Okkervil River - Rider

artist : okkervil river
song : rider
album : i Am very far
tabbed by : don tago
email : recebedou@yahoo . com

standard tuning :

chords used :
eadgbe
A : 002220
A2 * : 5542 – –
D : 000232
E : 022100

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intro : D – A

verse 1 chords :
D A D A D A
baby’s ball all blood red like flayed of pigs and silk soft little things
D A
fill a house hung from strings
E D A
and i fly out on my silver , scissoring wings
E D A A2 *
with the other sardines over cities of things mommies need
E D A
light as gas , and half – assedly free
E D A
like i was in nineteen ninety three

verse 2 chords :
D A D A D A
over the ruins like we’re staggering apes , what we get is what we take
E D A
in a split open place where a man can get kinged
E D A D A
in a palace of panic and flames , where nobody gets blamed
E D A
by the tired , and broke down , and beat
E D A
sunken gardens where there was a street

verse 3 : use verse 1 chords
west over water i rambled and paced
and the blood river raced like the sweat down my face
and the stadium roared , and the warriors embraced
and the golden shore groaned beneath the weight of my tastes , and i blazed
in the last orange hours of the day
until the dust hazed and hid us away

bridge :
D A D A E
little baby , be brave , see dad riding over the rise
D A D A E
his whole cavalcade through the crowd watch them run on all sides

verse 4 : use verse 1 chords
and the neon white branches , and the carrion fly on a congressman’s eye
i have wrapped up for you in some old autumn leaves
and left under a rock out on rockaway beach beneath the trees
i have laughed my best hiss to the whistling breeze
there’s a hole in my throat , you can note my last wheeze if you need
and then take hold of the rope down we scream