Hawkins Ron

Hawkins Ron - The Tame The Half-born guitar chord

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:39:34 -0600

From: Kevin Fredrick Cumming

Subject: CRD: h/hawkins_ron/the_tame,_the_half-born,_the_wild_and_you.crd

The Tame, The Half-Born, The Wild and You

Ron Hawkins

album: The Secret of my Excess

transcribed by Kevin Cumming

intro: G Am Em C x2

NOTE: When playing Am in the intro, start off with the B string open and

      then hammer on the 1st fret for the same sound that Ron has.

    G                Am           Em                    C

If Carolyn called me up today I'd hang up the phone and walk away

G                     Am                C                      D

It's not that I don't care anymore but time changes locks on a lot of

doors

    Em                  F                Am   D

And I know what you're thinking and it's true

Em                 F                Am  D

Sometimes there is nothing you can do

    G                   Am          Em              C

But there's a time that I recall a purple street in Lisbon

G                Am               C               D

She was speaking dreams to me and I thought I was listening

    G             Am          Em               C

But I was fifteen yards away before I felt the distance

G            Am                 C               D

She cried in Augusta street and stared into the windows

    Em                F                 Am   D

And I know what she's thinking and it's true

Em                 F               Am   D

Sometimes there is nothing she can do

C  G       Am

Carolyn is tamed...

All those years and all those tears

Cuddling her insecure

And shaking like a child and feeling helpless

But maybe I share the blame

G           Am              Em             C

Peter has a fan club he's a whiskey hating Christian

    G                 Am          C                 D

And he's in love with everyone as long as they keep listening

              Em             F               Am    D

And there's a hole in my old faith where he belongs

         Em              F                Am    D

But, the whole of me has never been that strong

C     G       Am

Peter is half-born...

With one foot in and one foot out

A princess on a barstool

Anarcho- Commun- Liberat- ingratiating stranger to me now

Bridge:

G D F Em

G D F Em

G     D           F     Em G     D          F   Em

Close friends and passerby love affairs and suicides

Am                C             D         Am           C          D

Sex and drugs and crash n' burn decisions politics and prostitute

religions

Am             C         F                Em     C

Fucking at the movies or fighting in the street

G               Am              Em              C  

Christopher's a scapegoat cause he lives like a poem

    G              Am          C              D

And they want explanations but I just want to know him

G                Am             Em               C

Not for what he claims to be or what they say he isn't

G                 Am               Em           D

Just because he's got the balls to make his own decisions

    Em                      F              Am     D

And sometimes the pain he's feeling is so real

Em                F             Am    D

Sometimes that is all I need to feel

C      G       Am

Christopher is wild...

With fire-escape guitar afflictions

Different lives but shared addictions

Late night taxi, Frank Black happy birthdays

And blood-pact butchers knives

G                  Am              Em            C

Amsterdam, the sex museums and the New York City subway

   G           Am          C           D

Vancouver in November, and Montreal on Monday

      G            Am                 Em          C

We'll get a fix in Union Square we'll drop at C.B.G.B.'s

       G             Am                          C                  D

And if we can't find salvation there, we'll stay home and watch the t.v.

Em               F                     Am     D

And I'll be your disciple if you'll be mine

          Em               F             Am  

And we'll make love in the moaning summertime

      C       G     Am

Cause you are beautiful...

Chords:

G       320033

Am      x02210

Em      022000

C       x32010

F       133211

D       xx0232

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