Bullets – Passenger
From the LP Whispers - 2014
G 320033
C x32010
Cadd9 x32033
Em 022000
Em7 022033
D xx0232
F# 2xxxxx
The time signature of this piece switches from 4/4 to 2/4.
I have marked out the beats for the two patterns.
The second bridge is a combination of the two patterns.
P1 - Pattern 1 – Bars with Cadd9 are 2/4
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|G |Cadd9 |G | F#|Em7 |Cadd9 |G | |
P2 - Pattern 2 – Bars with D are 2/4
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|C G |D |Em |Em |
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CAPO 1
[INTRO – P1]
G Cadd9 G F# Em7 Cadd9 G x2
[VERSE 1 - P1]
G Cadd9 G F#
Oh Well he’s been collecting since the age of nine
Em7 Cadd9 G
Every shiny bullet that he could find
G Cadd9 G F#
Built himself a house with the wooden floors
Em7 Cadd9 G
Put the shiny bullets in a chest of drawers
[VERSE 2 – P1]
G Cadd9 G
Well his wifes long gone and the kids have grown
F# Em7 Cadd9 G
And trees they fall down on their own
G Cadd9 G
Memories fade like an old slideshow
F# Em7 Cadd9 G
But the bullets still shine like coins in the snow
[VERSE 3 – P2]
C G D Em
Well one day took himself into town
C G D Em
The men with a truck well they came around
C G D Em
They took the television and the gun from the war
C G D G
Oh and almost every bullet from the chest of drawers
[BRIDGE 1 – P1] [Harmonica Solo]
G Cadd9 G F# Em7 Cadd9 G
Oh Oh Oh----Oh
[VERSE 4 – P1]
G Cadd9 G F#
Well he came back home and found the house in a mess
Em7 Cadd9 G
Run into the bedroom and the old brown chest
G Cadd9 G
Well he didn’t care much for the V – C - R
F# Em7 Cadd9 G
But he cried for the space where the bullets were
[VERSE 5 – P2]
C G D Em
Well the men took the truck down into town
C G D Em
And they sold all the silver they had found
C G D Em
But they couldn’t sell the bullets cos they weren’t live rounds
C G D G
So they dug a big hole put the bullets in the ground
[BRIDGE 2 – P1] [Harmonica and Trumpet Solo]
G Cadd9 G F# Em7 Cadd9 G
Oh Oh Oh-----Oh
[BRIDGE 2 - P2]
C G D Em Em C G D G
[VERSE 6 – P2] [PLAYED SLOWLY]
C G D Em
Well he doesn’t leave the house much anymore
C G D Em
Cos the men are gonna come like they did before
C G D Em
And he’ll hold onto the three or four
C G D Em
Bullets that they left in the chest of drawers
C G D G
yeah the bullets that they left in the chest of drawers
