Governor's Ball chords by Conor Oberst

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Intro 1

Verse 1
D 
He came with his friends,
in a caravan
F# 
G 
To witness the governor's ball
D 
Sat by himself on a cool
patch of grass
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While the rest stood like
A 
bricks in a wall
Bm 
The stage it looked like a
G 
vending machine
F# 
Bm 
The singer, a black barbie doll
D 
G 
But it was well light, and well managed
D 
G 
Said our property, would be damaged
D 
A 
G 
Until his boredom, took full ad vantage
D 
Of it all

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Verse 2
D 
Talk to a girl, with klonopin eyes
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G 
Who said she had jewelry to sell
D 
First he said "no thanks"
then he realized
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A 
That he wasn't feeling that well
Bm 
And he took what she held
G 
looked like pieces of sky
F# 
Bm 
And a garnet like teardrops from hell
D 
G 
She offered, him a necklace,
D 
G 
and he wanted to accept it
D 
A 
But it would end up, too ex pensive,
G 
D 
he could tell
G 
Then she said
D 
G 
"Why not
D 
What have you got
Em 
To lose

Interlude 1

To lose"

When he

Verse 3
D 
never came back,
and the curve you have pathed
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His friends searched the fair
G 
grounds for clues
D 
The security guard
with the maniacal laugh
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A 
Said its always the leader you lose
Bm 
And he finally turned up in
G 
the broad light of day
F# 
Bm 
With a black eye as big as the moon
D 
G 
They all asked him, what had happened
D 
G 
Was it real or, imagined
D 
Why on earth had,
A 
G 
D 
he abandon them so soon
G 
And he said
D 
"Why not
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D 
I do what I've got
Em 
To do
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A 
Its what you do"