Artist: Okkervil River Song: Rider Album: I Am Very Far Tabbed by: Don Tago Email: [email protected] Standard Tuning: Chords used: EADGBe A: 002220 A2*:5542-- D: 000232 E: 022100 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Intro: D - A Verse 1 chords: D A D A D A Baby's ball all blood red like flayed of pigs and silk soft little things D A Fill a house hung from strings E D A And I fly out on my silver, scissoring wings E D A A2* With the other sardines over cities of things mommies need E D A Light as gas, and half-assedly free E D A Like I was in nineteen ninety three Verse 2 chords: D A D A D A Over the ruins like we're staggering apes, what we get is what we take E D A In a split open place where a man can get kinged E D A D A In a palace of panic and flames, where nobody gets blamed E D A By the tired, and broke down, and beat E D A Sunken gardens where there was a street Verse 3: use verse 1 chords West over water I rambled and paced and the blood river raced like the sweat down my face And the stadium roared, and the warriors embraced And the golden shore groaned beneath the weight of my tastes, and I blazed In the last orange hours of the day Until the dust hazed and hid us away Bridge: D A D A E Little baby, be brave, see dad riding over the rise D A D A E His whole cavalcade through the crowd watch them run on all sides Verse 4: use verse 1 chords And the neon white branches, and the carrion fly on a congressman's eye I have wrapped up for you in some old autumn leaves and left under a rock out on Rockaway Beach beneath the trees I have laughed my best hiss to the whistling breeze There's a hole in my throat, you can note my last wheeze if you need And then take hold of the rope down we scream
