Blind Pilot - Poor Boy Chords & Tabs

 

Poor Boy Chords & Tabs

Blind Pilot Chords & Tabs

Version: 3 Type: Chords

Poor Boy Chords

   
                             Poor Boy - Blind Pilot

By jtzingsheim

Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st Fret

Verse/Chorus
(Alternate these chord lines, listen to the track for help, usually plays the
first line during vocal lines and the second line between vocal lines.)

  C     Cmaj7   Cadd9   Fmaj7
e|0-------0-------0-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------0-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------2-------3-------|
A|3-------3-------3---------------|
E|--------------------------------|

  C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
e|0-------0-------1-------0-------|
B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|
G|0-------0-------2-------2-------|
D|2-------2-------3-------3-------|
A|3-------3-----------------------|
E|--------------------------------|

::Verse 1::

C    Cmaj7
Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7
Why don't you try getting water?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7
Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7
Why don't you try getting sleep?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C Cmaj7
I think

Cadd9        Fmaj7
if one of us is going to suffer

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                  Why shouldn't it be me?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

::Verse 2::

C    Cmaj7
Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7
Your wife is in hard labor

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C              Cmaj7
The rhythm you know 

Cadd9        Fmaj7
Is pulsing and drifting to the grave

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C            Cmaj7
When you come to

          Cadd9     Fmaj7
You'll be asking yourself just one question
[ Tab from: https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/b/blind_pilot/poor_boy_crd_ver_3.html ]
C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                Was I always this way?
C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                Was I always this way?

::Verse 3::

C            Cmaj7
Think back a year

     Cadd9      Fmaj7
When everything stood at the surface

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C               Cmaj7
But bandage your cuts

     Cadd9                 Fmaj7
cause you don't know what swims underneath

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7
Hold tight

    Cadd9      Fmaj7
The bondage of this life is slipping

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                  Why shouldn't it be me?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                  Why shouldn't it be me?

::Bridge::

F               Fm
    When I come back

              C         Em 
You'll be the brightest star

       F    G 
In the black

F                  Fm
    When there are days

                  C           Em         Am        G
That you want the call we're all waiting for

C
Think back

::Final Verse::

C    Cmaj7
Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7
Your wife is in hard labor

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7
Go buy

    Cadd9          Fmaj7
the flowers you'll leave on its grave

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C                 Cmaj7
You went with the goal 

   Cadd9         Fmaj7
of movement, Now one thing is different:

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                  You don't want to change.

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7
                  I don't want to change

C