Down From Above

Intro:Am (4 bars)

(Verse)
Am          Dm       Am          
Your mother made you cry when she
 F         G        Dm
 told you about the womb

G       E      Am
And how people die.

Am                 Dm        
Watching over you when you were 
    Am    F         G
young smiling as you learned

Dm         G         E           
to crawl.  You don?t know her at 
Am
all.


(Chorus)
Am     F     C               E  
It?s a dirty job but they?re very 
  Am
suave

      F       C           
Jesus high on wine drinking 
  E     Am
turpentine


(Verse)
Am                    Dm   
Daddy?s voice like an intercom 
Am      F        G        Dm
connected to a hidden room

G           E     Am
Were yellow roses bloom

Am                   Dm     Am  
A sacred mountain near 
         F
Peterborough where clouds paint a

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G          Dm             E     
picture so calm that they 
    Am
swallowed mom.


(Chorus)
Am     F     C               E  
It?s a dirty job but they?re very 
  Am
suave

      F       C          
Jesus high on wine weeping 
  E     Dm
turpentine

Dm                           Am
What are they doing in there?  Have 
they got guns?


         F          C        Dm
Make you run up and down the same 
hill

E                      Am
And they?ll break your will.


(Guitar solo)-repeat verse section 
2x


(Verse)
Am               Dm           Am
Was it Christmas or groundhog 
            F
day when your friends turned

   G   Dm  G        E       
to shadows and they dragged you 
     Am
away.

Am               Dm          Am  
Tell nobody that you?ve been here
 F              G
 don?t breath a word that?s

     Dm                 
been said. Now there?s a 
 G                   E       Am
scar(whispered)upon your forehead.


(Chorus)
Am     F     C               E  
It?s a dirty job but they?re very 
  Am
suave

      F       C          
Jesus high on wine weeping 
  E     Dm
turpentine

Dm                           Am
What are they doing in there?  Have 
they got guns?

Dm                  Am           
Whether Mt. Pinutubo or the 
           E
threat of God?s love

         F         C              
There?ll always be something 
  Dm
that?s raining

E         Am
Down from above (4x total)

E         Am
Na na na na na na (fade to end)