CAPO: 2nd FRET

INTRO: D Dsus4 D Bm A G G D Dsus4 D

VERSE:
So Richard Oaks gave me a call
From San Francisco late in the fall
He said it’s going down

He said we’re gonna take the island
As a monument to the smallpox blankets
And the bureaucrats
All you got to do is come along
You catch a bus tomorrow

And if we die there
Well at least we’ll make a choice
If we’re fine there
We can tell the boys

CHORUS:
That a line in the sand
Don?t matter you don?t care
That a bird in the hand is worthless
You’re too scared

INSTRUMENTAL: D Bm A G G D Dsus4 D

VERSE:
So clear my name and clear my throat
Find my voice and here we go again
I need a place to stand

I hear sirens down the street from the 3rd shift bar
I’m gonna park my car in the painted off place
Where the bikers park
See what happens then

And if I die here
Well at least I made a choice
If I’m fine here just please tell the boys

CHORUS:
That a line in the sand don?t matter
You dont care
That a bird in the hand is worthless
You’re too scared

VERSE:
My friends keep calling
I don?t pick up
I got nothing to say
That I can?t just make up anyway
I’ve got all this sht to do

I've turned you off on the radio
I turn around and it’s in a TV show
I turn that off too
I remember when I knew you

And if I’m fine here
Well I made my choice
If I die here
Please just tell the boys

CHORUS:
That a line in the sand don?t matter
You don’t care
That a bird in the hand is worthless
You’re too scared

OUTRO:
That a line in the sand don?t matter
You don’t care
That a bird in the hand is worthless
You’re too scared

A (x|0|2|2|2|0)
A5 (0|0|2|2|0|0)
Asus4 (x|0|2|2|3|0)
D (x|x|0|2|3|2)
D5 (x|x|0|2|3|0)
E (0|2|2|1|0|0)

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Intro: E – A – A5 – D5
(emphasis on the E’s (empty) top E string)

There’s a pale horse outside my door[(Asus4][A)]

In my dream where my dream horse usually goes[(Asus4][A)]

Told me its name it’s the same as yours

[(D)] I’ve been so worried about you

Cause it’s something inside even clouding your head[(Asus4][A)]

Like a mother and expecting to be soon again[(Asus4][A)]

But the thing inside you is not your kin

[(D)] It’s a ghost you let keep haunting

And I don’t know that I can be

Your place to go or what you ne[(Asus4]ed[A)]

And I don’t know that I can be

Your place to go or what you ne[(Asus4]ed[A)]

Now the next thing I know I’m on your back[(Asus4][A)]

With a suitcase full of the wrong things packed[(Asus4][A)]

Were out looking for your family but doubling back

[(D)] To every bar we chose to pass on

Now you’re kids are in cooking and screaming at the wind[(Asus4][A)]

And shooting off flare guns in memory of the Kid[(Asus4][A)]

His birthday was yesterday he would have been six

[(D)] Oh my God I am so sorry

And I don’t know that I can be

Your place to go or what you ne[(Asus4]ed[A)]

And I don’t know that I can be

Your place to go or what you ne[(Asus4]ed[A)]

E – A – A5 – D5 (x4) (see Intro)

I don’t know that I can be

I don’t know that I can be

And I don’t know that I can be

(whole part x4)

There’s a pale horse outside my door[(Asus4][A)]

In my dream where my dream horse usually goes[(Asus4][A)]

A E D (let the D ring/decay)
Told me its name it’s the same as yours