the GBV's songbook

name: The Finest Joke is Upon You
album: Mag Earwhig!
date: 1997
author(s): Robert Pollard
© 1997 Needmore song (BMI)

chords
C1  3333xx
C7  332000
C7* 322xxx
F#  244322
F   133211
C#  x46664
Dm  x57765
C   x35553

riffs:
  (1)             (2)
D------0-----0---------0-----0---
A----0-----0-----0---0-----0-----
E--2-----2-----2---1-----1-----1-

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C1 C7  -x2-
C1
                     C7         C1
Mother feeling your hand-eye
                   C7           C1
Believe you and I did then
                          C7        C1
And mother-release every bad seed
                            C7
The geese are leaving the trees

(1)
  (2)                C7*   F#>F
Exposed to winter's cold
                               C1
They waited too long - But we too
       C7        C1                 C7
Exaggerated and now take the cake away
        C1                     C7
It's a long song and I can't play it
  F#           F                    C7*
So give me a grip now collector of bones
(2)
(1)         C7*
Worlds of smoke
   (2)
Distorted mirror broken
(1)                      C7*
Paradise is open but I choke
C# Dm                        F                C
   One of these days when I see through the smoke
  Dm                   F       C
There'll be the day I get the joke


C1 C7  -x4 with solo-

(1)
  (2)                C7*   F#>F
Exposed to winter's cold
                               C1
They waited too long - But we too
       C7        C1                 C7
Exaggerated and now take the cake away
        C1                     C7
It's a long song and I can't play it
  F#           F                    C7*
So give me a grip now collector of bones
 (2)  (1)   C7*
Worlds of smoke
   (2)
Distorted mirror broken
(1)                      C7*
Paradise is open but I choke
C# Dm                        F                C
   One of these days when I see through the smoke
  Dm                   F       C
There'll be the day I get the joke

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originally tabbed by: Mike Ingenthron.