Biography:
John K. Samson is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He used to play the bass in the band Propagandhi, and is now the singer & guitarist in The Weakerthans. In 1993 he released a 15 track cassette called Slips and Tangles on Fresh Bread Records. Some of those songs were also on a split CD with the band Painted Thin. In addition to The Weakerthans he has a project with his wife, Christine Fellows, called The Subscription, and he pronounces it like "sore-ee."
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Other songs:
- 17Th St Treatment Centre
- Alpha Adept
- Capital
- Carrie Ends The Call
- Cruise Night
- Fellow Traveller
- Grace General
- Heart Of The Continent
- Highway 1 East
- Highway 1 West
- Letter In Icelandic From The Ninette San
- Longitudinal Centre
- Oldest Oak At Brookside
- Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
- Postdoc Blues
- Prayer For Ruby Elm
- Provincial
- Requests
- Select All Delete
- Stop Error
- Taps Reversed
- The Last And
- Vampire Alberta Blues
- Virtute At Rest
- Vpw 13 Blues
- When I Write My Masters Thesis
- Winter Wheat
- Www Dot Ipetitions Dot Com Slash Petition Slash Rivertonrifle Slash
Four years of hard work!This month of May we celebrated four years on the air. We continue working on the dissemination of this wonderful instrument, thank you for participating in our story!
Verse:
D/F# D/G D/A G A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
e|---------------------------|-------------------------------|
B|---------------------------|-------------------------------|
G|------------------------4--|-------------------------------|
D|----0------0------0-----5--|----7-----5-----0-----0-----0--|x2
A|--9-----10-----12----------|----7-----5---9-----7-----9----|
E|----------------------3----|--9-----7----------------------|
Chorus:
G A D/F# G5 A5 Bm9 Bm7 G A D/F# D/E D/F#
e|-------------|-------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
B|-------------|-------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
G|-------------|-------------|----------6-----7--|--4----6---------------------|
D|----0-----0--|----4-----5--|----7-----7-----7--|--5----7------0-----0-----0--|
A|----2----/4--|----5-----5--|----7--------------|--x----x----9-----7-----9----|
E|--3----/5----|--2-----3----|--5-----7-----7----|--3----5---------------------|
[Verse 1]
D/F# D/G D/A G
You'll recall from the sagas I hope Grettir's last stand at Drangey
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
How his grip on the sword made his enemies cut off his hand
D/F# D/G D/A G
If he'd fled here instead and had tasted this terrible coffee
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
Or read these letters you sent, he'd surrender and lay the blade down
[Chorus 1]
G A
And it's Halloween
D/F# G5
Skinny ghosts dress like cowboys and rest
A5 Bm9
At the railing by my door
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
On their way from the children's ward
[Verse 2]
D/F# D/G D/A G
Bev Monroe and his Pembina Valley boys play at the party
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
And I practice my English on nurses, "Oh, that's a nice name"
D/F# D/G D/A G
And they may ask for mine, but the burns on my back from the x-rays
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
Say I shouldn't show anyone anything ever again
[Chorus 2]
G A
In another year
D/F# G5
I'll be buried or shivering here
A5 Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
Coughing at that grey spittoon
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
Painted orange by the harvest moon
[Interlude]
D/F# D/G D/A G
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
[Chorus 3]
G A
Pack up mother's clothes
D/F# G5
Drive her down to the new Betel Home
A5 Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
Sell the boat to Arnison
D/E G A Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
And then go, stand up straight in the place you're longing for
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
And don't write to me anymore
D/F# D/G D/A G A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
e|---------------------------|-------------------------------|
B|---------------------------|-------------------------------|
G|------------------------4--|-------------------------------|
D|----0------0------0-----5--|----7-----5-----0-----0-----0--|x2
A|--9-----10-----12----------|----7-----5---9-----7-----9----|
E|----------------------3----|--9-----7----------------------|
Chorus:
G A D/F# G5 A5 Bm9 Bm7 G A D/F# D/E D/F#
e|-------------|-------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
B|-------------|-------------|-------------------|-----------------------------|
G|-------------|-------------|----------6-----7--|--4----6---------------------|
D|----0-----0--|----4-----5--|----7-----7-----7--|--5----7------0-----0-----0--|
A|----2----/4--|----5-----5--|----7--------------|--x----x----9-----7-----9----|
E|--3----/5----|--2-----3----|--5-----7-----7----|--3----5---------------------|
[Verse 1]
D/F# D/G D/A G
You'll recall from the sagas I hope Grettir's last stand at Drangey
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
How his grip on the sword made his enemies cut off his hand
D/F# D/G D/A G
If he'd fled here instead and had tasted this terrible coffee
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
Or read these letters you sent, he'd surrender and lay the blade down
[Chorus 1]
G A
And it's Halloween
D/F# G5
Skinny ghosts dress like cowboys and rest
A5 Bm9
At the railing by my door
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
On their way from the children's ward
[Verse 2]
D/F# D/G D/A G
Bev Monroe and his Pembina Valley boys play at the party
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
And I practice my English on nurses, "Oh, that's a nice name"
D/F# D/G D/A G
And they may ask for mine, but the burns on my back from the x-rays
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
Say I shouldn't show anyone anything ever again
[Chorus 2]
G A
In another year
D/F# G5
I'll be buried or shivering here
A5 Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
Coughing at that grey spittoon
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
Painted orange by the harvest moon
[Interlude]
D/F# D/G D/A G
A/C# G/B D/F# D/E D/F#
[Chorus 3]
G A
Pack up mother's clothes
D/F# G5
Drive her down to the new Betel Home
A5 Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
Sell the boat to Arnison
D/E G A Bm9 Bm7 Bm9 Bm7
And then go, stand up straight in the place you're longing for
G A D/F# D/E D/F#
And don't write to me anymore
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