Joliet chords by Seven Mary Three

from the album ORANGE AVE.
Transcribed by Jason Leonard

Chords:

  A*
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--2--  --2--  --0--  --0--  --7--  --5--  --4--  --2--
--2--  --0--  --2--  --0--  --7--  --5--  --4--  --2--
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Intro:  0:00- 0:23
G

G

VERSE:  0:24- 1:09

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


Chorus:  1:10- 1:32

  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
A
maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire

1:33- 1:44
G

Verse:  1:45- 2:30

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


Chorus:  2:31- 2:53

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

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

3:18- 3:51  (SOLO & band)
G
B
B
A

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
A
maybe it's the prison or the birth of barbed wire... Joliet

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