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Breakdown Tab

by Jack Johnson


Played mainly in barre chords, but have tabbed a version for beginners primarily

CHORDS -

  - X32010
 - X02210
  - 320003
- X20010
 - 022000
  - 132211

{Intro} 

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{Verse 1}

                          
I Hope this old train breaks down

                  
Then I could take a walk around

                  
See what there is to see

             
Time is just a melody

                                       
With all the people in the street walking fast as there feet

                                   
Can take them, I just stroll through town

                                              
And though my windows got a view, well the frame Im looking through

                              
Seems to have no concern for us now,

 
{Chorus 1}

                    
I need this, old train to breakdown

                       
Oh, please just, let me just breakdown


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{Verse2}

                
Well this engine screams out loud

                 
Centipede going to crawl Westbound

              
So I dont even make a sound 'cos

                               
Its all going to sting me when I leave this town

                                        
And all the people in the street that I'll never get to meet

                              
If these tracks don't bend some-how

                                                           
And I got no time that I got to get to where, I don't need to be, So I


{Chorus 2}


                    
I need this, old train to breakdown

                       
Oh, please just, let me just breakdown


                    
I need this, old train to breakdown

                       
Oh, please just, let me just breakdown



{Bridge} 

                        
        I want to break on down

               
But I can't stop now

              
Let me break on down


{Verse 3}

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But you can't stop nothing if you got no control

                                    
Of the thoughts in your mind that you kept and you know

                              
You don't know nothing but you don't need know

                               
The wisdoms in the trees not the glass windows

                             
You can't stop wishing if you dont let go 

                                  
Of the things that you find and you lose you know

                            
You keep on rolling, put the moment on hold

                                
The frames too bright, so put the blinds down low



{Chorus 3, As Chorus 2}


{Outro}

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I want to break on down

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But I can't stop now


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