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Alternative, maybe easier, version:
  • Transpose the chords 3 half steps down [ -3 ]
  • Put a capo on fret 3 to stay in the same key

UKULELE CHORDS

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Intro -x2-: Cm Bb Ab Eb

Verse 1:
Cm         Bb            Ab        Eb
You were a phonograph, I was a kid
   Cm         Bb               Ab      Eb
I sat with an ear close, just listening
      Cm             Bb               Ab             Eb
I was there when the rain tapped her way down your face
           Cm      Bb          Ab            Eb
You were a miracle I was just holdin your space

Interlude -x2-: Cm Eb Bb Eb

Verse 2:
     Cm         Bb                  Ab            Eb
Well time has a way of throwing it all in your face
    Cm           Bb            Ab          Eb
The past, she is haunted, the future is laced
Cm             Bb              Ab         Eb
Heartbreak, ya know, drives a big black car
     Cm             Bb              Ab          Eb
Swear i was in the back seat, just minding my own

Interlude -x2-: Cm Eb Bb Eb

Chorus:
    Bb                                           Eb
And through the glass, the corn crows come like rain
           Bb                Cm
They wont stay, they wont stay for
             Eb
Too long now
               Bb           Cm
This could be all that we know...
    Fsus2
Of love and all.

Verse 3:
     Cm         Bb       Ab        Eb
Well you were a dancer, I was a rag
     Cm         Bb             Ab          Eb
The song in my head, well was all that I had
Cm         Bb        Ab           Eb
Hope was a letter I never could send
Cm         Bb          Ab           Eb
Love was a country we couldn't defend

Interlude -x2-: Cm Eb Bb Eb

Bridge:
    Bb                 Ab                  Eb          Bb
And through the carnival we watch them go round and round
Bb                Ab                Eb               Bb
All we knew of home was just a sunset and some clowns  ohhhhhhh

Verse 4:
     Cm         Bb         Ab       Eb
Well you were a magazine, I was a plain Jane
     Cm             Bb          Ab           Eb
Just walking the sidewalks all covered in rain
Cm            Bb        Ab            Eb
love to just get into some of your stories
Cm          Bb          Ab           Eb
Just me and all of my plain Jane glory

Interlude: Cm Bb Ab Eb

Cm          Bb         Ab          Eb
Just me and all of my plain Jane glory

Interlude -x2-: Cm Eb Bb Eb

Cm  Bb  Ab           Eb
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Gregory Alan Isakov (born in 1979 in Johannesburg, South Africa) is a South Africa-born American singer-songwriter. He released his first album, Rust Colored Stones, in 2003.

Isakov has been described by Boulder Weekly, “Strong, subtle, a lyrical genius” and has been compared to his influences; Bruce Springsteen, Kelly Joe Phelps, Iron & Wine and Gillian Welch. Isakov’s humble presence and his overwhelming voice and guitar style has been treasured by an ever-growing and captivated fan base.

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