The Mountain Goats – Fall Of The Star High School Running Back (Guitar)

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Sophomore year,   

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you rushed for an average of eight and a third yards per carry.

G                   A
  All eyes were on you.

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Junior year, 

   D           Em             G           A
you blew your knee out at an out of town game.

G                       A
   Nowhere to go to but down, down, down.

D                                G           
Nothing but the ground left for you to fall to.

     D   A   G   G  
by July, 

       D          Em         G         A
you'd made a whole bunch of brand new friends,

G                        A
people you used to look down on.

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And you'd figured out    a way to make real money --

       D            Em              G       A
givin' ends to your friends, and it felt stupendous.

G                      A
 chrome spokes on your Japanese bike,

      Bb                A
but selling acid was a bad idea,

      D                        G
and selling it to a cop was a worse one.

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And the new law said that seventeen year olds could do federal time.

G                               D                  G
  you were the first one, so I sing this song for you,

D                     G     
  William Stanaforth Donahue,

       D                        A
your grandfather rode the boat over from Ireland,

     D                G
but you made a bad decision or two.

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yeah.