These Few Presidents Tabulatur von Why? (für Baryton)

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G       D            C
At your house the smell of our still living human bodies and oven gas


You pray to nothing out loud

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Two first names and an ampersand embroidered proudly on a kitchen towel


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You're a beautiful and violent work with the skinny neck of a Chinese bird

     G               D
in a fading ancient painting.

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And if you're in heaven waiting you made it there fighting

DCD
the tightest kite string in a bad storm with lightning.


# Chorus:

Em  G     C               Em
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket

C       Em         D      C      G       D
Can't persuade no god to let me let you talk.

 Em   G      C               Em
And now these few presidents frowning in my pocket

C       G          D      C      G       D
Can't persuade no god to let me let you off.

GD
Even though I haven't seen you in years

CD    EmDC
yours is a funeral I'd fly to from anywhere.


# Verse 2:

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I thought I had a pebble in my sock

Em     C
I pulled it off and shook out a wasp

   G                      D
It stumbled out lost and without a pause

  Em                       C
unstung as I was, still I stomped it.


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I thought "There is no paved street worthy

Em                   C
of your perfect Scandinavian feet."

Em                      C
My crooked chinese fingers groped (wah-wah wah)

Em               CD
  the machinery of your throat.


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# Repeat Chorus then repeat "anywhere." (fade out)