Best For The Best Solo Tab by Josh Ritter

Best For The Best tab by Josh Ritter

Solo Guitar Tab

[INTRO:]

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Accuracy Rating: - Votes: -

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[VERSE 1:]

    Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times
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   She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes
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   Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind
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And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind
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[VERSE 2:]

 I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand
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They say working?s best ?cause poverty is hell on a man
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 Now I ride a lazy river through the Mississippi fan
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And if the best is for the best then the best can be damned
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[Break 1:]

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[VERSE 3:]

 I spent a few years on the Queen of Spain
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 She was a leaky little boat that went up in flames
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   When the boiler blew some people started naming names
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But if the best is for the best I guess the best is to blame
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[VERSE 4:]

   I spent a few more as the Cairo Crown
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   I was a heavyweight wrestler in the Midwest towns
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But I was lonesome for a girl who could pin me down
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They say the best is for the best but that's not what I've found
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[Break 2:]

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[VERSE 5:]

   Now I listen to my sweetheart and I listen to my thirst
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  I don't spend time listening to other people's words
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   Sometimes they're right most times the reverse
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They say the best is for the best when the best is for the worse
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[VERSE 6:]

   Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times
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  She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes
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    Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind
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And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind
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[Ending:]

  Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times
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   [Slowing down..........]
    Once I knew a girl in the hard    hard times
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| h   Hammer-on
| p   Pull-off
| /   Slide up

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