Nine Stories by mewithoutYou
Tabbed by John Eccleston
Standard Tuning
C#m A C#m B
C#m A
Half-mast land grants homesteading laws
C#m
Past Dodge Summit toward Athabasca Falls
B
Practicing our Avocets and Gnatcatcher calls
C#m A
I laid down my guns where the soldierfish swam
C#m
And slept inside the shoe of the world's tallest man
B
I saw Charlotte Corday with the knife in her hand. It was nothing new
C#m A
I've perched on Steele Dakota's sandhill crane
C#m
I flew among the Paiute before the Mormon rain
B
I was in Virginia City for the stringing up of Clubfoot Lane
But I've never seen anything like you
E A B
All untied, by and by!
B
But I'd pour the matrimony wine
E A B
All untied, by and by!
B E
So if you're ever so inclined
E
Oh you're ever so inclined
E
Oh you're ever so inclined
C#m A
While low in a lodgepole branch nearby
C#m
A lovesick Barnyard, an amorous eye
B
What unprecedented gift does this afternoon provide?
C#m A
What from the air now calls to water on the land?
C#m
What from my seclusion does this charlatan demand?
B
What to do now with my best-laid eremetic plans?
C#m A
I've been to the Arfaks where the Sicklebills fly
C#m
Seen Tangier's acrobatics nine stories high
B
I was there at Appomattox back in '65 when the General arrived, but I've never been in
this room before!
E A B
All untied, by and by!
B
That same old dream's trapped in my mind
E A B
All untied, by and by!
B
I'm bound in ropes and on the firing line
E A B
All untied, by and by!
B E
Well I wake up disappointed every time
B E
Well I wake up disappointed every time
B E
Well I wake up disappointed every time
B E
Well I wake up disappointed every time!
B Bm
And I wake up disappointed every time!
Bm F#
If the weather ever withers up your vine
Bm
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb
F#
If that old thorn is still buried in your side
Bm
Jacob knows a ladder you can climb
F#
Well if your pacific rivers all run dry
Bm
Their clouds will fill my loud corrupted sky
F#
And if the pleasures of your heavens ever end
Bm
That very ladder just as well descends
Bm F# repeat.