Chord Booklet

Damien Jurado

10 songs|18 chords used|Medium

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Chords used

C/B

D#m

G/C

C/G

Bm7

F#m7

Em7

The Last Great Washington State

Key: DEasy

DNever be sorry for the lack of rAesponse

EYour hand on my arm before we were lost

DThe horizon just laughed to see Aus fall off

EYour face in a jar I constantly dropped

DYou have him now but I'll have yAou later

EThe phone is a gossip

EThe clock is a murderer

DMy time is her burden

AYour voice is his slumber

EHow long have we been here?

EI can't quite remember my Dname A E

DI had you pegged as one who woulAd throw me

EAway from your shoreline

EInto the galaxy

DWhere moons are a fool

AStars climb eternity

ELong after voids

EAnd handwritten destiny

DLong after voices return from thAe telephone

ECut off from color

ELeave everyone you know

DThey'll let you down

AI'll let you talk into the sky

EThat he keeps turning off like a Dlight A E

DPraises fall short from the handAs of the choir

EWho all stand in judgment and funerals pyre

DNow that your dead

AThey wait for the symphonies

EConductors retire to the bed of our sympathy

DLosing our minds on yesterday's Atragedy

EAre you surprised they're singing in harmony?

DFlooding the hallways

AI notice the exit signs pointing the way out

EI knew they were on to us all Dalong A E

DYour suitcase fits well in the rAoom you are living in

EQuick to leave town

EIs it how you imagined it?

DAlone with your ghosts, and the

Aquestion mark protagonist

ELeaving you in deserts in search of answers

DTo all of the questions that leaAd to more questions

EAfraid to stand up or lose your salvation

DStop and rewind

AThey all change the station

EThe story hits home to close for their liking

D"Stick to the script where you lAovers are dying"

EBored and annoyed

E"You're not even trying to turn us Don" A E

DAnd building was on fire

AWhen I saw you step out

EAfraid of your ghosts, and highly in doubt

AWhen you knew all along,

DNot even your cloud

EWould ever withstand the song from your mouth

DSo they took all your scripts,

AAnd the rain from your eyes

EThey're cashing it in for the next passing ride

DTo some other city you made up iAn your mind

EThey missed when you died

ESo they're hitting rewind

DWhat good is living if you can'tA write your ending?

EYou're always in doubt of the truths you're defending

DSeeing yourself in others Aideas

EI'll write you from somewhere,

EAnd call you from later on

DI'll need a good time,

AYou'll need a daydream

EHelplessly helpless

E"I am alive, can you hear me?"

DSleeping in motion

AI love you Washington EState

Refrain

DSleeping in motion

AI love you Washington EState

DAsleep in a motion

AI love you Washington EState

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Over Rainbows And Rainier

Key: CMedium

C/B

The Cangel Moroni aCsleep in the carport

With the Cnewspaper under his Farm

It sGeems I was late to deGliver his car keys

So it Glooks like we are staying behCind

Was CLucifer bashful

In Chiding his face from the FLord

Dear GJesus, forgive me

I'm Gonly doing as I was Ctold

For Cas it is written

I will Csoon one day face my own Ffire

This Gworld will go with me

If I can Gjust get them all on my Cside

Carry Fme over Grainbows and CRainier

I was Clate to the parlor

When the Cwind it blew forward

And Cdemanded we get out of Ftown

So Gme and Moroni

Took the Gkeys to the sGteeple

And aGwaited Armageddon to go Cdown

Place your Cqueens on the table

Who are Cweeping for your daughters

Who are Cwaiting for their Sunday to reFturn

Every Gheart will be broken

ProGphetic poems spoken

From the Gmouths of every baby to be Cborn

Carry Fme over Grainbows and CRainier

Am Let your cries be Genjoyed

Let it Falways and forever fill the Cvoid C/B

Am Allow my heart some Groom

F G walk up on the 5th string 0-2-3 then 4th string 0-2)

May it be so that you'll one day need me soon

My Cwheels that are turning

And my Cback to the window

I colClected every wave from the Fshore

I Gforgot I was human... Gpause

And I laid up my Gemotions

And I knocked them like Gdishes to the Cfloor

Carry Fme over Grainbows and CRainier

Carry Fme over Grainbows and CRainier C F C

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Josephine

Key: FMedium

JFosephine, I have sBbeen you on the siFdewalk

Throwing tBbroubles just like fFlowers to passers Cby

DFon't weigh us down, though we hBbave too many Fanchors

And like yBbou we want to sFail into the sCea

Bb I never hFad the chCance to grow up

Into wBbhat they wFanted me to Cbe

Bb Every rFainbow hCas an end

And it's wBbhere the cFolors are lCeaving

BbFCBbFC

JoFsephine, keep your sBbunlight in our wFindows

We are rBbusted like the sFilos full of grCain

JFosephine, is it tBbrue that all state chFildren

Who will Bbone day be forgFotten by our naCmes

Bb I never hFad the chCance to grow up

Into wBbhat they wFanted me to Cbe

Bb Every rFainbow hCas an end

And it's wBbhere the cFolors lCeaving

BbFCBbFC

JFosephine, I was wrBbitten in the sFkyline

You must leBbave before your tFime oh oh Coh

DFon't let us die for we nBbeed your hands to clFing to

A dBboorway we can wFalk through to hCeaven

Bb I never hFad the chCance to grow up

Into wBbhat they wFanted me to Cbe

Bb Every rFainbow hCas an end

And it's wBbhere the cFolors lCeaving

BbF

CBbFC

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A.m. A,m

Key: CMedium

CStuck here in a life that reEmpeaBts

CLiving in the now and beEmtweBen

FPages from a magaDmzine

FInstruction manuals for your Dmdreams

CEmBCEmB

CThis is where you stop and reEmwinBd

CThis where our dreams all colEmlidBe

FStreaming through your heart that was Dmmine

FLiving in my world that was Dmyours through your eyes

CEmBCEmB

It was Fyou all aDmlong

FDmFDm

CEmBCEmB

CWaiting for a life that was aEmlloBwed

CNot my own but yours all aEmlonBe

FWide awake until your Dmhome

FBlack on black, roses Dmgold

CEmBCEmB

I was Fyours all aDmlong

CEmB

I was Fyours all aDmlong

CEmBCEmB

FDon't go Dmchanging

FI'm not Dmleaving yCou Em B

CEmB

FDon't go Dmchanging

FI'm not Dmleaving yCou Em B

CEmBCEmB

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Coats Of Ice

Key: D#mHard

D#m

D#mYou'll be happy to kFnow

The sGituation is wBorse

D#mThe endless bottles of Fpills

That Gnever seem to Bwork

D#mSleeping in his cFlothes

And sGtill looking his bBest

D#mHe's so high in the tFomb

You wGouldn't know he's Bdead

D#m F# G# B (optional: slide down one fret to Bb)

You look like you could use a rest

D#mYou look lFike Gyou'd be better BdeaBbd

D#mThey're making requFests

For Gsongs that you never Bplay

D#mAnd the sanity loFst

Is Gworth the money paBid

D#mHow does it fFeel

To Gbe what you sing aBbout

D#mWe all came to aFpplaud

But the Gghost said you'd long checked Bout

D#mYou look lFike Gyou could use a BresBbt

D#mYou look lFike Gyou'd be better BdeaBbd

D#mYou'll be happy to kFnow

The sGituation is wBorse

D#mThe endless bottles of Fpills

That Gnever seem to Bwork

D#mShe's keeping receFipts

On Gall that you've done Bwrong

D#mYour selfish efforts were chFeap

And have Glasted far too Blong

D#mYou look lFike Gyou could use a BresBbt

D#mYou look lFike Gyou'd be better BdeaBbd

D#mYou look lFike Gyou could use a BresBbt

D#mYou look lFike Gyou'd be better BdeaBbd

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Gillian Was A Horse

Key: CCapo 2Medium

CIt's midnight and I give up

I'm tired of lying to you Em D

Am I will not hold your hand and pretend I'm your Clover

You must admit the turn outs

Have all been less than a grand Em D

Am There's no more police escorts or the Chigh school welcome bands

F I'm no lie deCtector

F He's no bullCshit talker and Emwe Dboth know Amwho knows

What Fshould be Cknown to all the Em aDutAmhors

Now they've Cput away the kissing booths

The Chapstick gossip's truth Em D

Am The only donkey they'll be riding boy is the Cone wearing your shoes

F I'm no lie deCtector

F He's no bullCshit talker and Emwe Dboth know Amwho knows

What Fshould be Cknown to all the Em aDutAmhors

F I don't care if I'm the only Cone who's not EmpayDin

F Cos honey I am done staying Cup all night Gwaitin

C Now we're all tying the ribbons of worry to your treEme D

Am Your passing will make the headlines but sadly Cno one will read

the towns hopeless romantic had his heart on his sleevEme D

Am Died alone in a car park of a Clocal library

F I'm no lie deCtector

F He's no bullCshit talker and Emwe Dboth know Amwho knows

What Fshould be Cknown to all the Em aDutAmhors

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Abilene

Key: AmCapo 6Medium

G/C

C/G

Standard Tuning,

On a couple of the Am's in this song, Damien strikes the fourth string on the second fret,

then plays the same string open, and then hits it again with his finger on the second fret.

Such is the case in the Intro, which is played like:

Play the above 3 times for the Intro before walking up to C on the fifth string like: 0-2-3

CI fell inG/C love with a girl ofAm nineteen 2-0-2 on 4th as in Intro

CA black-hairedG/C girl IAm called Abilene Walk up to C on 5th

CYoungG/C girl,Am where's your husband?

CSadly, she reG/Cplied, I do notAm have one

CThen it's you I'llG/C marryAm with your parents' permission

AmCG/CAm

CNo fineG/C sir, Amthey will not let me marry

ForC I am a young girl

AndG/C you are a man withoutAm money

Then I'll Ccome by your wG/Cindow

AmTonight when they both will be sleeping

AmCG/CAm

COutside youG/Cr windowAm in a carriage I will be waiting

They'llC awake to find youG/C gone

Open theirAm eyes and think they're dreaming

AndC never did theyG/C think

That theirAm Abilene would leave them

AmCC/GAm

CNow fineG/C sir, Amwhere is it you shall take me?

Is it Cin the mountainsG/C high

OrAm is it the deep blue sea?

AmCG/CAm

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Kola

Key: CCapo 4Medium

And I look Cback upFon my Ctime

See the Fsnapshots of my Clife

You Fwill not be surCprised

See your Cname aGcross my Amsmile

See your Cname aGcross my Csmile

And I will rFemember Cyou

I will reFmember Cyou

The Cway you Gare right Amnow

The Cway you Gare right Cnow

When I Cfirst came Finto Cyou

I was Folder than you Cknew

Always Fgoing out of Ctune

Any Ctime you?d Gleave the Amroom

Any Ctime you?d Gleave the Croom

And I will rFemember Cyou

I will reFmember Cyou

The Cway you Gare right Amnow

The Cway you Gare right Cnow

FCFC

CGAm

CGC

And I look Cback upFon my Ctime

See the Fsnapshots of my Clife

You Fwill not be surCprised

See your Cname aGcross my Amsmile

See your Cname aGcross my Csmile

And I will rFemember Cyou

I will reFmember Cyou

The Cway you Gare right Amnow

The Cway you Gare right Cnow

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Hands On The Table

Key: GMedium

C/G

GI will always remember our hands on the table andAm I

I cC/Gould not unlock from your sGtare

And though I've tried to untie from your anchor I cAman't

C/GI am no good at giving uGp

I am dirAmecting our movie, ourC/G play in my mind G

A mAmoment suspended in C/Gtime that I keep on reGwind

And the ink, it is bleeding through pages where I wrote down your Amname

AndC/G carefully planned our escGape

I would pass you a key and pay off the judges to fAmree you

If C/Gthat's what it takes then why Gwait?

I am Amone cloud shy in youC/Gr neon sky G

FDo not goAm from my roadG

FAm

I wasG crippled and blurry the day I walked into your Amframe

I'm C/Gso focused now on your Gname

And my pages were fading from the days of exchanging my Amtune

On C/Gtrains that I took home toG you

When the Amsignal broke I Cspoke to you onG paper

From the Amparking lots to our bed whereC/G you are not nGow

FDo not goAm from my roadG

FSoon myAm moon willG fall

FSoon myAm moon G

FSoon myAm moon willG fall

FAm

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10.

Rachel & Cali

Key: BmCapo 4Medium

Bm7

F#m7

Em7

Bm7Rachel would it be alF#m7right if EmI stayed here in the Em7car?

Bm7There's too many people F#m7out there I Emdon't know Em7

Bm7It's not that I'm too F#m7shy, I Emcannot be poEm7lite

Bm7I just don't feel F#m7confident in Emcrowds Em7

Bm7Cali you can do what you'd F#m7like I'll Emprobably be here aEm7while

Bm7I'll leave you the F#m7car keys Emin case you want to Em7leave

Bm7You're welcome to stay at my F#m7house my Emparents will both be Em7out

Bm7There's a blanket in the F#m7closet if you Emdecide to sleep Em7over

Bm7Rachel I am sorry to F#m7call EmI can't sleep at Em7all

Bm7The closet's unfaF#m7miliar Emyour parents soon to be Em7home

Bm7Cali there's a way you'll be F#m7calm my Emcloset door has a Em7lock

Bm7I'll keep my window F#m7open so you can get Emin Em7

Bm7Sometimes I wish you F#m7knew Emhow I keep living for Em7you

Bm7A friend is only a F#m7love you cannot Emcommit to Em7

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