--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foggy Lilac Windows - Frontier Ruckus --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: 3lacksabbath81 Email: sskinner@wit.edu The Orion Songbook: Track 8 Matthew Milia: songs, voice, guitar, harmonica, pedal steel David W. Jones: banjo, voice, dobro Zachary Nichols: brass, singing-saw, melodica, keyboards Ryan Etzcorn: drums, percussion The chords are directly from Matthew on FR's site. I take little to no credit for them. I did fix the forum formatting problems though. Tuning: Standard (Capo 3rd Fret) Chords: relative to capo GCBCCEAAFFDFDA7 e|---3---0---0---0---0---0---0---0----2---2---5---1----1---0---| B|---0---1---1---1---1---0---1---1----2---2---6---1----3---2---| G|---0---0---0---0---3---0---2---0----3---2---5---2----2---0---| D|---0---2---0---2---2---2---2---2----4---4---0---0----0---2---| A|---2---3---2---0---3---2---0---0----4---4----------------0---| E|---3-------------------0------------2---2--------------------| Ahh... A7 Lick e|---------------| e|--0------------------| B|---------------| B|--2---3p2-----3p2----| G|---------------| G|--0---0-------0------| D|----------0----| D|--2---2-------2------| A|------0h2---0--| A|--0---0---0---0---0--| E|--0h3----------| E|---------------------| Verse I G^ C Em Ah, the holes of highway bones are filled Am F Fm But the tolls of highway loans are billed Dm C F Dm7 To the board of directors of boredom, here C Em So I slept outside the worried exit Am F Fm And hurried to avoid the decrepit Dm C F Dm7 Hordes of fallen Lords, I cant afford em, dear Verse II C C7 But overwhelmed is a laughing word F G To say youve taken for granted stillness Dm C F Dm7 On an ever-moving planet C C7 Was the glaciers falling heard F G Was the crumbling porchs utter realness Dm C F Fm Made of ash or made of granite Verse III Am Em Oh, Im so longing for my mamas kiss Dm C And scratching my old lifetimes back F Fm That simpleminded tenderness C A7 Is a pity that my searches lack Am Em The graveyard breathes reality Dm C But realitys blurred outside my gates F Fm No matter if I hesitate, Chorus C B/C The foggy lilac windows come Cm7 G Dm7 F/D And dumb my number one ambition... C And its too much repitition Cycle through the verse chords regularly: Some added licks he does. GCEAFFm e|---------------------------------------------0---2--2--| B|---------------1--1-1--1---1-1-----3/5--3\1--1---2--2--| G|---------------0--0-0--0---0-0---0-----------2---3--2--| D|----------0----2--2-2--0h2-2-2---2-----------2---4--4--| A|------0h2---0--3--3-3--3---3-3---2-----------0---4--4--| E|--0h3----------------------------0---------------2--2--| DCFDm7 e|--1-0---------------2--2-2-2-2-0--5--| B|--3---3----1-0------2--2-2-2-2-0--6--| G|--2-----2--0---0----3--3-3-3-3-0--5--| D|--0--------2-----2--4--4-4-4-4-0--0--| A|-----------3--------4--4-4-4-4-------| E|--------------------2--2-2-2-2-------| Verse IV C Em The south was knee-deep in the weeds Am F Fm And I was in a plank-wood parlor Dm C F Dm7 Every flame from every mouth was only worth a dime C Em Feeling easier to move than shifting reeds Am F Fm I was wearing my times on my collar Dm C F Dm7 But my colors dont get bright in seasons time Verse V C C7 Your biggest grid did shrink and sink F G In one nights walk of blindness Dm C F Dm7 To foreign sites where bright lights find you out C C7 When evolution is extinct F G And lurking is a fossils kindness Dm C F Fm And theres no one left under our sun to sign you out Verse VI Am Em And the piano strings are damp and deep Dm C And the honky-tonk is breaking free F Fm And the second-grader that you keep C A7 Beneath your skin is next to me Am Em Ah, who likes, who plays these games Dm C And who is clutching to the reins F Fm Cause I scurried open plains Chorus II C B/C And the foggy lilac windows come Cm7 G Dm7 F/D And dumb my number one ambition... C And it's too much competition e|---------------| B|---------------| G|---------------| D|----------0----| A|------0h2---0--| E|--0h3----------| Verse VII - Listen to the song to hear how to play this verse C And that bleached canal was rare B/C And Ma was there Am G Dm7 And no one dared to care (about tomorrow) C The road is bare B/C I go nowhere Am G Dm7 And all the joy that I'm aware (is food for sorrow) C B/C The loft upstairs is unprepared Am G Dm7 The billboard fields are stoned in pairs C B/C The gravel layers and river dares Am G Dm7 And the air is very weary (end with a verse) e|--1-0---------------2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2---0~-----| B|--3---3----1-0------2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2---1~-----| G|--2-----2--0---0----3-3-3-3---2-2-2-2---0~-----| D|--0--------2-----2--4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4---2~-----| A|-----------3--------4-4-4-4---4-4-4-4---3~-----| E|--------------------2-2-2-2---2-2-2-2----------| Sources: Chords - http://www.frontierruckus.com/connect/ Lyrics - http://www.frontierruckus.com/songbook/ Tabs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kei4l3CcYPg ************************************ | / slide up | \ slide down | h hammer-on | p pull-off ************************************