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Loner Tab

by Bruce Cockburn




here's a great tune from the untouchable Bruce Cockburn. it's LONER from
his his record Inner City Front. an alternate version also appears on the
compilation Mummy Dust. this transcription isn't as technical as the way
bruce plays it, but if you can sing along it sounds pretty good.

CHORDS:     xx0232
	?  020230
	E?   x4x450  (regular E also works alright here)
	    024400
	    x02220

TUNING: standard

	      		     
VERSE 1:  down at the bus station
	  				    
	  shark grins and sandpaper conversation
	  					     
	  men's faces women's bodies on the magazine stand
	           			       
	  and a headline about sarajevo and tehran

	  					     
VERSE 2:  they are radiant angels they are earthly slaves
	  					     
	  they are predators moving in their endless days
	  				 
	  days of striving nights of novacaine
	  					       
	  never going to bring them freedom from their pain

	              
CHORUS:   i'm a lo-----ner
				          
	  with a loner's point of view
	  			    
	  i've always been a lo-----ner
	        	              
	  now i'm in love with you

	  		    
VERSE 3:  wild shadows acid verbs
	  			   
	  eyelids opening dans mon coeur
	  		        
	  tu me touche comme la pression
	       	      
	  des etoiles sur les tenebres

	  			    
VERSE 4:  in the elevator and empty hall
	  					  
	  how'm i ever going to hear you when you call
	  				 
	  i'm always living and i always die
	  			       
	  on the event horizon of your eye

CHORUS again


hope this ok. works for me. brilliant song from the best songwriter AND
guitar player there is. enjoy.

	  boe barnett at northern arizona university
	  flagstaff, az.
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