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Westbound Bart

John Craigie

Chord: Principal (acoustic and electric guitars)
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key: Bm
E|---3--3--3---3-----------|
B|---3--3--3---3-----------|
G|-------------------------|
D|-------------2-----------|
A|-------------2-----------|
E|---3--2--0---------------|

Chords:
F# xx4320
Em 022033
A  x02230


[Intro]
D
Oh on the Westbound Bart, dove under water and
G       Em         G          Em
my ears popped and, your eyes watered
G          Em                A
and mascara ran down your face

[Verse 1]
D
And you looked at me from three rows away
G       Em    G                      Em            A
As if to say, please stop staring at me and so I did

D
And you got off at 16th and Mission and
G     Em   G                                   Em
I did too, I didn't want it to seem like I was following you
G                          Em                 A
It was the same stop I was getting off, I swear

D
And you walked on down the street, and I walked behind
G                          Em          G             Em
But you kept on making the same turns, I was gonna make
G                 Em         G            Em                A
Till finally you stepped in, the same bar that I was going to

D
And it was tuesday night karaoke
G                      Em  G                         Em
And I sang Lay, Lady, Lay, with the funny voice and all
G                          Em   G                    Em
And you sang Bohemian Rhapsody, and everybody sang along
G                    Em  G                          Em                      A
Especially on that part, That says I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

[Harmonica]
D G Em G Em G Em A

[Verse 2]
D
And when you were done, and the crowd around you dispersed
G              Em      G                  Em           A
I went up to tell you, just what a great job you had done

D
You said I wonder if when Freddie Mercury
G                    Em  G                          Em
Wrote Bohemian Rhapsody, if he knew it was going to be
G              Em          A
The ultimate song for karaoke

[Bridge]
F#                      G
And I said "what about American Pie?"
             F#     G
And you said "fuck American Pie"
F#      G          Em         A       F#                     G
Our generation can not identify with drove my chevy to the levee
F#                        G         Em                                      A
It ain't nothing when compared to I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all

[Harmonica]
D G Em G Em G Em A

[Verse 3]
D
You said well that was a great version of Lay, Lady, Lay
G                         Em  G                               Em                       A
With the funny voice and all, Back from Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline days if I do recall

D
I said yeah I don't normally do this karaoke thing
         G                        Em    G                     Em
But if I do, I either sing that song or everybody must get stoned
          G                           Em                   A
Rainy Day Women number twelve and thirty-five(technically that's what that songs called)

D
And you said yeah what's with that song title, whats with the 12 and 35
            G        Em    G                 Em                            G                  Em
I said well 12 times 35 is four hundred and twenty, and you know what they say about four twenty
                          G                    Em
But maybe that's just the math major in me talking
       G              Em              A
I dont know what it means, It just does

D
But girl you know I used to roam around
G              Em   G             Em
Play my own guitar, Sing my own songs
     G               Em                     A
It's been a while since I've been on the road

D
See I've lost my muse, and I have not written a song
   G               Em     G                 Em
In about a year or so, Im taking a little break
   G                      Em             A
My friends call it retirement I don't know

D
But just today, the most amazing thing happened
   G                   Em     G          Em
I saw something beautiful and I felt a spark
     G           Em       G            Em          A
Of a brand new song, That I have not felt in so long

[Bridge]
        F#              G          F#                 G
And you said Sing it to me, I said it's not ready to sing
        F#      G         Em           A
Because all I have is the very first line
            F#                      G                         F#           G
She said if you don't sing me that first line now, there will never be a second line
Em                                 A
Give me what you got boy or else go home

I said okay, here goes


[Chorus]
D
Oh on the Westbound Bart, dove under water and
G       Em         G          Em
my ears popped and, your eyes watered
G          Em                A
and mascara ran down your face
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