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a baby for pree ( live at jittery joe’s ) – jeff mangum
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i suggest finding someway to listen to this version before you try to play it . it would
difficult just off the chords alone .

this is the live at jittery joe’s version of the song , not the one on on avery island .

note : his guitar is tuned slightly sharp when playing this song , so if you try to play
the cd it will sound off . even a capo on the first will be too sharp , you have to be just
sharp . a flat sharp , if that makes sense .

intro :

C Em F Em C

C Em F Em C

C

C Em
blistering pree , all smiling and swollen
F Em
makes babies to breathe with their hearts hanging open
C Em F
all over the sheets as soft as beets in some brown dresser drawer
Em F Em
and with bees in her breath and the rest of her ringing
F Em
they’ll sting through her chest with a force hard and beating
C
until wonderfully wet she will get
Em F
until she’s soaked inside her clothes
E
and there is no sorry to be sorry for
F E
for a roll around the floor some afternoon so sound and soft
F E
it made her swallow all her sweat with every bit of breath she coughs
F G
and when the day it came to pour all her babies all across the bathroom floor
C C Em F Em
she will be swimming in them all forevermore

C Em F Em C
glow right into you , i will glow
Em F Em C
right into you i will glow
Em F
right into you
E
and i let you down
F E
swollen and small is where you find me now
F E
with that silver stripping off and my tongue you’re tearing out
F
and you’ll never hear me talk
C Em F Em C
glow right into you , i will glow
Em F Em C
right into you i will glow
Em F
right into you

E
and i will be strong , strong enough
F E
to shout above your voice that’s blaring hard
F E
and your face that’s falling out into the dust of what you are
F G C C Em
Em
and i will never hear you talk

C Em F Em C
glow right into you , i will glow
Em F Em C
right into you i will glow
Em F E
right into you

F E
and with my little finger
F E
i could make it all crumble
F E
i could make it all over
F G
before you would even know
C
glow