Uncle Tupelo was an alternative country music group from Belleville, Illinois, active between 1987 and 1994. Jay Farrar, Jeff Tweedy, and Mike Heidorn formed the band after the lead singer of their previous band, The Primitives, left to attend college. The trio recorded three albums for Rockville Records, before signing with Sire Records and expanding to a five-piece. Shortly after the release of the band's major label debut album Anodyne, Farrar
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Subject: TAB: Black Eye (correct version) by Uncle Tupelo Date: Thu, 25 Jul 96 17:35:46 -0500 From: Jim
Black Eye by Uncle Tupelo Transcribed by John Erlinger ([email protected])
Written by Farrar/Tweedy (Warner-Tamerlane Pub./Feedhorn Songs) >From the Rockville Records album "March 16-20 1992" (ROCK6090-2)
(capo 5th fret)
EmG He had a black eye C He was proud of G Like some of his friends DEm It made him feel somewhere outside Em/DCC/GDG Of everything and everywhere he'd been
Like his brothers He emptied himself And played it safe Like their father He wanted to remember But he almost always Forgot what he was gonna say
DEmEm/DCD Black eye G Black eye
When he realized That this one was here to stay He took down All the mirrors in the hallway And thought only of his younger face
Black eye Black eye
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