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American Wife - Rilo Kiley
Tabbed by Alicia Farahmand (alicialuewho@gmail.com)
Standard Tuning
Intro:
A D
e|---------------------------2------
B|---2-2---2-2----2-2------3---3----
G|---2-2---2-2----2-2----2-------2--
D|---2-2---2-2----2-2--0------------
A|-0------2-----4-------------------
E|----------------------------------
Do do do do doooooooooo...
Verses 1-3:
A D
e|---------------------------------------------------2------
B|--------2-2----------2-2-------2-2---------------3---3----
G|--------2-2----------2-2-------2-2-------------2-------2--
D|--------2-2----------2-2-------2-2-----------0------------
A|------0------------2---------4----------------------------
E|----------------------------------------------------------
V1 Losing your brain is that what he said?
V2 But I only play the fool very often
V3 The wind used to come and nearly blow you over
A Bm
e|------------------------------------------------------2--
B|-------2-2-------------2-2-------2-2----------------3----
G|-------2-2-------------2-2-------2-2--------------4------
D|-------2-2-------------2-2----------------------4--------
A|-----0---------------2---------4--------------2----------
E|--------------------------------------------2------------
The flag will still wave even after you're dead
I only bet my heart like a spade
The wind doesn't move down these parts anymore
e|------2--5------1--7--5--1----0--4--0--5--
B|------------------------------------------
G|------------------------------------------
I'll be your A-mer-i-can wife
I like the gam-bel-in' life
And so goes the bar-ter-ing life
F#m D A
e|---------------------------------------------------------------------
B|---------2-2------------2-2-----------------------3-3----------2-2---
G|---------2-2------------2-2-----------------------2-2----------2-2---
D|------------------------------------------------0--------------------
A|-------4--------------4--------------------------------------0-------
E|---------------------------------------------------------------------
Like the eagle perched atop the globe we'll climb up above the smog and
You never know what you're gonna get bet your shoes, keys and glasses
Blood for food then they strap you down you scream, Miami was pretty
D A D A
e|-----------------------------------------------------------
B|----------3-3--------------2-2--------------3-3-------2-2--
G|----------2-2--------------2-2--------------2-2-------2-2--
D|--------0---------------------------------0----------------
A|-------------------------0--------------------------0------
E|-----------------------------------------------------------
Live in blissful ignorance with a dog and a TV set
You'll be barefoot, free from debt blinded and wandering
Before we were bitter
D A D A E
e|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------|----0---
B|----------3-3--------------2-2-----------|---3-3------------2-2--|----0---
G|----------2-2--------------2-2-----------|---2-2------------2-2--|----1---
D|--------0--------------------------------|-0---------------------|----2---
A|-------------------------0---------------|----------------0------|----2---
E|-----------------------------------------|-----------------------|----0---
We’ll eat flesh 'til we're fatter than our [^2nd time only!^] friends
Maybe then you'll be happier then you'll be happier then
before we let our sadness litter the [^2nd time only!^] streets
Interlude: [play all that crap one more time without the singing then...]
Verses 4 & 5: [more of the same! yet slightly different]
A D
e|--------------------------------------------------2------
B|-------2-2----------2-2-------2-2---------------3---3----
G|-------2-2----------2-2-------2-2-------------2-------2--
D|-------2-2----------2-2-------2-2-----------0------------
A|-----0------------2---------4----------------------------
E|---------------------------------------------------------
You offered your father could be he mine
A Bm
e|---------------------------------------------------------2--
B|-------2-2-------------2-2------------2-2--------------3----
G|-------2-2-------------2-2------------2-2------------4------
D|-------2-2-------------2-2-------------------------4--------
A|-----0---------------2--------------4------------2----------
E|-----------------------------------------------2------------
We looked at your family tree and politely declined
e|-----------2--5--1--7--5------1--------0----4--0----5---
B|--------------------------------------------------------
G|--------------------------------------------------------
You have eleven siblings who have ten broken limbs
F#m D A
e|------------------------------------------------
B|-------2-------2-----------3-3------------2-2---
G|-------2-------2-----------2-2------------2-2---
D|-------------------------0----------------------
A|---------4-4-----4-4--------------------0-------
E|------------------------------------------------
Nine divorces and Eight broken hearts and
Seven grand kids and
Six bypass surgeries
Five college degrees
Four are sick, three are well
Two are dead, one’s in jail
No one here moves away
D A E
e|----------------------0---
B|----3-3---------2-2---0---
G|----2-2---------2-2---1---
D|--0-------------------2---
A|--------------0-------2---
E|----------------------0---
No one here moves away
A D
e|-------------------------------------------2------
B|--------2-2-------2-2------2-2-----------3---3----
G|--------2-2-------2-2------2-2---------2-------2--
D|--------2-2-------2-2------2-2-------0------------
A|------0---------2--------4------------------------
E|--------------------------------------------------
Come on to the grave is that what I said?
A Bm
e|--------------------------------------------------2--
B|-------2-2-----2-2------------2-2---------------3----
G|-------2-2-----2-2------------2-2-------------4------
D|-------2-2-----2-2--------------------------4--------
A|-----0-------2--------------4-------------2----------
E|----------------------------------------2------------
my memory fades when I’m drinking in bed
e|------2-5----1---7---5--1---0--4--0--5---
B|-----------------------------------------
G|-----------------------------------------
I miss the so-ber-in' life
F#m D A
e|--------------------------------------------------------------------
B|---------2-2---------------------2-2-----------------3-3------2-2---
G|---------2-2---------------------2-2-----------------2-2------2-2---
D|---------------------------------------------------0----------------
A|-------4-----------------------4----------------------------0-------
E|--------------------------------------------------------------------
The comforter will not come on to me ‘til I'm a fearless faithless
D A D A E
e|-----------------------------|---------------------------|-----|-----|--0--|
B|----------3-3--------2-2-----|---3-3------2-2------------|-----|-----|--0--|
G|----------2-2--------2-2-----|---2-2------2-2------------|-----|-----|--1--|
D|--------0--------------------|-0-------------------------|--%--|--%--|--2--|
A|-------------------0---------|----------0----------------|-----|-----|--2--|
E|-----------------------------|---------------------------|-----|-----|--0--|
Nothing at all cause No one escapes their life
No one escapes the life
No one escapes their life No one
D Dm
e|------2-2-------2-2-------------1-1---------1-1--
B|------3-3-------3-3-------------3-3---------3-3--
G|------2-2-------2-2-------------2-2---------2-2--
D|----0-------------------------0------------------
A|--------------0---------------------------0------
E|-------------------------------------------------
It may sound depressing It's just a life lesson
e|-------------------0--------------------------------------------5
B|---------2-2---------2----------2------0---------3--------5-----5
G|---------2-2-----------2------2------1---------2--------4-------6
D|---------2-2-------2--------4------2---------0--------2---------7
A|-------0--------------------------------------------------------7
E|----------------------------------------------------------------5
In the barterin', gamblin' life I'll be your American wife.
End.
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