Blue Rodeo

Blue Rodeo - Five Days In May guitar chord

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From sylcab@dwp.ci.la.ca.us Thu May 15 16:55:39 1997

Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 01:03:18 -0700

From: Sylmar Converter Station Control Room

To: guitar@olga.net

Subject: BLUE RODEO

> 5 Days In May - Blue Rodeo

> -------------

> >From the CD: Five Days in July

> Words and Music by: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor

> Transcribed by: drake@sgl.ists.ca (Drake Hirasawa)

> Lyrics copied from Blue Rodeo website: www.bluerodeo.com

>

> Key: Em

>

> Intro:

>

> Em D Am C

>

> Verse:

> Em

> They met in a hurricane

> D

> Standing in the shelter out of the rain

> Am C

> She tucked a note into his hand

> Em

> Later on they took his car

> D

> Drove on down where the beaches are

> Am C

> He wrote her name in the sand

> G F C D

> Never even let go of her hand

>

> Somehow they stayed that way

> For those 5 days in May

> Made all the stars around them shine

> Funny how you can look in vain

> Living on nerves and such sweet pain

> The loneliness that cuts so fine

> To find the face you've seen a thousand times

>

> Chorus:

> C

> Sometimes the world begins

> C

> To set you up on your feet again

> Bm D

> It wipes the tears from your eyes

> C

> How will you ever know

> C

> The way that circumstances go

> Bm D

> Always going to hit you by surprise

> Am

> I know my past

> G/B

> You were there

> C Em7/C

> In everything I've done

> Em

> You are the one

>

> Looking back it's hard to tell

> Why they stood while others fell

> Spend your life working it out

> All I know is one cloudy day

> They both just ran away

> Rain on the windshield heading South

> She loved the lines around his mouth

>

> (Chorus)

>

> Notes:

> Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of

> chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked

> on strings 2 through 5 only. Those chords are:

> Am X0221X

> G/B X2000X

> C X3201X

> Em7/C X3243X

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