Biography:
Justin Rutledge (born January 3, 1979) is a Toronto-based alt-country singer-songwriter signed to Six Shooter Records.
www.justinrutledge.com
Rutledge has released three albums, No Never Alone, The Devil on a Bench in Stanley Park and Man Descending. His fourth album, entitled, "The Early Widows" was released in May 2010 on Six Shooter Records.
Rutledge's musical style is often compared to that of American alt-country singer Ryan Adams. His influences
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Notes:
-For the G, leave strings B and e open
-There's a lot of hammer-ons there you can improvise with, along with many other
random pull-off, pickings and improvisations.
-In the chorus, he hammers on the F# to progress up and down to the next chord;
it's not an actual F#/Em or Em/F# chord really.
Intro:
G - Bm - C - G x2
G Bm
I am a fly on the wall of a house where the
C G
windows are always broken
G Bm
I am a pause in a storm on a dark step
C G
whenever your name is spoken
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be the coward or the kiss
D G
be a man about this
G Bm
and somewhere the salt in the air of a season
C
that tattoos the head of an island
G
so northern
G Bm
and some air is knitting the day for a woman
C
whose eyes are upon the horizon
G
boy
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be the boredom or the bliss
D G
be a man about this
Play verse chords
G Am
be the number or the name
Am C
be the picture or the frame
C Em
be the shoulder or the shame
Em D
be the moth or her flame
G Bm
I am the birth of a dawn through the curtains
C G
the hurt of a dawn through a curtain
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
D G
be a man about this
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
D G
be a man about this
G C D
be the coward or the kiss
Em F#m G B7 C
be the bliss
C Em F#m G B7 C
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
G
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDscl6zJ0uE
Notes:
-For the G, leave strings B and e open
-There's a lot of hammer-ons there you can improvise with, along with many other
random pull-off, pickings and improvisations.
-In the chorus, he hammers on the F# to progress up and down to the next chord;
it's not an actual F#/Em or Em/F# chord really.
Intro:
G - Bm - C - G x2
G Bm
I am a fly on the wall of a house where the
C G
windows are always broken
G Bm
I am a pause in a storm on a dark step
C G
whenever your name is spoken
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be the coward or the kiss
D G
be a man about this
G Bm
and somewhere the salt in the air of a season
C
that tattoos the head of an island
G
so northern
G Bm
and some air is knitting the day for a woman
C
whose eyes are upon the horizon
G
boy
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be the boredom or the bliss
D G
be a man about this
Play verse chords
G Am
be the number or the name
Am C
be the picture or the frame
C Em
be the shoulder or the shame
Em D
be the moth or her flame
G Bm
I am the birth of a dawn through the curtains
C G
the hurt of a dawn through a curtain
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
D G
be a man about this
G F#/Em Em
be a man about this
Em/F# G
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
D G
be a man about this
G C D
be the coward or the kiss
Em F#m G B7 C
be the bliss
C Em F#m G B7 C
be a man about this
C
be a man about this
G
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