"Trampoline"
by Joe Henry
from the album "Trampoline"
tablature by Dawson Smith
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Intro
C G F Am G F Am G F C G F
e----0------------------0-----------------0----------------0---------------
B------1------------------1-----------------1-----------------1------------
G------0------------------2-----------------2-----------------0------------
D-----------5------------------5-----------------5-----------------5-------
A--3------------------0-----------------0-----------------3----------------
E---------3----1-------------3----1------------3----1------------3----1----
C G F
e----0----------
B------1--------
G------0--------
D----------5----
A--3------------
E--------3---1--
(note, the verses follw this sort of pattern, with the G,F always folowing
to C or Am, so preserve the picking pattern in the verses.)
Verse:
C G F
The floor will have it's way it seems.
Am G F
It fights me like a trampoline.
Am G F
It won't let me on the ground,
C G F
So this time I'm not coming down.
C G F
No this time I'm not coming down.
C G F
I've been talking in my sleep.
Am G F
We once kissed goodnight, and here we speak.
Am G F
You loved me just so brutaly,
C G F
To have the bitter life wrung out of me.
Chorus:
(note: without pattern, play with chords)
G5 F C
This time I'm not coming down.
Am G5 F
This time I'm not coming down.
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joe_henry/trampoline_crd.html ]
...trampoline...
G F C
e-----------------
B-----------------
G----------------- 2x
D----5------3-----
A--------------3--
E--3---3--1-------
Verse:
C G F
The whole platoon is overfed,
Am G G
And we're in this thing over our heads.
Am G F
My mind has never been so clear,
Am G F
But I stutter like an auctioneer.
C G F
As the night has come alive with griefs,
Am G F
The hew and hollar, spit and scream.
Am G F
Every one of them is sick with lust,
C G F
But every one of them will outlive us.
(Chorus, as before)
C G F
And if I really thought I could,
Am G F
I'd give up your ghost for good,
Am G F
But I'm not sure it isn't you...
C G F
That keeps my ghost from leaving too.
C G F
But I don't miss you half as much,
Am G F
As who you made me think I was.
Am G F
When I could see myself the way you do.
C G F
And I could almost see myself in you.
C G F
I could almost see myself in you.
Final chorus:
G5 F C
And this time I'm not coming down.
Am G5 F
No this time I'm not coming down.
G5 F C
This time I'm not coming down...
...trampoline...
e-----------------
B-----------------
G----------------- x5
D----5------3-----
A--------------3--
E--3---3--1-------
And then the same patter without "...trampoline..." 3x
and on:
e-----
B-----
G-----
D-----
A-----
E--3--
that's it, fellas
-D
