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Trampoline

Joe Henry

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"Trampoline"
by Joe Henry
from the album "Trampoline"
tablature by Dawson Smith
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Intro

   C      G    F      Am     G    F     Am     G    F     C      G    F
e----0------------------0-----------------0----------------0---------------
B------1------------------1-----------------1-----------------1------------
G------0------------------2-----------------2-----------------0------------
D-----------5------------------5-----------------5-----------------5-------
A--3------------------0-----------------0-----------------3----------------
E---------3----1-------------3----1------------3----1------------3----1----

   C     G   F
e----0----------
B------1--------
G------0--------
D----------5----
A--3------------
E--------3---1--

(note, the verses follw this sort of pattern, with the G,F always folowing
to C or Am, so preserve the picking pattern in the verses.)

Verse:

     C                    G       F
The floor will have it's way it seems.
     Am               G    F
It fights me like a trampoline.
Am              G      F
It won't let me on the ground,
    C                G       F
So this time I'm not coming down.
    C                G       F
No this time I'm not coming down.

C                 G      F
I've been talking in my sleep.
        Am                    G        F
We once kissed goodnight, and here we speak.
     Am              G     F
You loved me just so brutaly,
            C           G            F
To have the bitter life wrung out of me.


Chorus:
(note: without pattern, play with chords)

G5                F      C                 
This time I'm not coming down.
Am                G5     F
This time I'm not coming down.

         ...trampoline...
   G      F    C   
e-----------------
B-----------------
G-----------------     2x
D----5------3-----
A--------------3--
E--3---3--1-------


Verse:

     C               G   F
The whole platoon is overfed,
          Am              G       G
And we're in this thing over our heads.
   Am              G        F
My mind has never been so clear,
      Am              G      F
But I stutter like an auctioneer.

       C               G          F  
As the night has come alive with griefs,
     Am              G        F
The hew and hollar, spit and scream.
      Am              G       F
Every one of them is sick with lust,
          C                G       F
But every one of them will outlive us.


(Chorus, as before)


    C             G        F
And if I really thought I could,
 Am                G        F
I'd give up your ghost for good,
     Am              G      F
But I'm not sure it isn't you...
      C                   G       F
That keeps my ghost from leaving too.

    C                 G       F
But I don't miss you half as much,
    Am               G      F
As who you made me think I was.
              Am             G      F
When I could see myself the way you do.
             C            G       F
And I could almost see myself in you.
         C            G       F
I could almost see myself in you.


Final chorus:

     G5                F      C
And this time I'm not coming down.
    Am                G5     F
No this time I'm not coming down.
G5                 F      C
This time I'm not coming down...

        ...trampoline...
e-----------------
B-----------------
G-----------------     x5
D----5------3-----
A--------------3--
E--3---3--1-------

And then the same patter without "...trampoline..." 3x

and on:

e-----
B-----
G-----
D-----
A-----
E--3--

that's it, fellas
-D

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Trampoline

Joe Henry