the pain ends when you die

      C               Em
And I wonder if there was

     C                     D    G
Some better way to say goodbye
[Verse 2]
                          C     G
Today my heart is big and sore

                                     Em    D C
It's tryin' to push right through my skin

                 G     Em
Won't see you anymore

                       D       C   G
I guess that's finally sinkin' in

                               C    G
'Cause you can't make somebody see

                       Em   D C
With a simple word you say

                          G   Em
All their beauty from within

                    D      C
Sometimes they just look away
[Chorus]
                       G
And I wonder where you are

           C                  D
And if the pain ends when you die

      C               Em
And I wonder if there was

     C                     D
Some better way to say goodbye

     C                     D
Some better way to say goodbye-aha-ahaao-o-o

    C
o-o-o-ooohhh

    D
o-o-o-ooohhh

    C
o-o-o-ooohhh

    D
o-o-o-ooohhh

D     C     D
maaah waaah owuhhhh…