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tabbed by Gabbi aka sept151983

This is a very rough tab, but I figured a song this good deserved at least this.


The riff is something like this:


E -2-------2--------3--

B -3-2-0-0--3-0-1-1--0-

G -2-------------------

D -0-------------------

A -0-------------------

E ---------------------

D                        C       D   G

Come and stay with me as long as you like

D                                G                C

I live outside of town where the straight highway curves

D                       C                G

For three years I lived next door to the airport

D                            G             A

So nothing you can say to me can get on my nerves



Bm                A         D                   G

Stay 'til you can feel your legs underneath you again

         G          C         D
         
I've got room in my house for you



D                           C               G

I got a Kenmore single room window unit air conditioner

D                           G            C

Cools down the place in the full heat of day

D                       C               G

A family of possums has made their home underneath the front steps

D                          G               A

They are magestic in their own beady-eyed, homely way


Bm                A            D             G

Stay 'til you can breathe like normal people do

         G          C         D
         
I've got room in my house for you


Dm   A                        G               D

They tore down the airport in nineteen eighty one

D       C                   G                    A

This is where I came when I ran out of places to run


      D                           C                  G
      
Come, come, come and stay with me out here away from things

D                               G          A

Come and stay with me where the sky's real clear

D                           C                      G

I live way out where no one believes anybody could live

D                                C                       G

The sky's purple from six in the evening to midnight out here


Bm            A          D       G

Stay 'til the world goes down in flames

G                         C         D

I've got room, room in my house for you