From John's second album 'Map Or Direction'.
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Standard tuning - capo 5th fret
John plays drop D or DADGAD on this, but I'm using standard tuning here
Verse 1
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G /Gb /E D
Well I guess that I'd die with my friends at my side
C G /Gb /E D
Puzzled young faces just slipped a -way slowly
C G C G
I thought of the times I was drunk on the railway
/Gb Em A7 D
La - mented the time I was smashed in the square
Verse 2
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G /Gb G /Gb /E D
So around I did wander for to find my way home
C G /Gb /E D
On feet made of nothing it's har-der to roam
C G
I trooped up the coastline
C G
A walk on the moor
Em
Saw no big wide river
A7 D
No glorious faraway shore
Refrain 1
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G /Gb G /A /B
And every now and a-gain
C G /Gb /E D
I go into town just to see my old friends
C G
It's such an odd feeling
C G
Their eyes burn like embers
C G
Their minds are these forests
C G
Where thoughts fall as timber
Em A7
Be-fore I'm dragged a-way
C D G
Every now and a-gain
Inst
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G /Gb G /Gb /E D
C G /Gb /E D G
Verse 3
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G /Gb G /Gb /E D
Now I have no form I could climb in her spine
C G /Gb /E D
Her blood is like wine to a ghost drunk on sadness
C G
And time moves on slowly
C G
In time I'll for-give her
Em
Be-cause when she holds hands with him
A7 D
I know she's thinking of me
Refrain 2
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G /Gb G /A /B
And every now and a-gain
C G /Gb /E D
I like to i-magine and I like to pre-tend
C G C G
It's a glorious feeling I'll be re-membered
C G C G
For all my good deeds these eighteen De-cembers
Em A7
Be-fore I'm dragged a-way
C D G
Every now and a-gain
Change
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C B Em
Out-side of the book there is no resurrection
Am D G
The valley be-low threatens me with a home
C B Em
Heaven a-bove has no map or direction
C G C
When-ever you can cast a glance
G D
To the shadows for me
Refrain 3 | end
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G /Gb G /A /B
Yes I'll try without end
C G /Gb /E D
To seek others like me whom I might be -friend
C G C G
It drives like a madness there's no way to reach them
C G
You catch just a glimpse
C G
But you never can touch them
Em A7
Be-fore you’re dragged a-way
C D
Every now
C D
Every now
C D G
Every now and a-gain
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
August 2012
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