Joliet chords by Seven Mary Three

Chords with lyrics

from the album ORANGE AVE.
Transcribed by Jason Leonard

Chords:

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Intro: 0:00- 0:23
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VERSE: 0:24- 1:09

C majorC
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..."
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It's angry and slick
C majorC
into those letters writes through herself each time
     G+G
that she thinks of him
C majorC
Trips her way down south, into mystery's mouth
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and he follows her there
C majorC
It's what she doesn't say that makes you want to stay
      G+G
and try to comfort her


Chorus: 1:10- 1:32

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I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
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I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like
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maybe a killing went down in your town
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maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire

1:33- 1:44
G+G

Verse: 1:45- 2:30

C majorC
"Joliet," she says, "is the darkest part of a man..."
         G+G
It's shaped like liberty's bell
C majorC
it's cracked and common law, stretched out over it's flaws
       G+G
just like an ink-less well
C majorC
The hanging judge in town records her comments down
       G+G
she saves the crowd the truth
  C majorC
and deals with it herself, fills that hollow well,
       G+G
with nothing left to prove

Chorus: 2:31- 2:53

 B*
I talked to the mountains and streams that pushed through there
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I talked to the trees that had no fruit to bear
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to the colorless people that sat there beneath her
A augmentedA
curled up and stared

2:54- 3:17 (SOLO)
G+G
G MajorG

3:18- 3:51 (SOLO & band)
G+G
BB
B
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Chorus: 3:52- end

 B*
I talked to the cousins of people who knew you
 B*
I asked them the questions they expected to hear, like
B*
maybe a killing went down in your town
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maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire... Joliet

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