A Man Needs a Vocation chords by
Craig Finn
Craig Finn

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Key: G major
Intro 1
G
G

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D
D

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Verse 1
D
D

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The trip was pretty bleak
But it was cheaper than the train
F#m
F#m

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Disembarked during a summer storm
Got hammered by the rain
G
G

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As he hobbled down the frontage road
Csus2
Csus2

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With a footlocker and in
D
D

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a fair amount of pain
Verse 2
D
D

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From a payphone at a the station
He called on some old friends
F#m
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And a guy that he'd played football with
Said he could take him in
G
G

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On a blanket on a mattress
Csus2
Csus2

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C
C

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In the basement by
Csus2
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the furnace
C
C

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D
D

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He was home again
Verse 3
G
G

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But he'd been gone for long
enough that
D
D

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Something wasn't lining up
Em
Em

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This distance didn't exist before
D
D

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The plexiglass at liquor stores.
C
C

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The wretches in the parking lots
Csus2
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G
G

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The torches in the smoking
shops
Am
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Everything felt twice as hot to him
D
D

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Verse 4
Started ringing up the register
At a Sinclair down the street
F#m
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Started saving up and bought a truck
Started sleeping in the backseat
G
G

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In the morning when he wakes up
C
C

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There's a pamphlet on the windshield
Verse 5
Bm
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With a cartoon of a shepherd
Tending to some cartoon sheep
D
D

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It said we'll walk you through
the paperwork
The course takes twenty weeks
G
G

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With a military discount
C
C

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D
D

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The divinity comes cheaply and discreetly
Verse 6
D
D

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G
G

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In classrooms in an office park
D
D

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Fluorescent lights against the dark
Em
Em

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Long rows of unsteady desks
D
D

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He memorized the sacred texts
C
C

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That earned him the certificate
G
G

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That led him a place to live
Am
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And though he didn't believe in it
C
C

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He was quite convinced
Interlude 1
A man needs a vocation
G
G

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Verse 7
C
C

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G
G

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So he drove out to Fishersville
Without saying goodbye
C
C

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G
G

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There was never really anything to say
C
C

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The guys that he played football with
Em
Em

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Were all starting to die
Am
Am

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And it still felt pretty pointless
when he prayed
C
C

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D
D

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Verse 8
G
G

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He'd been there for long enough
D
D

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To know the savior won't show up
Em
Em

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The distance between everything
D
D

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And Daniel back in Washington
C
C

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The way it hung above his head
G
G

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The wretches in the tanning beds
Am
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Turning up the torch again
G
G

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Virginia with your rolling hills
D
D

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The cities with their easy thrills
Em
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The clinics with their sliding scales
D
D

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Scratching out prescriptions
C
C

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They said you can't help somebody else
Em
Em

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Until you take care of yourself
Am
Am

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He never really fell for it
C
C

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But he was quite convinced
Outro 1
A man needs a vocation
G
G

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