John Allyn Smith Sails

Tabbed by:  Jimbo

This little number is off their new 
album "The Stage Names”, which by 
the way could be
best album of 07

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E                      B
By the second verse, dear friends
C#m                     A
My head will burst, my life will end
B
So, I'd like to start this one off 
by saying
 E
"Live and love"
E                   B
I was young and at home in bed
       C#m                        
And I was hanging on the words some 
A
poem said
      B
And thirty-one
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I was impressionable
      F#m
I was upsettable

            C#m               A   
I tried to make my breathing stop,
                B
 my heart beat slow
            C#m                  A
So, when my mom and John came in, 
             B
I would be cold

(bridge)

   E                        B     
From a bridge on Washington 
    C#m       A
Avenue, the year of 1972
        B                          
Broke my bones and skull and it was
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 memorable
        E                     
It was half a second and I was 
  B
halfway down
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       C#m                     A  
Do you think I wanted to turn back
            B
 around and teach a class
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Where you kiss the ass that I've 
   F#
exposed to you


           C#m          A       B
And at the funeral, the University
             C#m        A         
Cried at three poems they'd 
               B
present in place of a broken me

(bridge)

      E             B
I was breaking in a case of suds
 C#m                A             
At the brass rail, a fall-down 
             B                     
drunk with his tongue torn out and 
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his balls removed
        E               B         
And I knew that my last lines were
            C#m         A
 gone while stupidly I lingered on,
      B
other wise men
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know when it's time to go
        F#m
And so I should, too

        C#m           A       
And so I fly into the brightest 
         B
winter sun
        C#m              A        
Of this frozen town, I'm stripped 
             B
down to move on
                F#m             A 
My friends, I'm gone
      B


      E
Well, I hear my father fall
    E
And I hear my mother call
    E                              
And I hear the others all whisper, 
      B
"Come home"

             E
I'm sorry to go
               A
I loved you all so
    E                     B       
But this is the worst trip I've 
         A
ever been on

   E
So, hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
  E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
 E                                 
I've folded my heart in my head and
            B
 I wanna go home
                   E
With a book in my hand
                  A
In the way I had planned
      E                      B    
Well, this is the worst trip I've 
          E
ever been on
E
Hoist up the John B. sail
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
E
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
E                                 
I've folded my heart in my head 
             B
and I wanna go home
                    E
With a book in each hand
(With a book in each hand)
                 A
In the way I had planned
(In the way I had planned)
  E                  B
I feel so broke up
           E
I wanna go home