Tabs
Band: The Weakerthans
Title: One Great City!
Album: Reconstruction Site
Tabbed by Evan Cooperman ([email protected])
Capo on 4th Fret
Intro
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VERSE 1
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late afternoon, another day is nearly done
a darker gray is breaking through a lighter one
a thousand sharpened elbows in the underground
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that hollow hurried sound
CHORUS 1
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of feet on polished floor
and in the dollar store
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the clerk is closing up
and counting loonies trying not to say
I hate winnipeg
VERSE 2
the driver checks the mirror seven minutes late
the crowded riders restlessness enunciates
the guess who suck the jets were lousy anyway
the same route every day
and in the turning lane
someones' stalled again
he's talking to himself
and hears the price of gas repeat his phrase
I hate winnipeg
BRIDGE
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CHORUS 3
and up above us all
leaning into sky
our golden business boy
will watch the north end die
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and sing i love this town
then let his arcing wrecking ball proclaim
OUTRO
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I Hate Winnipeg
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