Date: Mon, 3 Jul 1995 23:24:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Edmond Hum
Subject: TAB: «Houdini Blues» by Kristin Hersh
houdini blues
by kristin hersh
from ‘hips and makers’
transcribed by edmond hum ([email protected])
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—start—
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D+ C+ G+ -[1st part]
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Oh no don’t you put me in that box
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you know what you can do with those locks
D+ C+ B+ G+ -[2nd part]
bet your life I’ll come crawling out again
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you’ll have to deal with me then
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you’ll hear me in the wind
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D+ C+ G+ -[1st part]
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I been on the other side of the Blue Ridge
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seen the Shenandoah rolling there
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I stepped off the mountain’s edge
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just to climb the golden stair
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I seen the streets up there
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I been on the mount transfiguration
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been there with my ma and my pa
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on the mountain of commandment
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I been handed down the law
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you should have seen what I saw
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I fell to the bottom of Thales’ well
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caught like a thief with a lamb
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you know those stars they can cast a spell
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I been caught with red hands
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I been caught with red hands
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D+ C+ G+ -[1st part]
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I scaled the mountains skiied the valleys
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I’ve done the highs and the lows
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I don’t feel like work today
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hell I won’t go
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Bess I won’t go
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Just let me at their locks
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we should all be free
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oh Bess I swear I’ll call
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when I’m free from me
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we should all be free
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Oh no don’t you put me in that box
D+ C+ B+ G+ D+ C+ G+
you know what you can do with those locks
D+ C+ B+ G+ -[2nd part]
bet your life I’ll come crawling out again
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you’ll have to deal with me then
D+ C+ B+ G+
you’ll hear me in the wind
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D+ C+ G+ -[1st part]
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D+ C+ B+ G+ D+ C+ G+
Oh no don’t you put me in that box
D+ C+ B+ G+ D+ C+ G+
you know what you can do with those locks
D+ C+ B+ G+ -[2nd part]
bet your life I’ll come crawling out again
D+ C+ B+ G+
you’ll have to deal with me then
D+ C+ B+ G+ — D+ C+ G+
you’ll hear me in the wind
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