The Day It Fell Apart chords by Leslie Fish

• Tuning: Standard tuning
• 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.