Dead Letter Box chords by Jack Casady

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Verse 1
Em 
A 
 (E minor) I'm gonna tell you about the people  (A major) who wanna
Em 
A 
 (E minor) keep you in the darkness, in the  (A major) darkness
Em 
Don't you  (E minor) know what they're showing,
A 
C 
B 
A 
Em 
B 
all  (A major) about you, cause it's your  (C major) life  (B major)  (A major)  (E minor)  (B major) 
Bm 
E 
 (B minor) I've got to  (E major) go down,
Em 
C 
Em 
 (E minor) down to the post  (C major) office  (E minor) 
C 
I get the town,  (C major) I get the zip code,
get a shout- out
Em 
To the  (E minor) whispers on the wind
C 
that carry all  (C major) the doubt
A 
About your  (A major) life
C 
A 
Oh, life on a  (C major) platter, baby  (A major) 
C 
Baby, your head on a platter,  (C major) baby
A 
What you  (A major) say, what you play
C 
It's just  (C major) your heart, yeah
B 
Em 
A 
It's just a  (B major) heart in a dead  (E minor) meadow bar  (A major) 
Em 
A 
Bm 
A 
G 
Em 
Just a heart  (E minor)  (A major) in a dead  (B minor)  (A major)  (G major) meadow  (E minor) bar
A 
Em 
 (A major)  (E minor) 
A 
C 
B 
Bm 
 (A major)  (C major)  (B major)  (B minor) 
B 
Bm 
B 
E 
 (B major)  (B minor)  (B major)  (E major) 
Em 
C 
 (E minor) I found the time to get a line  (C major) 
On that lady
Em 
E 
But you get just  (E minor) one  (E major) call,
Em 
 (E minor) don't take the fall, baby
C 
Cause that's just plain  (C major) crazy, yeah
Em 
E 
It was all  (E minor) in fun (E major) ,
Em 
 (E minor) and we're steady on
And you know sometimes
C 
 (C major) all's just been amazing
A 
In your  (A major) life
C 
Your whole life's on a  (C major) platter,
A 
baby  (A major) 
C 
And baby, no, no, it don't really  (C major) matter,
no
A 
What you say,  (A major) what you play,
C 
it's just your  (C major) heart
Bm 
B 
G 
Em 
It's just a  (B minor) heart,  (B major) yeah, just  (G major)  (E minor) a   heart
A 
C 
 (A major) Yeah, just a  (C major) heart
B 
Oh,  (B major) yeah
Em 
E 
Em 
Yeah, da- da- da- da- da- da  (E minor)  (E major)  (E minor) 
B 
Em 
F#m 
Em 
A 
C 
 (B major)  (E minor)  (F sharp minor)  (E minor)  (A major)  (C major) 
D 
Em 
 (D major)  (E minor) 
E 
F#m 
D 
G 
Em 
G 
A 
First time  (E major) I   (F sharp minor)  (D major)  (G major)  (E minor)  (G major)  (A major) this
Of the
Heard
C 
A  (C major) 
Where am
D 
I?  (D major) 