From sylcab@dwp.ci.la.ca.us Thu May 15 16:55:39 1997 > 5 Days In May - Blue Rodeo > ------------- > >From the CD: Five Days in July > Words and Music by: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor > > Key: > > Intro: > > > > Verse: > > They met in a hurricane > > Standing in the shelter out of the rain > > She tucked a note into his hand > > Later on they took his car > > Drove on down where the beaches are > > He wrote her name in the sand > > Never even let go of her hand > > Somehow they stayed that way > For those 5 days in May > Made all the stars around them shine > Funny how you can look in vain > Living on nerves and such sweet pain > The loneliness that cuts so fine > To find the face you've seen a thousand times > > Chorus: > > Sometimes the world begins > > To set you up on your feet again > > It wipes the tears from your eyes > > How will you ever know > > The way that circumstances go > > Always going to hit you by surprise > > I know my past > > You were there > / > In everything I've done > > You are the one > > Looking back it's hard to tell > Why they stood while others fell > Spend your life working it out > All I know is one cloudy day > They both just ran away > Rain on the windshield heading South > She loved the lines around his mouth > > (Chorus) > > Notes: > Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of > chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked > on strings 2 through 5 only. Those chords are: > X0221X > X2000X > X3201X > / X3243X