Maybe chords by Dan Reeder

Capo 4th fret
(There's another one posted on the site but this one is more complete and with
precise sync of chords and lyrics)

[Verse]
   G
The first guy I knew who died I can't remember his name
   C
the tenth grade started he just never came again
G
 all his friends sat around and cried
   D
for a day or two

G
You can say what you want about immortal soul
   C
when that guy died it left a hole
    G
it was my first clue
   D             G
that when they're gone they're gone

[Chorus]
    C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
     D                  G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C                G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D                             G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G
Me and Stevie Gibson used to walk home from school
C
he used to have this little turn around rule
    G
if you turn around the one way gotta turn around the other way or
   D
it's bad luck

G
He went out rafting on the river
         C
the river went around and the raft went around
         G           D
and his luck got all wound up and he drowned
      G
and he was gone

[Chorus]
    C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
     D                  G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C                 G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D                             G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]

G
Two weeks after Dieter died you could call him on the phone
C
and he would tell you that he's not home
    G
and it gave you an eerie feeling even though you knew
        D
it was just an answering machine

G
'Cause somewhere deep inside you know
    C
that they don't come back when they go
   G        D
and he had gone and when they're gone
     G
they're gone

[Chorus]
    C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D                 G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C                G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D                             G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
G
My mother died in intensive care
     C
we were sitting around singing on folding chairs
   G
when I got the feeling
           D
somebody wasn't there

G
Well I counted noses but it came out right
   C
the doctors said she died that night
    G          D
but I felt that hole and I knew that
     G
she was gone

[Chorus]
    C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D                 G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C                 G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
   D                            G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone

[Verse]
  G
I looked up death in the dictionary one day
     C
just to see what the dictionary had to say
       G
it's the complete and irreversible cessation of
   D
life functions

G
Which is not very poetic but it's precise and clean
  C
and if you analyze it what that means is
G         D
when they're gone
     G
they're gone

[Chorus]
    C
Maybe Jesus beat that rap we're not sure
    G
maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
      D                 G
or maybe you'll come back some day as a king prawn

C                G
Maybe angels come and take you away to heaven or the other way
  D                             G
but from down here it appears that when they're gone they're gone