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John Allyn Smith Sails easy guitar chords by 
Okkervil River
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Verse 1
A
D
A
By the second verse, dear friends
Bm
G
My head will burst, my life will end
A
So I'd like to start this
D
one off by saying
Live and love
Verse 2
D
A
I was young and at home in bed
Bm
And I was hanging on the words
G
some poem said
And thirty-one
A
D
I I was impressionable,
Em
I was upsettable
G
I tried to make my
Verse 3
Bm
G
breathing stop,
A
my heart beat slow
Bm
So when my mom and John
G
A
came in I would be cold
Verse 4
A
D
A
From a bridge on Washington Avenue
Bm
G
The year of 1972
A
Broke my bones and skull
D
And it was memorable
Verse 5
D
It was half a second and I
A
was halfway down
Bm
Do you think I wanted to turn
G
back around
A
And teach a class
D
Where you kiss the ass
Em
that I've exposed to you
Verse 6
Bm
G
And at the funeral the university
A
Bm
Cried at three poems they'd
G
A
present in place of a broken me
Verse 7
D
A
I was breaking in a case of suds
Bm
G
At the brass rail, a fall-down drunk
drunk
A
With his tongue torn out
D
And his balls removed
Verse 8
D
And I knew that my last
A
lines were gone
Bm
G
While stupidly I lingered on
A
Other wise men know
D
When it's time to go and
Em
so I should too
Verse 9
Bm
And so I fly into the bright
G
A
est winter sun
Bm
Of this frozen town
G
A
I'm stripped down to move on
My friends, I'm gone
Em
G
Verse 10
A
D
Well, I hear my father fall
G
D
and I hear my mother call
G
D
G
D
And I hear the others all whispering,
A
come home
I'm sorry to go,
D
G
D
G
D
G
I loved you all so
D
A
But this is the worst trip
I've ever been on
D
G
Verse 11
D
G
D
So hoist up the John B. sail
G
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
D
G
D
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
G
I've fol
Verse 12
D
ded my heart in my head
A
And I wanna go home
D
G
With a book in my hand
D
G
In the way I had planned
D
A
Well, this is the worst trip
I've ever been on
D
Verse 13
G
D
Hoist up the John B. sail
G
(Hoist up the John B. sail)
D
See how the main sail sets
(See how the main sail sets)
G
I've
Verse 14
D
folded my heart in my head
A
And I wanna go home
D
With a book in each hand
G
(With a book in each hand)
D
G
In the way I had planned
D
(In the way I had planned)
Verse 15
A
I feel so broke up
D
I wanna go home
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