Augie March – Just Passing Through Capo 2 (Glenn Richards does like that capo 2) Standard Tuning INTRO G--Em--G--Em--G--Em--C--Am-Em- G Em At ten o'clock is when I rise from my grave G Em And cast my eyes over the ideas that I couldn't save G Em Become regret and break upon me now wave after wave C Am Em Bid me remember what I done G Em A strange appeal is in the magazine zodiac G Em What inspiration are the women of the dog track G Em Now there's a wheel and there's a well and there's a big rack C Am Em The perfumed killers from the north C Am Em Collect each Saturday to brood and sally forth C Em I don't know enough to know not to show it C Em Or tell it like I know more C Em I'm sorry, baby, but your roving poet's C Am Em Just a bank balance troubadour C Am Em Who can't sing the song anymore C----Em----C----Em---- G Em At ten o'clock is when you open up your apple eyes G Em And drink a cup into the one of earth the other skies G Em And out your mouth a tiny burst of tiny baby cries C Am Em Oh where, oh where, oh where did you get into to? G Em A strange appeal unto a pocket where a body lay G Em I saw a dream of such a couple only yesterday G Em When the one did leave the other went to war Enola Gay C Am Em She had a halo, was a heroine C Am Em She had a halo, was a heroine C Em Well, I know I'm not loathe to show it C Em I smile like a bandsaw C Em I'm sorry, darling, but your roving poet's C Am Em Just a footloose man-whore C Am Em Who can't talk the talk anymore C Em We're just passing through C Em Just passing through G Em At ten o'clock is when I rise from my grave G Em And cast my eyes over the ideas that I couldn't save G Em Become regret and break upon me now wave after wave C Am Em Bid me remember what I done G Em When time doesn't tear you pay a fee to make it rip G Em The ditch witch, the back hoe, the bobcat, the tip G Em Soil from the hillock spilling over on that solemn lip C Am Em It covers up the cedar mirror C Am Em Do you ever see your weakness any clearer? C Em We were winding up the road to the site C Em With the windows down and the cigarettes alight C Em Singing some rubbish about, "My soul's alright" C Am Em I didn't know what I could do [repeat x2] C Am Em It's just you and I, some other guy, forever passing through. C Em We're just passing through (Like a gall stone) C Em Just passing through (Like a rat through a snake) C Em Just passing through (Little rubbish through a rake) C Em Just passing through D--C-- [Incomprehensible] C--Em-- [repeat as necessary]