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Rider

Okkervil River
Version1
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Chords in this song

Strum
D-DU-UDU
EADGBe
 A2*:5542--
 Verse 1 chords:
Baby's ball  all blood red  like flayed of pigs  and silk soft  little things
 Fill a house  hung from strings
 And I fly  out on my silver, scissoring wings
 With the other  sardines over cities  of things  mommies need
 Light as gas,  and half-assedly free
 Like I  was in nineteen  ninety three
 Verse 2 chords:
Over  the ruins  like we're staggering apes,  what we get  is what we take
 In a split  open place where a man  can get kinged
 In a palace  of panic  and flames,  where nobody  gets blamed
 By the tired,  and broke  down, and beat
 Sunken gardens  where there  was a street
 use verse 1 chords
 West over water I rambled and paced
 and the blood river raced like the sweat down my face
 And the stadium roared, and the warriors embraced
 And the golden shore groaned beneath the weight of my tastes, and I blazed
 In the last orange hours of the day
 Until the dust hazed and hid us away
 Little baby,  be brave,  see dad  riding over  the rise
 His whole  cavalcade  through the crowd  watch them run  on all sides
 use verse 1 chords
 And the neon white branches, and the carrion fly on a congressman's eye
 I have wrapped up for you in some old autumn leaves
 and left under a rock out on Rockaway Beach beneath the trees
 I have laughed my best hiss to the whistling breeze
 There's a hole in my throat, you can note my last wheeze if you need
 And then take hold of the rope down we scream

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Readable chord sheet for Rider by Okkervil River

EADGBe
A2*:5542--

[D]   [A]

Verse 1 chords:
[D]Baby's [A]ball all blood [D]red like flayed of [A]pigs and silk [D]soft little [A]things
Fill a [D]house hung from [A]strings
And I [E]fly out on my silver, [D]scissoring [A]wings
With the [E]other sardines over [D]cities of [A]things mommies [A2]need
Light as [E]gas, and half-[D]assedly [A]free
Like [E]I was in nine[D]teen ninety [A]three

Verse 2 chords:
[D]Over the [A]ruins like we're [D]staggering [A]apes, what we [D]get is what we [A]take
In a [E]split open place where a [D]man can get [A]kinged
In a [E]palace of [D]panic and [A]flames, where [D]nobody gets [A]blamed
By the [E]tired, and [D]broke down, and [A]beat
Sunken [E]gardens where [D]there was a [A]street

use verse 1 chords
West over water I rambled and paced
and the blood river raced like the sweat down my face
And the stadium roared, and the warriors embraced
And the golden shore groaned beneath the weight of my tastes, and I blazed
In the last orange hours of the day
Until the dust hazed and hid us away

Little [D]baby, be [A]brave, see [D]dad riding [A]over the [E]rise
His [D]whole caval[A]cade through the [D]crowd watch them [A]run on all [E]sides

use verse 1 chords
And the neon white branches, and the carrion fly on a congressman's eye
I have wrapped up for you in some old autumn leaves
and left under a rock out on Rockaway Beach beneath the trees
I have laughed my best hiss to the whistling breeze
There's a hole in my throat, you can note my last wheeze if you need
And then take hold of the rope down we scream

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