The Weakerthans – Reconstruction Site (Guitar Live)

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Artist: The Weakerthans, John K. Sampson Song: Reconstruction Site Album: Reconstruction Site All chords relative to Capo After much searching I finally found a full video of him playing the song, The chord shapes flow very naturally in both the [verse] and [chorus] You'll keep your ring finger, and pinky on these notes throughout the verse/refrain and move around with your index finger depending on the root/chord.
e|---------------|
B|---------------|
G|------4--------|
D|------4--------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|

        Esus2          A(6)9             B5
e|---------------|----------------|----------------|
B|----------0----|----------2-----|----------0-----|
G|----------4----|----------4-----|----------4-----|
D|----------4----|----------4-----|----------4-----|
A|----------2----|---0--0---0-----|---2--2---2-----|
E|---0--0---0----|----------------|----------------|
^This brief tab portion is a way of showing how the verse chords are strummed/accented. We will always be accenting the root notes during the verses which are E, A, B, for their respective chord shapes. Understanding this will help with the chord changes as you play [Verse and Refrain] Esus2: 024400 A(6)9: x04420 B5: x2440x [Chorus] C#m7 x42450 Asus2 x02450 F# 244xxx E 022100 B5 x2440x [Verse 1] E A B x4
   E                       A   B
 Well, I'm lost, I'm a frayed rope tying down a leaky boat

         E                   A                       B
 To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing

       E            A          B
 If I'm more then it means less, last call for happiness

             E                        A                         B
 I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing

       E            A       B
 I'm a float in a summer parade

                           E             A      B
 Up the street in the town that you were born in

        E           A              B
 With a girl at the top wearing tulle

                      E     A                  B
 And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen
[Chorus 1]
 C#m7                             Asus2
   Well beauty's just another word I'm never certain how to spell

 F#                              E
   Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on

 C#m7                       Asus2
   And throw away my misery, it never meant that much to me

  B5
   It never sent a get-well card
[Verse 2] E A B x2
       E             A      B
 And I broke like a bad joke somebody's uncle told

        E             A       B
 At a wedding reception in 1972

                E            A                         B
 Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair

      E                     A                   B
 Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
[Refrain] (hold chords through this portion)
         E                       A                    B
 And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home

         E                       A                    B
 And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home

         E                A                   B
 And he thought about how everyone dies someday

      E                      A                     B
 And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be?

 E                      A                   B
 And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat
[Chorus 2]
C#m7                       Asus2                           F#
  Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline

                                E
  And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms

C#m7                          Asus2
  And disassembles my despair, it never took me anywhere

 B5
 It never once bought me a drink