---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Flashback Blues - John Prine ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tabbed by: Dave S. Email: Dlgibson@netscape.com Tuning: Standard Artist: John Prine Album: John Prine Year: 1971 Intro: CGCF CGC C G While window shopping through the past C F I ran across a looking glass C G C Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light C G Tragic magic prayers of passion C F Stay the same through changing fashions C G C They freeze my mind like water on a winter?s night Chorus: D Spent most of my youth G Out hobo cruising D And all I got for proof G Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes C G So goodbye nonbeliever C F Don?t you know that I hate to leave here C G C So long babe, I got the flashback blues. (Repeat Intro) C G Photographs show the laughs C F Recorded in between the bad times C G C Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship C G Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies C F Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes C G C Well sure I made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip. (Repeat Chorus) C G And ten times what it grieves you C F That?s how much more I hate to leave you now C G C So long babe, I got the flashback blues. (Repeat intro) (Repeat chorus) C G So goodbye nonbeliever C F Don?t you know that I hate to leave here C G C So long babe, I got the flashback blues.