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You Are Never Alone Tab

by Vic Chesnutt


Intro:
e|-------------------0---|
B|---7-------9-----5---5-|
G|-7---7---9---9---------|
D|---------------9-------|
A|-----------------------|
E|-----------------------|  x3

From the way the intro is played, it seems like these are the fingerings he's using...

: 557775
E: 779997  (Of course, since this is E, you can leave the E strings open sometimes)
: x07650

Bass lead in: (E|-0---2---4...)

Verse: (Throughout the song, different little two-note pickings
are added to the ends of lines, just improvise using the fingerings
above and sometimes hammering up to fret 7 on the B string when on
the A chord)


It's ok... you can take a condom
                  
It's ok... you can take a Vouchex(?)

It's ok... you can get an abortion
       D          E            A  (Intro riff plays during this progression)
And then, Keep on...keepin' on
                     
  Keep on...keepin' on


It's ok... you can take a Prilosec
                  
It's ok... you can take Vioxin

It's ok... you can get a quadruple bipass and then
                   
Keep on...keepin' on
                    ... 
Keep on...keepin' on

Chorus:
                 
You are... never alone
                 
You are... never alone
                 
You are... never alone

You------ are------

(E|-0---2---4)

(Brief interlude in )


It's ok... in moderation
         
It's ok... cuttin' down

It's ok... you can quit tomorrow
                                
But for now, keep on...keepin' on
D       E         A  (Here he jumps up to a xx[11]9[10]9 fingering)
keep on...keepin' on

...

e|-----9----9----9----9--0-0-0--|(let this one ring)
B|-[10]-[10]-[10]-[10]--9-9-9---|

(E|-0---2---4)


It's ok... you can take the bible
         
It's ok... you can be saved

It's ok... you can be forgiven
                               
And for now keep on...keepin' on
                           
for now keep on...keepin' on

Chorus:
                 
You are... never alone
                 
You are... never alone
                 
You are... never alone

You------ are------    x2

Hold the last strum on "are" and let it fade.


--Tristan Bowersox