Down From Above

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Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 23:58:28 -0800
From: Adam Gaverluk 

 
To: guitar@olga.net
Subject: CRD: down_from_above.crd by Moxy Fruvous

Down From Above
Written and recorded by Moxy Fruvous
>From the album ?Wood? (WEA CD-10616, 1995)
Transcribed by Adam Gaverluk (agaverluk@wwdc.com)

Capo 2nd fret

Intro:Am (4 bars)

(Verse)

 Am          
 Dm       
 Am           
 F         
 G        
 Dm
Your mother made you cry when she told you about the womb


 G       
 E      
 Am
And how people die.


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 G
Watching over you when you were young smiling as you learned


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 E           
 Am
to crawl.  You don?t know her at all.


(Chorus)

 Am     
 F     
 C               
 E    
 Am
It?s a dirty job but they?re very suave

      
 F       
 C             
 E     
 Am
Jesus high on wine drinking turpentine


(Verse)

 Am                    
 Dm   
 Am      
 F        
 G        
 Dm
Daddy?s voice like an intercom connected to a hidden room


 G           
 E     
 Am
Were yellow roses bloom


 Am                   
 Dm     
 Am           
 F
A sacred mountain near Peterborough where clouds paint a


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 Dm             
 E         
 Am
picture so calm that they swallowed mom.


(Chorus)

 Am     
 F     
 C               
 E    
 Am
It?s a dirty job but they?re very suave

      
 F       
 C            
 E     
 Dm
Jesus high on wine weeping turpentine


 Dm                           
 Am
What are they doing in there?  Have they got guns?


         
 F          
 C        
 Dm
Make you run up and down the same hill


 E                      
 Am
And they?ll break your will.


(Guitar solo)-repeat verse section 2x


(Verse)

 Am               
 Dm           
 Am            
 F
Was it Christmas or groundhog day when your friends turned

   
 G   
 Dm  
 G        
 E            
 Am
to shadows and they dragged you away.


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 Am   
 F              
 G
Tell nobody that you?ve been here don?t breath a word that?s

     
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 G                   
 E       
 Am
been said. Now there?s a scar(whispered)upon your forehead.


(Chorus)

 Am     
 F     
 C               
 E    
 Am
It?s a dirty job but they?re very suave

      
 F       
 C            
 E     
 Dm
Jesus high on wine weeping turpentine


 Dm                           
 Am
What are they doing in there?  Have they got guns?


 Dm                  
 Am                      
 E
Whether Mt. Pinutubo or the threat of God?s love

         
 F         
 C                
 Dm
There?ll always be something that?s raining


 E         
 Am
Down from above (4x total)


 E         
 Am
Na na na na na na (fade to end)