The Porcupine Talks To Itself chords by
Bill Staines

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Key: Eb major

Verse 1
Gm Gm 3
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There is a line in that song
D D 
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G G 
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that says the porcupine talks to himself
Gm Gm 3
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an  d that actually came out of a
D D 
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camping trip
that I took about five or six years
ago
Am Am 
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now up into the southwestern
Am Am 
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part of Montana.
I was camping with my wife
on a place called the To
C#m C#m 4
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F#m F#m 2
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bacco Root Mountains
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G G 
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in southwestern Montana.
We were up about 9 ,500 feet
Gm Gm 3
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and we were there
for about a week and a half
and we hadn't seen another
Am Am 
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D D 
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living soul up there.
G G 
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Now you have to realize
Gm Gm 3
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F F 
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that when it gets dark in Montana up
Gm Gm 3
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in the mountains
G G 
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there are no kinds of cities around
to give you any kind of reflective lighting at all,
and the moon didn't happen to be out
at that time of month.
Gm Gm 3
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So when it got dark, it got dark.
D D 
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G G 
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So one morning my wife says to me,
Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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did you hear a very strange noise
in the camp last night?
F#m F#m 2
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F F 
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And I said, no.
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She said,
F#m F#m 2
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there was a presence in this camp
G G 
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F F 
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making some strange noises last night.
G G 
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F#m F#m 2
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G G 
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And I thought, fine.
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G G 
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Let's go home,
Gm Gm 3
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because I am no Daniel
G G 
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Am Am 
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Boone in the woods.
G G 
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So the next morning,
F F 
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3 .30 in the morning,
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it's just as black as can be.
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I can't even see your hand
G G 
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in front of your face.
A A 
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I am lying awake, staring at
Am Am 
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G G 
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the roof of the tent,
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G G 
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Em Em 
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D D 
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G G 
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listening to the wind in the passes.
Am Am 
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Gm Gm 3
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I hear this.
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D D 
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G G 
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And
I'm staring at the roof of the tent,
F#m F#m 2
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and thinking, it's just the wind,
D D 
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G G 
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but it's getting closer and
closer and closer
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Gm Gm 3
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D D 
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Am Am 
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and this thing brushed right by my head
A A 
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right along the wall of the tent
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D D 
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Gm Gm 3
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Bb Bb 
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Gm Gm 3
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an d
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Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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I thought
D D 
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Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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Gm Gm 3
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to myself oh man they've landed
I figured we were all going to wake up
on Pluto.
C#m C#m 4
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D D 
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See the blue light start to flash
Gm Gm 3
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and that was going to be
G G 
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the end of the whole thing.
Gm Gm 3
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G G 
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So  I gathered all my courage together,
took my flashlight,
C#m C#m 4
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F#m F#m 2
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zipped down the opening of the tent
about half an inch.
C#m C#m 4
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Making as little sound as possible,
I turned on the flashlight,
shined my light out,
got this big old porcupine
G G 
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messing around in the fire,
G G 
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got him right between the eyes
with my flashlight being, he's just,
scared the daylights out of him
and then he's kind of a crotchety old fella,
got caught right there in my campfire.
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Anyhow, that's where that line comes from.

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