My apologies to Ian MacNaughtan — I couldn’t find your email address to send you these corrections. I pretty much just fixed the lyrics. The tabs were fine…
This is a great song by the Hip. Never recorded, circa 1989-1990.
Intro. A — B — A — B — C — A — G — D — E.
Verse one:
C D G D C D G D
What’s the deal with your dad? He don’t even know my name.
C D G C
Didn’t know he’d been back, Didn’t know he’d been mad,
D
No one stayed to share the blame.
C D G D C D G D
I didn’t mean to do that. She won’t even come around.
C D G C D
Everytime I look back, Didn’t realize that, I was better off than now
Chorus:
G D C G D A C
Mothers came and cried for Abel. Brother Cain survived the century’s end.
G D A E G A E
All the time that I thought was my friend, Be all right till we get back again.
Verse two:
Heaven knows you all right, and they will never drag you down.
There ain’t time to lose sight. Getting lost in the light
Is more that never being found.
Chorus:
Mothers came and cried for Abel. Brother Cain survived the century’s end.
All the time that I thought was my friend, Be all right till we get back again.
Bridge:
C D G D C
I never could go back, and I could never leave my home.
C D
Why’d they change a face like that?
G C G C G C D
If I’d never seen ya, I could always dream that I’d be better off alone.
Chorus:
Mothers came and cried for Abel. Brother Cain survived the century’s end.
All the time that I thought was my friend, Be all right till we get back again.
G A E
Be all right till we get back again.
G A E
Be all right till we get back again.
