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59 Sound Tab

by The Gaslight Anthem


I was sick of all the tabs that have their songs tuned down a full step, so I decided to 
those standard tuning. This sounds fine with open or barr chords, but I prefer playing 
barr chords.

                                   
Well, I wonder which song they're gonna play when we go
                                                     
I hope it's something quiet and minor and peaceful and slow
                                        
when we float out into the ether, into the Everlasting Arms,
                                               
I hope we don't hear Marley's chains we forged in life
                                                
'cause the chains I been hearing now for most of my life

                                              
Did you hear the '59 Sound coming through on Grandmama's radio?
                                                
Did you hear the rattling chains in the hospital walls?
                                                    
Did you hear the old gospel choir when they came to carry you over?
                                      
Did you hear your favorite song one last time?

                                  
And I wonder were you scared when the metal hit the glass?
           
See, I was playing a show down the road
                           
when your spirit left your body
         
And they told me on the front lawn
    
I'm sorry I couldn't go,
                                                           
but I still know the song and the words and her name and the reasons
                                         
And I know 'cause we were kids and we used to hang
                                         
And I know 'cause we were kids and we used to hang

                 
Young boys
                   
Young girls
                   
Young boys
                          
Young girls