Why and why we wonder now
Why it is you said you’re coming down
Oh, you’re right, you said you didn’t know
Oh, you’re right, you said you’re bringing me down, by two

[GCGCGCG]

Why and why and why we’re left wondering
Where’s the love you said, my dying friend?
Oh, you’re right, you said you didn’t know
Oh, you’re right, you said you’re bringing me down, by two

Oh, you’re right, you said you didn’t know
Oh, you’re right, you said you’re bringing me down, by two

Actually intro played with a ukuley…

Intro: Am E C x4

Verse:

Well I’ll write it all down for you

Bitter tea, bitter tune, bitter you

well you sow what you sow what you say

Still you killed her when you came

Interlude chords:

Am E C-Variations

e–0–0—–3—1—0—-3—1—0—|
h–1–0—–1—0—1—-1—0—1—|
g–2–1—–0—0—0—-0—0—0—|
d–2–2—–2—2—2—-2—2—2—|
a–0–2—–3—3—3—-3—3—3—|
e—–0——————————|

(actually the guitar stays originally on C and the Ukulely variates, but this way
it sounds also correct!)

Ref:
And why, why would you kill this world my son
And why, why would leave it all for none

Verse:
Why would these words have claim upon you
Put the pills in the tears in the truth
Well you sow what you sow what you say
Still you killed her when you came

Inerlude:

Ref:
And why, why would you kill this world my son
And why, why yould you leave it all for none
But the world, well is stands beneath those stars

Verse:
Well I’ll write it all down for you
Bitter tea, bitter tune, bitter you
Well you sow what you sow what you say
Still you killed her when you came

Interlude:

Verse:
And why, why would you kill this world my son
And why, why would you leave it all for none
But the world, well stands beneath your scars

Standard Tuning
Capo 2nd fret

Intro
Em, G x4

Oh violence, stained our hands
Sold us on hero talk with their boyish charms
With the call
For us to win
oh oh oh oh oh, the call to win.

The time that we spent
As we dug with our hands
And our notes we left unharvested
When we scratched to get in

oh the words we left
oh, their words we left

Em, G x2

With the Spring came the thaw
And our friends that we lost
Still we left them there unharvested
In the cold November wind
Cold November wind

Where the bombs had us hypnotized
As they pinned us down in the rain
We’d breath it in
And again we’d breath it in
And again we’d breath it in
And…Ohhh we never left

Em, G x2

Then the cold weather wained
But the lines they still remained
So they sold us on hero talk with their boyish charms
With the call for us to win

A very powerful song about soldiers dying in the battlefield during WW1…

Standard Tuning
Capo 3rd fret

Intro

Am x8

You can do this little pattern in between times (listen to the song to figure it out)…

E——–0-
B——–1-
G——0h2-
D–0h2—2-
A——–0-
E———-

…and finish intro with:

E–1-0—–1-
B——3-1-1-
G———-2-
D———-3-
A———-0-
E————

F, C, G x 3

Well I’ll hold you in my arms till the wounds subside
And we call out to the darkness as we pray for the coming light
We know now that your coming
We hear the rattle in your lungs
We know now that you’ll never
Make the coming light of dawn

(or you can do the intro pattern ending in Am 4 times and the then, the pattern ending in F)

hummm hummm humm
Oh, I dream about you
In the cold of the night

We hold out for the moments
Though we know they’ll never arrive
Held down undercover
beneath the cold and dirty skies
We hold on to each other
For who wants to die alone

(Solo 1)Am
same pattern as intro

hummm hummm humm
Hey we both know
These lines won’t move

We call now for our lovers
As they lie by the river side
Chased back to the moment
By the sound of the coming tide

(solo 2) C, E, F, C, G x2

We’re sure now that she’s coming
Our written words, they won’t die with us

E, F, C, G

We call now for our mothers
In the end we all die alone

Am, G, C

Can I sleep for a while
18 wheelers shake the wall
and the mortars coming out
the city says they’ll tear it down
We grew up right here
doorframes marked with heights and years
our lives in crooked frames
kitchen table coffee stain

go to sleep with a smile
curled up winters fire side
flashlights on frozen pipes
and winter nights still froze in time
ohhhh ohhhhhh ohhhhhh

This old house
packed up now and emptied out
keepin things we spoke about
left the crystal
I’ll sort the rest of it out
ohhhhhhh ohhhh
ohhhhhhh ohhhh
ohhhhhhh ohhhh

Tabbed by Adam Rytwinski
Questions/Comments/Corrections arytwins@lakeheadu.ca

I’m sure a lot of the words are wrong, Email me corrections if you want 🙂
a little time away
go back up to the lakes
a little time of pain
let some trouble sing

watch the sunrise
light a little fire
watch the smokey lines
cut between the pines

cut between the pines
and the darkness in our minds
shed a little light
so far away tonight
so far away tonight
so far away tonight

lay that cedar home
the waters deep in calm
as we travel on
to that little pond

put to that little pond

there’s a little place
beat up and lost grace
we can see you there
in that northern air

in that northern air
in that northern air

there’s a little place
neat up and lost grace
we can see you there
in that northern air

In that northern air