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Okkervil River
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Key: A major

Intro 1

Baby's ball

Verse 1
G G 
 
all blood
C C 
 
G G 
 
red of flayed pigs
C C 
 
G G 
 
And silk soft little things
C C 
 
G G 
 
Fill a house hung from strings
D D 
 
And I fly out on my silver,
C C 
 
G G 
 
scissoring wings
D D 
 
(with the other sardines)
C C 
 
G G 
 
Over cities of things
C C 
 
mommies need
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Light as gas, and half-assedly free,
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Like I was in nineteen ninety three.
C C 
 
Over the ru

Verse 2
G G 
 
ins like we're
C C 
 
G G 
 
staggering apes.
C C 
 
G G 
 
What we get is what we take
D D 
 
In a split open place where
C C 
 
G G 
 
a man can get kinged
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
In a palace of panic and flames
C C 
 
G G 
 
Where nobody gets blamed
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
By the tired, and broke down, an d beat.
D D 
 
In sunken gardens where
C C 
 
G G 
 
there was a street.

Verse 3
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
West over water I rambled and paced,
C C 
 
G G 
 
And the blood river raced like
C C 
 
G G 
 
the sweat down my face.
D D 
 
And the stadium roared.
C C 
 
G G 
 
And the warriors embraced.
D D 
 
And the golden shore groaned
C C 
 
G G 
 
Beneath the weight of my tastes.
C C 
 
And I blazed
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
In the last orange hours of the day,
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Until the dust hazed and hid us away.

Verse 4
G G 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
So, little baby, be brave.
C C 
 
G G 
 
D D 
 
I see your dad riding over the rise,
Bm Bm 
 
D D 
 
C C 
 
G G 
 
Crashing his whole cavalcade
C C 
 
through the crowd.
G G 
 
D D 
 
Watch them run on all sides.

Interlude 1

Verse 5
G G 
 
And the neon white branches,
And the carrion fly
C C 
 
G G 
 
On a congressman's eye
D D 
 
I have wrapped up for you in
C C 
 
G G 
 
some old autumn leaves,
D D 
 
And left under a rock out on
C C 
 
Rock-Rockaway Beach,
G G 
 
Beach,
Beneath the trees.
C C 
 

Verse 6
D D 
 
I have laughed my best hiss to the
C C 
 
G G 
 
whistling breeze.
D D 
 
There's a hole in my throat.
C C 
 
G G 
 
You can note my last wheeze
C C 
 
if you need.
D D 
 
C C 
 
And then take hold of the rope
G G 
 
Down we scream.

Outro 1

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TunerE A D G B E

ChordsG C D Bm

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