The Day It Fell Apart chords by Leslie Fish
Guitar chords with lyrics
Contributed by DON CZARSKI
- Difficulty: Beginner 👶
SONG: THE DAY IT FELL APART
ARTIST: LESLIE FISH
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/gYG2tF4iObM
TAB BY: DON CZARSKI
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THE DAY IT FELL APART
LESLIE FISH
INTRO:
Am G Am G Am G G Am
VERSE:
Am C G Em
Just a little general hospital, in a little factory town.
Em G Am D
The board put me in charge for mainly keeping prices down.
C F G Em
I hadn`t touched a patient since 1982,
Am F Em Am
But the day of the explosion I remembered what to do.
F Am G E At eleven in the morning, we all heard the factory blow. Am F D E The blast took out the windows, and the shrapnel fell like snow. F G Em Am We could get no help from out of town for half a day or more. F D G Am We had near a thousand casualties and beds for ninety-four. CHORUS: Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE: Am C G Em It was worse than combat medicine; supplies were draining fast. Em G Am D Bandages ran out and antiseptics wouldn`t last. C F G Em I took all the able-bodied I could catch inside the door Am F Em Am And made them help the doctors to go scrounge supplies and more. F Am G E I invented laws to tell them saying in such emergency Am F D E Forget your usual job and boss, your orders come from me. F G Em Am I sent the cops to commandeer anything in reach: F D G Am Food or disinfectant cloth or alcohol or bleach. CHORUS: Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE: Am C G Em The janitor ran cleanup squad, the cook maintained supplies, Em G Am D The garbageman removed the ones who died before our eyes. C F G Em The clerks burned all our papers to boil water on the fire Am F Em Am For sterilizing instruments, as the body count went higher. F Am G Em A local healthfood herbalist brought everything he had. Am F D E The painkillers were useful, and the poultices weren`t bad. F G Em Am A smack and cocaine pusher handed us his whole supply. F D G Am The quality was lousy, but a few more didn`t die. CHORUS: Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE: Am C G Em We did triage in the parking lot, ranked minor, major, grave. Em G Am D A sad-eyed fireman gave the stroke to those we couldn`t save. C F G Em Then sometime in the chaos, a director wandered in Am F Em Am To tell us we were breaking rules, what trouble we`d be in. F Am G Em But if we`d swear the factory was not the fire`s cause, Am F D E And the harm was accidental, he`d forget the broken laws. F G Em Am The staff sneaked up and grabbed him, and tied him to a door. F D G Em Am Am Am He gave them blood transfusions `till he hadn`t any more. INSTRUMENTAL: (Play VERSE chords) C G Em Em G Am D C F G Em Am F Em Am Am F Am G Em Am F D E F G Em Am Am F D G Am CHORUS: Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am Am Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. VERSE: Am C G Em When that day was over, and we`d saved all that we could, Em G Am D We saw that law and politics would hang us where we stood. C F G E We`d saved eight hundred lives but shattered all authority. Am F Em Am I told them, `People, save yourselves, put all the blame on me.` F Am G Em I took my books and instruments, and a few supplies beside, Am F D E Packed my car and ran away to open countryside. F G Em Am So now I live an outlaw, condemned by righteous men, F D G Am But for all the lives I saved that day ... I`d do it all again. CHORUS: Am G Am G And can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am We all found out the answer on the day it fell apart. Am G Am G Can you keep your head, your backbone, or your heart? Am G Am Am Am You`ll all found out the answer on the day it falls apart.
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