Augie March ? Just Passing Through
Capo 2 (Glenn Richards does like that capo 2)
Standard Tuning
INTRO
G--Em--G--Em--G--Em--C--Am-Em-
GEm
At ten o'clock is when I rise from my grave
GEm
And cast my eyes over the ideas that I couldn't save
GEm
Become regret and break upon me now wave after wave
CAmEm
Bid me remember what I done
GEm
A strange appeal is in the magazine zodiac
GEm
What inspiration are the women of the dog track
GEm
Now there's a wheel and there's a well and there's a big rack
CAmEm
The perfumed killers from the north
CAmEm
Collect each Saturday to brood and sally forth
CEm
I don't know enough to know not to show it
CEm
Or tell it like I know more
CEm
I'm sorry, baby, but your roving poet's
CAmEm
Just a bank balance troubadour
CAmEm
Who can't sing the song anymore
C----Em----C----Em----
GEm
At ten o'clock is when you open up your apple eyes
GEm
And drink a cup into the one of earth the other skies
GEm
And out your mouth a tiny burst of tiny baby cries
CAmEm
Oh where, oh where, oh where did you get into to?
GEm
A strange appeal unto a pocket where a body lay
GEm
I saw a dream of such a couple only yesterday
GEm
When the one did leave the other went to war Enola Gay
CAmEm
She had a halo, was a heroine
CAmEm
She had a halo, was a heroine
CEm
Well, I know I'm not loathe to show it
CEm
I smile like a bandsaw
CEm
I'm sorry, darling, but your roving poet's
CAmEm
Just a footloose man-whore
CAmEm
Who can't talk the talk anymore
CEm
We're just passing through
CEm
Just passing through
GEm
At ten o'clock is when I rise from my grave
GEm
And cast my eyes over the ideas that I couldn't save
GEm
Become regret and break upon me now wave after wave
CAmEm
Bid me remember what I done
GEm
When time doesn't tear you pay a fee to make it rip
GEm
The ditch witch, the back hoe, the bobcat, the tip
GEm
Soil from the hillock spilling over on that solemn lip
CAmEm
It covers up the cedar mirror
CAmEm
Do you ever see your weakness any clearer?
CEm
We were winding up the road to the site
CEm
With the windows down and the cigarettes alight
CEm
Singing some rubbish about, "My soul's alright"
CAmEm
I didn't know what I could do
(repeat x2)
CAmEm
It's just you and I, some other guy, forever passing through.
CEm
We're just passing through
(Like a gall stone)
CEm
Just passing through
(Like a rat through a snake)
CEm
Just passing through
(Little rubbish through a rake)
CEm
Just passing through
D--C--
(Incomprehensible)
C--Em-- (repeat as necessary)