Intro: G (x3) C D

(No Chord)
Well I’ve been lockin’ myself up in my house for sometime now
Readin’ and writin’ and readin’ and thinkin’
and searching for reasons and missing the seasons.
The Autumn, the Spring, the Summer, the snow.
The record will stop and the record will go.
Latches latched the windows down,
the dog coming in and the dog going out.
Up with caffeine and down with a shot.
Constantly worried about what I’ve got.
Distracting my work but I can’t make a stop
and my confidence on and my confidence off.
And I sink to the bottom and rise to the top
and I think to myself that I do this a lot.
World outside just goes it goes it goes it goes it goes it goes…
and witness it all from the blinds of my window.
THREE, FOUR
Chorus:
I’m a little nervous ‘bout what you’ll think
When you see me in my swimming trunks
And last night in New York I got raging drunk
Remember one time I got raging drunk with you

Now, I can recall a time when we made the city
Streets our playground, kissing in the fountains
Filled with cigarettes and bottles
Sped through Italian city streets of cobblestone
Because we had to
Because I loved you
Because the damned alcohol
Beacuse what ever at all
(No Chord)
Now I’ve grown to aware of my mortality
To let go and forget about dying
Long enough to drop the hammer down
And let the indolence go wild and flying through
Because we had to

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KICK DRUM HEART ACOUSTIC EU – The Avett Brothers

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Tuning: Standard

PLEASE READ
(This is for an acoustic version filmed by crackerfarm during their second
segment of their Europe tour, In Paris and Amsterdam. I know people have wanted
this tabbed for a while so… I will link the video below and mark when the
song starts)

Song at 0:40 seconds.

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Intro:
G C G D x2

The footprints over the snow
the fabric of all the lonely
C-Covering only
the fables and hands

the rest is out in the cold
holding the last of the season
F-F-F freezin’ Yeah

My my my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My love like a voice.

We’re walkin’ in to the fields.
We’re walkin in to the forest.
The moon is before us, up above
We’re holdin’ hands in the rain
S-sayin’ words like I love you
D-D-D’you love me? Yeah

My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my heart like a kick drum
My my love like a voice

C D G G/f# C
Mother Mary heard us approaching her door
D G G/f# Em
Although we didn’t make a sound.

There’s nothing like finding gold
within the rocks hard and cold
I’m so surprised to find more

Always surprised to find more
I won’t look back anymore
I left the people that do
Its not the chase that I love

Its me following you.

REPEAT CHORUS

END!

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Will I be ready?
When my feet won’t walk another mile?
And my lips give their last kiss goodbye?
Will my hands be steady
When I lay down my fears, my hopes and my doubts?
The rings on my fingers, and the keys to my house
With no hard feelings?

When the sun hangs low in the west
And the line in my chest, won’t be kept, held at bay any longer
When the jealousy fades away
And it’s ash and dust, for casual lust, and it’s just hallelujah
And love in thoughts and love in the words
Love in the songs they sing in the church
And no hard feelings

(Chorus)
Lord knows they haven’t done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold
Mmm hmm

When my body won’t hold me anymore
And it finally lets me free
Where will I go?
Will the trade winds take me south
Through Georgia grain?
Or tropical rain?
Or snow from the heavens?

Will I join with the ocean blue?
Or run into a savior true?
And shake hands laughing
And walk through the night, straight to the light
Holding the love I’ve known in my life
And no hard feelings

(Chorus)
Lord knows they haven’t done
Much good for anyone
Kept me afraid and cold
With so much to have and hold

Under the curving sky
I’m finally learning why
It matters for me and you
To say it and mean it too
For life and its loveliness
And all of its ugliness
Good as it’s been to me
I have no enemies
I have no enemies
I’ll have no enemies

I have no enemies

[Verse 1]
Things didn’t work out like they should

Farther from how you thought they would

Do you still want my hand?
Do you think I’m still your man?
I’ll change everything I can
Matrimony…

[Transition]
Em G Am Em (x2)

[Verse 2]
Holy plans and holy gifts
Holy sht what did we get
You said you’ve got plans of your own
You’re gonna work and I’ll stay home

Do you still want my hand?
Do you think I’m still your man?
I’ll change everything I can
Matrimony…

[Verse 3]
My dog is loud and my dog is wild
We’re too young to have a child
Can you keep the dog next week?
I’ll be gone the next three

Em G Em Am Em C Em D (x4)

Do you still want my hand?
Do you think I’m still your man?
I’ll change everything I can
Matrimony…

[Transition]
Em G Am Em (x2)

[Verse 4]
I ain’t through I ain’t walking out
Leaving ain’t what I’m about

You may scream and I may shout
But baby I love you…

SORRY MAN – The Avett Brothers

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Tuning: Standard

Your mama doesn’t like me
She thinks I’m a sorry man
When she tells her friends about me
She says I’m a sorry man
And she asks you each day
Why would you stay with a sorry man
Well I was doing my best
Just trying to impress, still a sorry man
And I’ve got news for your ma
I’m the best she ever saw
No one could love your daughter like I do

Your mama told you father
She said I’m a sorry man
So he told me not to ever
Come back here again
So I told your dear old daddy
That he can’t keep us apart
Because it’s you and not your parents
Who can break my heart
And I’ve got news for your ma
I’m the best she ever saw
No one could love your daughter like I do

Well I tried to tell your mama
But I didn’t want to fight
Well they’ll be the same tomorrow
So we’re leaving here tonight
Tomorrow they’ll be waking
To a sad sorry dawn
And then they’ll be sorry
When they see that we’re gone
Cause I’ve got news for your ma
I’m the best she ever saw
No one could love your daughter like I do

Tuning: Standard

What was it like for you
I can tell you in truth what it was like for me
To be sixteen in July, sixteen in July
License in my hand
Freedom on my mind
I was sixteen in July, sixteen in July
With summer to my left
And no one to my right

What did you want to hear on your radio
Even if it did not come in clear
You’d still be sixteen in July, sixteen in July
With license in your hand
and freedom on your mind
If youre sixteen in July, sixteen in July
With summer to your left
And no one to your right

For me it was shortcut road
The girl was new and the car was old
Were you in love like me?
Or at least as in love as you can be?
When youre sixteen in July, sixteen in July
With license in your hand
and freedom on your mind
I was sixteen in July, sixteen in July
With summer to my left, and no one to my right

[Verse 1]
Get the young scientists, tell them “come quick”
I must be the first man that’s ever seen this
Lines on my face, my teeth are not white
My eyes do not work and my legs don’t move right

Call the Smithsonian I made a discovery
Life ain’t forever and lunch isn’t free
Loved ones will break your heart with or without you
Turns out we don’t get to know everything

[Verse 2]
I wonder if Romeo ever got scared
Taken but shaken, unprepared
Under the balcony, under the trees
Fully unknowing of where this would lead
What if we marry or give up the ghost?
Or we abandon those we love most?
What if you carry me and lay me down
Once you get used to me being around?

Call the Smithsonian I made a discovery
Life ain’t forever and lunch isn’t free
Loved ones will break your heart with or without you
Turns out we don’t get to know everything

[Verse 3]
My bedroom’s an office, my kitchen’s a car
My life is a joke, my bathroom’s a bar
I go there a lot, more than I should
I know I should stop but it feels too damn good

Call the Smithsonian I made a discovery
Life ain’t forever and lunch isn’t free
Loved ones will break your heart with or without you
Turns out we don’t get to know everything

Tab #1 (relative to capo)

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B|—-1——1—1—- ———|
G|—-0——2—2—-x3 ———|
D|——2——3—— ———|
A|–3——3———- -3-3-3—|
E|——————– ———|

Tab #2 (also relative to capo)

e|–0–0-0-0-0–1–3–1–0——|
B|–1–1-1-1-1–1–3–1–1——|
G|–0–0-0-0-0–2–4–2–0——|
D|–2–2-2-2-2–3–5–3–2——|
A|–3–3-3-3-3–3–5–3–3——|
E|–0–0-0-0-0–1–3–1–0——|

Play Tab #1 or

[Verse 1]
(The chords here aren’t exactly synced with the words, but isten to the song and you’ll
see how it goes)

You are mine
The edge I need when I am out of line
The air I breathe when I believe I’m dying
I guess you are there

It is told
With age our hearts are destined to grow cold
Well I won’t argue that but this I know
The snow won’t fall on me

Life goes yes I guess it’s true
Why close down we’ll follow soon
Where we are is not so far from where we’re gonna be
You and me

[Verse 2]
(The piano part here can be played by repeating tab #2)

Our life is a hill
With danger in our hearts the roads are filled
With shadows deep and dark girl grip your wheel
Push your moment through

Life goes yes I guess it’s true
Why close down we’ll follow soon
Where we are is not so far from where we’re gonna be
You and me
You and me

[Interlude]

You are mine
The first to kiss the last to say goodbye

The answer to the question who do I owe my everything?

Life goes yes I guess it’s true
Why close down we’ll follow soon
Where we are is not so far from where we’re gonna be
You and me
You and me

I work my day to come home to you, oh yeah
So you can do whatever you wanna do, uh huh
With your big brown eyes and your curly brown hair,
I’m doing the best I can do just to try to not stare

My God, your loveliness

Gotta feelin your man he won’t like the news, oh no
Ain’t gonna like it when he has to choose, oh no
With you could be one and never be apart (?)
I can feel it in my mind I can feel it in my soul in my heart

Oh baby please come around

Was that your man he’s your fiancé, oh yeah
The one to tie the knot each and every day uh huh
I gotta get up the nerve to pick up the phone
It’s you sweet mama I’m-a gonna carry you back home!

Way out to old Wyom

I prob’ly shoulda thought about lettin’ you know, uh huh
If I love you like I do I shoulda told you so, uh huh
Well I think about you each and every day,
It’s just my knees are gettin’ weak when I try to say

Oh baby, please be mine

Gotta feelin’ that I’m barkin’ up and empty tree
How could someone so beautiful think about me?
Put my tail between my legs and turn my back
Try on my trusty ramblin’ sack

I'm off to old Wyom

Now in the movies they make it look so perfect
And in the background they’re always playing the right song
And in the ending there’s always a resolution
But real life is more than just two hours long

So you want to be in love like the movies
But in the movies they’re not in love at all
And with a twinkle in their eyes
They’re just saying their lines
So we can’t be in love like the movies

Well you can freeze frame any moment from a movie
Or run the whole damn thing backwards from reel to reel
But I don’t see one single solitary light technician
Or one single camera in this moonlit field

I don’t want to be in love like the movies
Cause in the movies they’re not in love at all
With a twinkle in their eyes
They’re just saying their lines
So we can’t be in love like the movies