Poor Boy - Blind Pilot
By jtzingsheim
Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st Fret
Verse/Chorus
(Alternate these chord lines, listen to the track for help, usually plays the
first line during vocal lines and the second line between vocal lines.)
CCCFmaj7
e|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------0-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------2-------3-------|
A|3-------3-------3---------------|
E|--------------------------------|
CCDFmaj7
e|0-------0-------1-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------2-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------3-------3-------|
A|3-------3-----------------------|
E|--------------------------------|
::Verse 1::
CCmaj7
Poor boy
Cadd9Fmaj7
Why don't you try getting water?
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
Poor boy
Cadd9Fmaj7
Why don't you try getting sleep?
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
I think
Cadd9Fmaj7
if one of us is going to suffer
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
Why shouldn't it be me?
CCDFmaj7
::Verse 2::
CCmaj7
Poor boy
Cadd9Fmaj7
Your wife is in hard labor
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
The rhythm you know
Cadd9Fmaj7
Is pulsing and drifting to the grave
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
When you come to
Cadd9Fmaj7
You'll be asking yourself just one question
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
Was I always this way?
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
Was I always this way?
::Verse 3::
CCmaj7
Think back a year
Cadd9Fmaj7
When everything stood at the surface
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
But bandage your cuts
Cadd9Fmaj7
cause you don't know what swims underneath
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
Hold tight
Cadd9Fmaj7
The bondage of this life is slipping
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
Why shouldn't it be me?
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
Why shouldn't it be me?
::Bridge::
FFm
When I come back
CEm
You'll be the brightest star
FG
In the black
FFm
When there are days
CEmAmG
That you want the call we're all waiting for
C
Think back
::Final Verse::
CCmaj7
Poor boy
Cadd9Fmaj7
Your wife is in hard labor
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
Go buy
Cadd9Fmaj7
the flowers you'll leave on its grave
CCDFmaj7CCmaj7
You went with the goal
Cadd9Fmaj7
of movement, Now one thing is different:
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
You don't want to change.
CCDmj7 Fmaj7
I don't want to change
C