Band: Weakerthans
Song: Reconstruction Site
*Capo on the 2nd Fret (II) (I use an elastic capo; it sucks)
*Tune G string down 1/2 step
*All tabs relative to capo
*Transition after the open F# is quick to the next note
Intro
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B|-----0-----0-----0----0----------------------------------------------------|
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D|----------2----4-----4-----------------------------------------------------|
A|---2----0-----2-----2------------------------------------------------------|
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strum these more than just playing them as show, but the ratio is 1:1:2
F# B7 C#7
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A|---2------0--------2-------------------------------------------------------|
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Verse (Palm Muted)
F# B7 C#7
Well I'm Lost, I'm afraid, a rope tying down a leaky boat
F# B7 C#7
To the roof of car on a road in the dark and its snowing
F# B7 C#7
If I'm more than a means less, last call for happiness
F# B7 C#7
I'm the dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing
F# B7 C#7
I'm a float in a summer parade
F# B7 C#7
Up the street in a town that you were born in
F# B7 C#7
With the girl at the top wearing tool, and miss somewhere
F# B7 C#7
sash, waving like the queen. (medium pace slide)
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Chorus Open Chords
F# B7 C#7
Well beauty's just another word, I'm never certain how it's spelled
F# B7 C#7
Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on
F# B7 C#7
Throw away my misery, it never meant that much to me
F# B7 C#7
It never sent a get well card
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Verse (2)
F# B7 C#7
And I'm broke like a bad joke somebody's uncle told
F# B7 C#7
At a wedding reception in Nineteen Seventy Two
F# B7 C#7
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
F# B7 C#7
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
F# B7 C#7
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
F# B7 C#7
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
F# B7 C#7
And he thought about how everyone dies someday.
F# B7 C#7
And when tomorrow gets here where will yesterday be?
F# B7 C#7
And he fell asleep in his brand new winter coat.
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F# B7 C#7
Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline
F# B7 C#7
and all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
F# B7 C#7
Disassembles my dispair, never took me anywhere
F# B7 C#7
It never once bought me a drink
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