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--- tabs:weekend_in_western_illinois [2007/01/27 15:53]
kris created
+++ tabs:weekend_in_western_illinois [2021/08/24 21:42] (current)
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-this song is just D-A-G in two progressions.  the riff is;
+===== Weekend in Western Illinois =====
+Tab originally posted by kris.\\
+Cleaned up and re-posted by Dan Trombley (daniel.trombley at gmail dot com)
-(D chord open)
+<code>
-e --3-2-0-3--2----
+this song is just D-A-G in two progressions. the riff is;
-b --------------3-----3
-g------------------2-----0  (into the G)
+(D chord open)
+e-3-2-0-3-2-----------
+B-----------3---3-----
+G-------------2---0---
     D                       G
 The lands opening up like a blanket
-        D                            G
+         D                            G
 and the dandelions spread themselves thickly out
-D                       A               D
+   D                     A               D
 along the fields, which are, evidently, endless;
-                                  G
+           D                         G
 and we are hotly in love with one another.
-             D                          G
+                D                        G
-we've got an unquenchable thirst in our throats.
+we’ve got an unquenchable thirst in our throats.
-            D                          A
+             D                          A
 we are, for some reason, all the time, bleeding,
-           D
+             D
 and we are friendless.
-(muted strums)
+(muted strums - D)
+D                  G         D                         G
-D                 G         D                         G
+and we love these dogs that roll on the lawns here in galesburg –
-and we love these dogs that roll on the lawns here in galesburg --
+D                          A                     D
-             D                    A             G
 because they seem to know something nobody else knows.
-      D                              G
+       D                              G
 it is written in the smiles on their faces,
-       D                         G
+        D                         G
 and it rings in their high young voices
-       D                     A
+        D                     A
 we are burning up all of our choices up here
-          G                             D (and into riff)
+           G                             D (and into riff)
 where the tall grass grows, up here in galesburg.
-the sky's opening up like an old wound,
+the sky’s opening up like an old wound,
 and the rain on our bodies is warm tonight
 and the ground underneath us shakes in the cracking thunder.
 we can taste fresh blood in our mouths again:
 there is no chance of getting enough of it,
-and we tally up all our possessions, we're going under.
+and we tally up all our possessions, we’re going under.
 but we love these dogs that loll in the rain here in galesburg
 as the new season rocks them in its terrible arms.
 yeah they howl as though the world were ending,
 and we are watching the sky unwinding
-and some of our promises were binding up here where our dreams take form
+and some of our promises were binding
-up here in galesburg.
+up here where our dreams take form up here in galesburg.
+</code>

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