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If We Were Vampires by Jason Isbell

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Note:  The picking pattern throughout is an alternating quick bass note, high note except for the licks below.

Chords used:
Bm      x 2 4 4 3 2
C       x 3 2 0 1 0
Dsus4   x 0 0 2 3 3
Em/A    0 0 2 0 0 0
G       3 2 0 0 0 3

Intro:
Em/A  Bm  C  Em/A  Bm  C
Em/A  G,  Em/A  G  Dsus4:  the lick is  ----3-0-------------------3-0--------------------
                                        ---------4-0-------------------4-0---------------
                                        --------------2-0-------------------2-0----------
                                        -2----------------------2--------------------2---
                                        -------------------------------------------------
                                        -------------------3----------------------3------

Verse:
             Em/A          Bm                C
It's not the long flowing dress that you're in
        Em/A        Bm           C
Or the light coming off of your skin
             Em/A                       G
The fragile heart you protected for so long
        Em/A                              G   Dsus4
Or the mercy in your sense of right and wrong

Verse:
               Em/A             Bm          C
It's not your hands, searching slow in the dark
         Em/A          Bm           C
Or your nails leaving love's watermark
             Em/A                      G
It's not the way you talk me off the roof
      Em/A                               G  Dsus4
Your questions like directions to the truth

Chorus:
      C                                G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone

Verse:
             Em/A        Bm           C
If we were vampires and death was a joke
        Em/A          Bm          C
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
     Em/A                               G
And laugh at all the lovers and their plans
   Em/A                                 G   Dsus4
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand

Verse:
       Em/A        Bm        C
Maybe time running out is a gift
           Em/A         Bm           C
I'll work hard 'til the end of my shift
   Em/A                         G
To give you every second I can find
     Em/A                            G   Dsus4
 And hope it isn't me who’s left behind

Chorus:
      C                                G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone

Interlude:
Em/A  Bm  C  Em/A  Bm  C
Em/A  G,  Em/A  G  Dsus4:  the lick is  ----3-0-------------------3-0--------------------
                                        ---------4-0-------------------4-0---------------
                                        --------------2-0-------------------2-0----------
                                        -2----------------------2--------------------2---
                                        -------------------------------------------------
                                        -------------------3----------------------3------

Chorus:
      C                                G
It's knowing that this can't go on forever
   C                            G              Dsus4
Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone
  C                             Em/A
Maybe we'll get forty years together
  Dsus4               C                       Em/A  Dsus4
But one day I'll be gone or one day you'll be gone

Outro: