Passenger 26
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Afinação: E A D G B ETecla: DCapotraste: Sem capotraste
[Intro]
E A (x2)
[Verse 1]
E A E A
The last passenger on my list, number twenty-six
E A
She has to sit up the front with me
E A
D A D
I'm joking on the intercom 'cause this part of Highway One
E
You wouldn't exactly pay to see
A
D E
Backyards and rusting cars and sheets out on the line till the six lanes come down to
two
E A E
And all the time she's giving me that look I've seen before
E
But this time I don't know what to do
[Instrumental]
E A (x2)
[Verse 2]
E
Changing down on the road to the bay
E
Parking on the gravel strip
E
By the motel and the putting green
D
Once the travellers' cheques are signed
D E
She and I wait behind; I get us Ice-creams from the machine
D
John runs this motel and
D
He has a scar and a crooked hand
D E A E
He says: business hasn't been too good
E
Ever since the river mouth shifted to the south
E
And the trees washed down in the flood
E D G D
And he says; do you remember Mary and Jack?
D G D E
They had a baby - a few months back. That's their house - on that hill
E
He's a fine and healthy child
E
His dad's eyes and his mother's smile, but he's got webbed fingers and a fish's tail
E
Ahhh-ahhh-ahh
[Verse 3]
D
After dark we meet in the bus
E D
E A E
Her skin tastes like salt
A
E
She rolls her eyes back when she comes
D G D
I wake up to the sound of the tide
D G D
I don't see her so I walk outside
E
[Verse 4]
D G D
The Coromandel's turn in their sleep
D G D
They breathe; across the deep
E
As I climb the hill
E
Just like the way she - breathed on me
E
Once she was still
E
The moon spills on the sea like silver paint on a black dress
E
I check my list again
D G D G D
There were only ever twenty fiiiiive
E
E
And didn't John with the crooked hand say:
D G D
Its not human and it's not a bird
D G D
But sometimes you'd swear you heard a cry
A
[Verse 5]
E
It means gales are coming
A E
It means gales are coming
E
It means gales are coming
E
Through the gap
A
[Outro]
E
I think of my passenger
E
Wind's getting up
E
Wind's getting up
How to play Passenger 26
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