The Weakerthans – My Favourite Chords (Ukulele)

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G
They're tearing up streets again

C
They're building a new hotel

D7                                                D
The Mayor's out killing kids to keep taxes down

G
and me and my anger

C
sit folding a paper bird

D7                                                D
letting the curtains turn to beating wings

C
Wish I had a socket-set

G                         Gm
to dismantle this morning

G
And just one pair of clean socks

D7
And a photo of you

G
When you get off work tonight

C
meet me at the construction site

D7                                                D
and we'll write some notes to tape to the heavy machines

G
like We hope they treat you well

C
Hope you don't work too hard

D7                                                D
We hope you get to be happy sometimes

C
Bring your swiss-army knife

G                      Gm
and a bottle of something

G
and I'll bring some spraypaint

D7
and a new deck of cards

G
Hey I found the safest place

C
to keep all our tenderness

D7                                                D
Keep all those bad ideas Keep all our hope

G
It's here in the smallest bones

C
the feet and the inner-ear

D7                                                D
It's such an enormous thing to walk and to listen

C
I'd like to fall asleep

G                         Gm
to the beat of you breathing

G                                        D7
in a room near a truckstop on a highway somewhere

G
You are a radio

C
You are an open door

D7                                                D
I am a faulty string of blue christmas lights

G
You swim through frequencies

C
You let that stranger in

D7                                                D
as I'm blinking off and on and off again

C
We've got a lot of time

G                   Gm
Or maybe we don't

G                                  D7
but I'd like to think so so let me pretend

G
These are my favourite chords

C
I know you like them too

D7                                                D
When I get a new guitar you could have this one

G
And sing me a lullaby

C
Sing me the alphabet

D7                                                D
Sing me a story I haven't heard yet