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Belated Promise Ring
Iron And Wine
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Tabbed by Warrick Holfeld
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Belated Promise Ring
Standard tuning Capo 2nd Fret
Intro:
FCGC FCG
F C G C
Sunday morning, my Rebecca sleeping in with me again
F C G
There's a kid outside the church kicking a can
F C G C
When the cedar branches twist she turns her collar to the wind
F C G
The weather can close the world within its hand
F C G C
And my mother says Rebecca is as stubborn as they come
F C G
They both call to me with words I never knew
F C G C
There's a bug inside the thimble, there's a band-aid on her thumb
F C G
And a pony in the river turning blue
F C G C
They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
F C G
My Rebecca says she never wants a boy
F C G C
To be barefoot on the driveway as they wave and ride away
F C G
Then to run inside and curse the open door
F C G C
I once gave to my Rebecca a belated promise ring
F C G
And she sold it to the waitress on a train
F C G C
I may find her by the phone but with a fashion magazine
F C G
She may kiss me when her girlfriends leave again
F C G C
They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
F C G
I think I could never love another girl
F C G C
To be free atop a tree stump and to look the other way
F C G
While she shines my mother's imitation pearls
Solo
F C G C
Sunday evening my Rebecca's lost a book she never read
F C G
And the moon already fell into the sea
F C G C
Saw the statues of our fathers in the courthouse flower bed
F C G
Now they blend with all the lightning-tattered trees
F C G C
They say, "Time may give you more than your poor bones could ever take"
F C G
My Rebecca said she knew I'd want a boy
F C G C
A dollar for my boardwalk red balloon, to float away
F C G
She would earn a pocketful to buy me more