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We Dont Eat by James Vincent McMorrow - Guitar Chords
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The chords are pretty straightforward, what's more difficult is capturing
the beat and piano bass.
Personally, I like to play the first verse through the second chorus (i.e.
until the bridge) in a pretty straight 4/4 strum, with a small crescendo
throughout. I play the first part of the bridge pretty sparsely (one strum
per chord), but the second part (G F Am G) I pick up the beat again,
go 8/8 with crescendo, and then culminate in the release on the chorus.
Again, this is a personal choice. In other words, play it as you like.
[Intro]
G C G
[Verse 1]
G
If this is redemption, why do I bother at all?
Em C G
There's nothing to mention, and nothing has changed
C D Em
Still I'd rather be working at something, than praying for the rain
C D G
So I wander on, till someone else is saved
[Verse 2](same chords as Verse 1)
G
I moved to the coast, under a mountain
Em C G
Swam in the ocean, slept on my own
C D Em
At dawn i would watch the sun, cut ribbons through the bay
C D G
I'd remember all, the things my mother wrote
[Chorus]
Em C G
That we don't eat until your father's at the table
Em C G
And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Em C G D/F# Em
And never once has any man I've met been able to love
C D G G4 G
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust
[Verse 3]
G
Two thousand years, I've been in that water
Em C G
Two thousand years, sunk like a stone
C D Em
Desperately reaching for nets that the fishermen have thrown
C D G
Trying to find a little bit of hope
[Verse 4]
G
Me, I was holding, all of my secrets soft and hid
Em C G
Pages were folded; then there was nothing at all
C D Em
So if in the future I might, need myself a savior
C D G
I'll remember what was written on that wall
[Chorus]
Em C G
That we don't eat until your father's at the table
Em C G
And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Em C G D/F# Em
And never once has any man I've met been able to love
C D G G4 G
So if I were you, I'd have a little trust
[Bridge]
Dm Em
Am I an honest man and true?
Dm
Have I been good to you at all?
Am
Oh I'm so tired of playing these games
We'd just be running down
G
The same old lines, the same old stories of
F
Breathless trains and, worn down glories
Am
Houses burning, worlds that turn
G
On their own
[Chorus]
Em C G
That we don't eat until your father's at the table
Em C G
And we don't drink until the devil's turned to dust
Em C G D/F# Em
And never once has any man I've met been able to love
C
So if I were you my friend
D G
Learn to have just a little bit of trust.
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