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Fellow Traveller

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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Verse Pre-Chorus Chorus Bridge Outro
---------- ---------- ------------ ---------- ------------
E 0221xx F# 244xxx A/C# x4222x F# 244xxx A x022xx
C# x466xx A x022xx B/D# x6444x G# 466xxx B x244xx
B x244xx E 0221xx E 02210x A x022xx G# 466xxx
A x022xx B x244xx A x0222x B x244xx B/D# x644xx
B x2444x E 0221xx

Capo 1st fret

[Verse 1]
E
Rain for the last day that I will be known
C# B A
The way that I want them to know me
E
Rain for reporters' predictable leads
C# B A
On the darkening stain of my name

[Pre-Chorus 1]
F# A E B
Rain like the morning you left with the international brigade
F# A E
A streak of your face at the glass when the train pulled away

[Chorus 1]
A/C# B/D# E A
The aspidistra that refused to die
A/C# B/D# E A
A miniature camera in a Cambridge tie
A B E A
To get that Soviet control to crack a smile
A B E
All in our file, my fellow traveller

E F# G# F# E F# G# F# F# F# A
e|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
D|--2---4---6-6-4--|--2---4---6-6-4--|--4-4---4-4-4--|--4/7-7---7-7-7--|x2
A|--2---4---6-6-4--|--2---4---6-6-4--|--4-4---4-4-4--|--4/7-7---7-7-7--|
E|--0---2---4-4-2--|--0---2---4-4-2--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh

[Verse 2]
E
Sleep for the telephone's silent receiver
C# B A
On its beetle-black back in the hall
E
Sleep for the bottle that rolled off my desk
C# B A
Danced itself out on the floor

[Pre-Chorus 2]
F# A E B
Sleep for the overturned ashtray splayed across an unmade bed
F# A E
While I interrogate every word that I ever said

[Chorus 2]
A/C# B/D# E A
I fall from buildings into angry air
A/C# B/D# E A
Lecture my students in my underwear
A B E A
But once I was allowed to dream of you instead
A B E
My dear defected fellow traveller

E F# G# F# E F# G# F# F# F# A
e|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
B|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
G|-----------------|-----------------|---------------|-----------------|
D|--2---4---6-6-4--|--2---4---6-6-4--|--4-4---4-4-4--|--4/7-7---7-7-7--|
A|--2---4---6-6-4--|--2---4---6-6-4--|--4-4---4-4-4--|--4/7-7---7-7-7--|
E|--0---2---4-4-2--|--0---2---4-4-2--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh

[Bridge]
F#
How you booked your final passage
G#
With a passport that you paid for with a pair of roller skates
A
How you dyed your hair and mustache
B
Put on a mid-Atlantic accent but you couldn't stop the shakes

F#
When they asked where you had come from
G#
And you muttered, "That's a good one"
A
Though you were never really certain

[Chorus 3]
A/C# B/D# E A
Every umbrella down on Portman Square
A/C# B/D# E A
Opens and closes to arraign our fair
A B E A
Theory of something I can't picture anymore
A B F# G#
A forgery for my fellow traveller

[Outro]
A B
I won't wait to see
G# B/D#
I still I believe in you and me
E
My fellow traveller