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Song Of Our So-called Friend by Okkervil River

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"Song of Our So-called Friend" by Okkervil River
Album: Black Sheep Boy
Tabbed by: Brandon Madsen (brandon dot madsen at gmail dot com)

There are two existing tabs up on the site at the time I am posting this, and neither is quite right.
These are the actual chords (not relative to a capo or anything), and as such can be used for any instrument.

VERSE 1:
Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramB minorBm                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Remember when our so-called friend would not call out to you while tumbling loosely out a hole punched through
   Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramA augmentedA                    Chord diagramB minorBm                Chord diagramF# minorF#m
your home? It?s pretty clear, though you could hear, you truly finally knew in time, he?ll tell his tale
           Chord diagramD MajorD
the way he?d like it told.
    Chord diagramF# minorF#m     Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramD MajorD
Now he isn?t on the phone. His story might as well be so.

VERSE 2:
   Chord diagramA augmentedA               Chord diagramB minorBm                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m                Chord diagramD MajorD
Well, loving is as loving does, and I?d say we should know, because we both have loved and lost and are alone.
   Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramB minorBm                    Chord diagramF# minorF#m
Your face?s falling tears, to me they?re lovely and they?re dear, though you don?t love me and it?s clear that
    Chord diagramD MajorD
I will never see you in my arms.

    Chord diagramF# minorF#m       Chord diagramD MajorD     Chord diagramB minorBm             Chord diagramD MajorD
There?s no room in your heart for even this finely-sharpened dart.
 Chord diagramA augmentedA         Chord diagramB minorBm             Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
Although I had started to think there might be hope, it isn?t so.

INSTRUMENTAL INTERLUDE:
Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramB minorBm Chord diagramF# minorF#m Chord diagramD MajorD
Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramB minorBm Chord diagramF# minorF#m Chord diagramD MajorD

BRIDGE:
  Chord diagramF# minorF#m      Chord diagramB minorBm        Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramA augmentedA
So wake up, make up some new song again around the same tune.
     Chord diagramF# minorF#m                    Chord diagramB minorBm
The water cools; the leaves, they fall; the sun, it bends;
                Chord diagramD MajorD       Chord diagramA augmentedA
the summer ends; our so-called friend doesn?t need you.

VERSE 3:
      Chord diagramA augmentedA                  Chord diagramB minorBm               Chord diagramF# minorF#m
So proceed out the door and down the street. December?s lying near, but in the oven?s heat this house is now a
Chord diagramD MajorD   Chord diagramA augmentedA                 Chord diagramB minorBm                 Chord diagramF# minorF#m              Chord diagramD MajorD
home. Sixty days of trips and stays you took to tell me, dear, that you cannot love me because you secretly

still love a stone.
     Chord diagramF# minorF#m         Chord diagramD MajorD        Chord diagramB minorBm            Chord diagramD MajorD
Though I put my lips to your face, trying to push his kiss out of its place...
 Chord diagramA augmentedA          Chord diagramB minorBm           Chord diagramD MajorD          Chord diagramA augmentedA
Although my heart started to race, now it has slowed, I?ll let it go.

INSTRUMENTAL OUTRO:
Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramB minorBm Chord diagramF# minorF#m Chord diagramD MajorD
Chord diagramA augmentedA Chord diagramB minorBm Chord diagramF# minorF#m Chord diagramD MajorD
Chord diagramA augmentedA

(I am ignoring the more ambient outro that continues for 40 more seconds after the song has basically ended)

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