12 Haunted Episodes

pre>capo at 3 /c /b etc mean passing bass notes

G c /c /b
I wonder what you are thinkin'
Am7
Under the rooftops there
D
Pullin' tangles from your hair
G c /c /b
I wonder if the water you're drinkin'
Am7
Comes from a purer stream
D
The one where sunlight gleams
Bm am7
Things round here don't get any clearer
Bm am7 d
Stuff that once seemed in reach is not any nearer


I wonder if that house is still standin' or did they knock it flat
Well that's progress that's that i wonder who was more demanding
We were just young i guess neither would settle for less
Still it's not a whole life story is it
It's just a page i turned and there you were in it

I wonder how you are farin' not sliding down a slope
Takin' the knocks i hope
I wonder where your eyes are starin'
Not into some emptiness into someone's i guess
But that still won't make things any clearer
People seem to drift apart instead of getting nearer

I wonder what you are doin' under the evening sky
Watchin' your life go by
I wonder if that place is in ruins and all the doors are closed
That's just the way it goes
I wonder what there is worth keepin' from haunted episodes
That briefly woke us from sleepin' /pre>

pre>c dm7 c f c
I can feel it in the air i can smell you everywhere
C dm7 c f c
I don't know if you're receptive so l will play the love detective
C
Cos when the bees buzz in the apple blossoms
Dm7 f
They don't think about their fate
C f
Wake up now don't hibernate
C f
The birds are singin' on the garden gate
C f
The fruit is sweet upon your plate
C f c f
Come on baby don't berate me let me in you know you sate me
Dm7 c
When we pollinate

Let me know your fickle heart i only wanna play my part
And we will be resurrected and in the sweetest way infected
And when the bees buzz in the cherry blossoms
They don't analyse their fate
Don't think i'm a degenerate
If i want to consummate
People think i'm filled with hate
They've got it wrong that's out of date i only live to be your mate
Baby let's pollinate

I stood beneath your balcony i unleashed a symphony
Juliet was not at home she took a train and went to rome
But i will follow anyway and try not to be late
My ticket will not terminate
While the birds are singing on the garden gate
And the fruit is sweet upon your plate
Come on baby don't berate me you must know you fascinate me
When we pollinate

Don't think i'm a degenerate if i want to consummate
Baby i'm not filled with hate
That's all wrong that's out of date
I only live for that perfect state
When we pollinate /pre>

pre>this is reported to be played with open tuning but what tuning
Exactly i don't know. i have created a simple version which
Gets me by. it involves sliding the cadd 9 up but leaving
The other strings open. in the chorus there is a flourish
Which i play as em9 054030 and em7(2) 050430 to get back
To the g

Intro: g repeated to get the rhythm

G
From china to chinatown new york to tokyo
030010 050030
C cadd9 em7
Upstate to down island from here to there

From the backyard to the wide wide open spaces
From the steel mills to the wind in your hair
From the claustrophobic beat of my heart
To the openness of your smile
We're in this together going the distance
Right down to the last mile

Chorus
G
Cos you're my partner you are my partner
C em9 em7 em9
You're my partner for life

(twice, then twice with just chords)

Up the coast of africa to the straits of gibraltar
Through that tunnel where the birds migrate
In a hotel room without running water
And all the clocks are running one hour late
And on the wall are paintings of couples intertwined
Locked in embraces as if fighting for their lives
And the warm night air breathes through the open window
And husbands cling to their wives

Chorus repeat

Bridge
050050
Em7(3) em7
Well i know i know i know
030010 030030
C cadd9 cadd9(2)
Why it just has to be just has to be

Well l know l know l know why
I'm with you and baby you're with me

Let's get out of here and drive up to the ocean
Out of the city and up the coast of maine
Feel the spray and the ancient motion
Watch the children in the sand watch them play
From the backyard to the wide wide open spaces
From the pounding of the surf
To the gentleness of your smile
We're in this together going the distance
Right down to the last mile

Chorus repeat /pre>

pre>i can take those riff raff
And get them out of your hair
Clean up your doorstep and polish your chair
I could move your house slightly to the left
Squeeze you till you're breathless
Then breathe you full of breath
I can give the zulu's a point to their spears
I can give the lechers a reason for their leers
I can give the angels a need to be alive
I can get the bees a buzzin' in their hive

Chorus
I can get you flyin' baby higher than a kite
You know i can oh baby i can
I would stop my cryin' if you'd only let me
Be your loverman

The people that you hang with
Well you know they're not my style
I'd like to sort of kill them at least for a short while
They treat me like a lackey they call me a yob
They made me build their outhouse
Though they know that ain't my job
I know i seem edgy but that's because i'm sharp
I know i could pluck you like the strings of a harp
I know i seem jumpy but it's not amphetamine
It's just that certain parts of me are gettin' out of line

Chorus
I could press your buttons i can fly you like a kite
You know i can, oh baby i can
I could be a glutton for you
If you let me be your loverman

I know you don 't think much of me
But these jerks you're attracted to
I'll make 'em look like monkeys hangin' up in the zoo
Cos i could charm the birds right out of the sky
At least if they were flightless and couldn't really fly
Did i tell you i was lucky did i tell you i was charmed
Did i tell you you'd look perfect hangin' on my arm
Did i tell you i had money in a safe deposit
Did i tell you last night i found elvis hangin' up in my closet
Well maybe i'm borin' you it looks like you're bored
Well it hurts to be crucified but it's worse to be ignored

Repeat 1st chorus /pre>

pre>capo at 4 intro: e a e a

Verse
A amaj7 d a
I knew virginia once she was a pretty girl
D a d e
She walked in the wild fields and swam the wild streams
A amaj7 d a
I took her out one day to the civil war battlefield
D a d e
Way down in manassas where i told her my dreams

Chorus
A amaj7 d a
But now it's disney's america a long way from anywhere
D a d e
With a brand new coat to wear with a brand name on the seams
A amaj7 d a
Just disney's america virginia she chose to stay
D a e a
And we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay

Verse
Then i had a family virginia, i guess she forgot about me
She lives near the concrete sea or so people say
I don't remember much about her gentle touch
My skin just turned so hard and my feet turned to clay

Chorus
It was in disney's america a long long way from anywhere
You get what you pay for there man you get it in spades
Just disney's america virginia she chose to stay
And we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay

Bridge
D f#m a e
You can't get too excited you can't get too enthused
D f#m a e
From dismal land to the tragic mountain we are not amused

Yeah i knew virginia once she, she was a pretty thing
She walked in the wild fields and swam in the wild streams

Chorus
But now it's disney's america that's where we collect our pay
Where we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay
A
Yeah we drifted apart like runoff into the chesapeake bay

Amaj7 d a e a /pre>

pre>surupa nile <grovecenter@saber.net> wrote with some corrections
For this one. it is played inm open tuning (how i don't know)
But surupa worked out that the weird chord was adim/e 0x1212
Based on what surupa said the chords were this is my version.

C c
Can you crawl out of the darkness of that dungeon where you're hangin'
F c
Can you dismantle the cross you've had to bear
C c
Can you prize the lid right open on all that fancy footwork
F g
And set fire to the shoes you've had to wear
C adim/e
Just because the mud's there doesn't mean you have to wallow
F c
Doesn't mean you have to be hollow in the head
C adim/e
And just because your mouth's full doesn't mean you have to swallow
F g
Doesn't mean you have to believe what you just said

Chorus
C adim/e
You should see yourself baby you lack vision
F c
You should see yourself get a pair of eyes
C adim/e
You should see yourself go to your optician
F c
You should see yourself through that framework of lies
C f c c f c
See yourself see yourself

Can you find that little dictator that's living in your basement
Can you stage a coup to take that idiot out
Can you organise your senses as if they were an army
And march them off to off that little lout
Just because you're english doesn't mean you have to be narrow
Doesn't mean you have to be shallow and uptight
Just because you're pale it doesn't mean you have to be callow
Doesn't mean you have to believe you're always right

Chorus
You should see yourself baby you lack vision
You should see yourself through the eyes of the world
You should see yourself and your clockwork ambition
You should see yourself or would you rather go blind
See yourself see yourself

Can you take this little megaphone and push it in your eardrum
Can you try to listen very carefully
Can you stare up at that wall chart and look at those red letters
Can you try to read them through from a to z
Just because it's funny doesn't mean you have to be foolish
Doesn't mean you have to wish you ruled this world
And just because it's sunny
Doesn't mean you have to blot the sun out
Doesn't mean your lips always have to curl

Repeat 1st chorus

Chorus
You should see yourself everybody else can
You should see yourself it's not a pretty sight
You should see yourself through those crocodile tear glands
You should see yourself or would you rather go blind
See yourself see yourself /pre>