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CHORDS USED IN THIS SONG:
LAm x02210
DO x32010
F: x03211 (See note)
SOL 320003
REm xx0231
REsus xx0233
LA x02220
RE xx0232
NOTE: For all of the F chords, he only plays the full chord (133211) when he says "In
eyes" for the second time. I've
marked it with a *. All the other F chords are played like this: x03211.
INTRO
*It's basically just chords, but I included all the picked notes too*
LAm DO FA
e|------0---------------1-----0-------0----|
B|-----1---------1------1---------1--------|
G|----2----------0---0--2-------2----------|
D|---2------2-0--2---0--3---3-------3------|
A|--0-------0----3---3---------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|
DO SOL REm REsus
e|--------0--------------1-----3-----3---3-------|
B|--------1-----0---0-0--3-----3-----3---3-------|
G|-----0----0---0---0-0--2---2-2-------2---2-----|
D|--0--2----2-0-0---0-0--0---0-0-------0---0-----|
A|--3--3----3-2-2--------------------------------|
E|--------------3--------------------------------|
FIRST VERSE:
LAm DO FA DO SOL REm REsus REm
A black sheep boy revolves over canyons and waterfalls.
LAm DO FA DO SOL
REm REsus
A black sheep boy dissolves in syringe or in shower stall.
FIRST CHORUS:
REm
He says
DO SOL REm FA
“there’s plenty of time to make you mine tonight,
DO SOL REm
there’s plenty of time to make you mine.”
He says
DO SOL REm
“there’s plenty of ways to know you’re not dying,
FA
all right.
DO SOL REm
Hell, there’s plenty of light still left in your eyes.”
FA
In your eyes.
FIRST PRE-VERSE:
LAm DO FA DO SOL REm
SECOND VERSE:
LAm DO FA DO
A black sheep boy grows horns,
SOL REm
breathing smoke through his microphone.
LAm DO FA DO
REm
The airwaves stretch and they groan, bleeding, birthing his black diapason.
SECOND CHORUS:
He says
DO SOL REm FA
“there’s plenty of things to wear when you come to me,
DO SOL REm
every color of sleeve to be rolled.
DO SOL REm FA
There are millions of rolling eyes that still cling to me.
DO SOL REm
Every language of king is concerned.
BRIDGE:
LAm
So why
REm
did you bawl
SOL RE LA
from the spell of some old holy song
SOL RE LA
that some liar laughed as he composed,
SOL RE LA
some liar I loved to control?”
SECOND PRE-VERSE:
*I included both the chords and the faint guitar in the background*
LAm DO FA DO SOL
REsus
e|-------------1--1---1----|--0-----------1---1---1-3----3-3--|
B|-------------1--1---1----|----3-1-0-----3---3---3-3----3-3--|
G|-------------2----2---2--|----------2-0-2-----2---2----2-2--|
D|---------0-2-3----3---3--|--------------0-----0--------0-0--|
A|--0--2-3-----------------|----------------------------------|
E|-------------------------|----------------------------------|
LAm DO FA DO SOL
REsus
e|-------------1--1---1----|--0---------------1---1-3--|
B|-------------1--1---1----|----3-1-0---------3---3-3--|
G|-------------2----2---2--|----------2-0-2-----2---2--|
D|---------0-2-3----3---3--|--------------------0---0--|
A|--0--2-3-----------------|---------------------------|
E|-------------------------|---------------------------|
THIRD VERSE:
*For the first 4 lines there's no guitar, but the bass copies the notes the guitar would
playing*
LAm DO FA LAm
A black sheep boy dissolves
DO FA LAm
in hot cream, in sweet moans,
DO FA LAm
in each dead bed and empty home,
DO FA LAm
in each seething bacterium.
DO FA
Killing softly and serial,
DO SOL REm
he lifts his head, handsome, horned, magisterial.
DO SOL REm
He's the smell of the moonlight wisteria.
DO SOL REm
He’s the thrill of the abecedarian.
DO SOL REm
(See the muddy hoofprints where he carried yo
THIRD CHORUS:
DO SOL REm FA
And there’s plenty of ways to claim his crimes tonight,
DO SOL REm
and there’s plenty of things to do on his dime.
DO SOL REm FA
And there’s plenty of ways to wear his hide tonight.
DO SOL REm
You’ve got yours and I’ve got mine.
DO SOL REm
You’ve got yours and I’ve got mine.
OUTRO:
REm
So why
LAm
did you flee?
SOL RE LA
Don’t you know you can’t leave his control
SOL RE LA
only call all his wild works your own?
SOL RE LA
So come back and we’ll take them all on.
SOL RE LA
So come back to your life on the lam.
SOL RE LA
So come back to your old black sheep man.
He says
SOL RE LA
“I am waiting on hoof and on hand.
SOL RE LA
I am waiting, all hated and damned.
SOL RE LA
I am waiting, I snort and I stamp.
SOL RE LA RE
I am waiting, you know that I am,
SOL RE LA
calmly waiting to make you my lamb”
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