Blind Pilot – Poor Boy chords ver. 3

                             Poor Boy - Blind Pilot

By jtzingsheim

Tuning: Standard
Capo: 1st Fret

Verse/Chorus
(Alternate these chord lines, listen to the track for help, usually plays the
first line during vocal lines and the second line between vocal lines.)

  C     Cmaj7   Cadd9   Fmaj7e|0-------0-------0-------0-------|B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|G|0-------0-------0-------2-------|D|2-------2-------2-------3-------|A|3-------3-------3---------------|E|--------------------------------|

  C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7e|0-------0-------1-------0-------|B|1-------0-------3-------1-------|G|0-------0-------2-------2-------|D|2-------2-------3-------3-------|A|3-------3-----------------------|E|--------------------------------|

::Verse 1::

C    Cmaj7Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7Why don't you try getting water?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7Why don't you try getting sleep?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C Cmaj7I think

Cadd9        Fmaj7if one of us is going to suffer

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                  Why shouldn't it be me?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

::Verse 2::

C    Cmaj7Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7Your wife is in hard labor

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C              Cmaj7The rhythm you know 

Cadd9        Fmaj7Is pulsing and drifting to the grave

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C            Cmaj7When you come to

          Cadd9     Fmaj7You'll be asking yourself just one question

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                Was I always this way?
C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                Was I always this way?

::Verse 3::

C            Cmaj7Think back a year

     Cadd9      Fmaj7When everything stood at the surface

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C               Cmaj7But bandage your cuts

     Cadd9                 Fmaj7cause you don't know what swims underneath

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7Hold tight

    Cadd9      Fmaj7The bondage of this life is slipping

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                  Why shouldn't it be me?

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                  Why shouldn't it be me?

::Bridge::

F               Fm    When I come back

              C         Em You'll be the brightest star

       F    G In the black

F                  Fm    When there are days

                  C           Em         Am        GThat you want the call we're all waiting for

CThink back

::Final Verse::

C    Cmaj7Poor boy

Cadd9         Fmaj7Your wife is in hard labor

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C    Cmaj7Go buy

    Cadd9          Fmaj7the flowers you'll leave on its grave

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7

C                 Cmaj7You went with the goal 

   Cadd9         Fmaj7of movement, Now one thing is different:

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                  You don't want to change.

C     Cmaj7     Dm    Fmaj7                  I don't want to change

C