The Mountain Goats – Wild Sage (Ukulele)

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Hi, this is my first tab, so please don’t hate me if there are many mistakes in it… I find the tab to this song anywhere, so I wanted to give it a try myself. Any suggestions welcome.

G                                    A               C
I leave the house as soon as it gets light outside

                G
like a prisoner breaking out of jail.

                             A         C
and I steal down to business 15-501

                    G
like I had a bounty hunter on my tail.

             A
and somebody stops to pick me up,

       C
but he drops me off just down the block.

                  G    E               C            G
and along the highway        where the empty sprits breathed,

          D              G
wild sage growing in the weeds.

walked down the soft shoulder and I count my steps. heading vaguely eastward, sun in my eyes. and I lose my footing and I skin my hands, breaking my fall. and I laugh to myself and look up at the skies and then I think I hear angels in my ears like marbles being thrown against a mirror. and along the highway, where unlucky stray dogs bleed, wild sage growing in the weeds.

F                               G         F
  and some days I don't miss my family.

                G      F
and some days I do.

                               G                 E         C
and some days I think I'd feel better if I tried harder.

                          D
most days I know it's not true.

I lay down right where I fell, cold grass in my face. and I hear the traffic like the rhythm of the tides. and I stare at the scrape on the heel of my hand, 'til it doesn't sting so much, and until the blood's dried. and when somebody asks if I'm ok, I don't know what to say. and along the highway, from cast-off, innumerable seeds, wild sage growing in the weeds.