Biography:
John K. Samson is a singer-songwriter from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He used to play the bass in the band Propagandhi, and is now the singer & guitarist in The Weakerthans. In 1993 he released a 15 track cassette called Slips and Tangles on Fresh Bread Records. Some of those songs were also on a split CD with the band Painted Thin. In addition to The Weakerthans he has a project with his wife, Christine Fellows, called The Subscription, and he pronounces it like "sore-ee."
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Other songs:
- 17Th St Treatment Centre
- Alpha Adept
- Capital
- Carrie Ends The Call
- Cruise Night
- Fellow Traveller
- Grace General
- Heart Of The Continent
- Highway 1 East
- Highway 1 West
- Letter In Icelandic From The Ninette San
- Longitudinal Centre
- Oldest Oak At Brookside
- Plea From A Cat Named Virtute
- Postdoc Blues
- Prayer For Ruby Elm
- Provincial
- Requests
- Select All Delete
- Stop Error
- Taps Reversed
- The Last And
- Vampire Alberta Blues
- Virtute At Rest
- Vpw 13 Blues
- When I Write My Masters Thesis
- Winter Wheat
- Www Dot Ipetitions Dot Com Slash Petition Slash Rivertonrifle Slash
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Tuning: FFCGCF
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To match tuning, use the first portion of the following
live performance that shows John tuning his guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vU-2XfGDKk
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Verse Pre-Chorus Chorus Bridge Outro
---------- ---------- ------------ ---------- -----------
F 079xxx G 225xxx Bb/D 552xxx G 225xxx Bb 555xxx
D 999xxx Bb 555xxx C/E 774xxx A 445xxx C 777xxx
C 777xxx F 079xxx F 079xxx Bb 555xxx A 445xxx
Bb 555xxx C 777xxx Bb 555xxx C 777xxx C/E 774xxx
C 777xxx F 079xxx
[Verse 1]
F
Rain for the last day that I will be known
D C Bb
The way that I want them to know me
F
Rain for reporters' predictable leads
D C Bb
On the darkening stain of my name
[Pre-Chorus 1]
G Bb F C
Rain like the morning you left with the international brigade
G Bb F
A streak of your face at the glass when the train pulled away
[Chorus 1]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
The aspidistra that refused to die
Bb/D C/E F Bb
A miniature camera in a Cambridge tie
Bb C F Bb
To get that Soviet control to crack a smile
Bb C F
All in our file, my fellow traveller
e|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|---------------|-----------------|
B|--0---x---x--x--x--|--0---x---x--x--x--|---------------|-----------------|
G|--x---9---10-10-10-|--x---9---10-10-10-|---------------|-----------------|
D|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5-5---5-5-5--|--5/5-5---5-5-5--|x2
A|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
E|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh
[Verse 2]
F
Sleep for the telephone's silent receiver
D C Bb
On its beetle-black back in the hall
F
Sleep for the bottle that rolled off my desk
D C Bb
Danced itself out on the floor
[Pre-Chorus 2]
G Bb F C
Sleep for the overturned ashtray splayed across an unmade bed
G Bb F
While I interrogate every word that I ever said
[Chorus 2]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
I fall from buildings into angry air
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Lecture my students in my underwear
Bb C F Bb
But once I was allowed to dream of you instead
Bb C F
My dear defected fellow traveller
e|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|---------------|-----------------|
B|--0---x---x--x--x--|--0---x---x--x--x--|---------------|-----------------|
G|--x---9---10-10-10-|--x---9---10-10-10-|---------------|-----------------|
D|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5-5---5-5-5--|--5/5-5---5-5-5--|
A|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
E|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh
[Bridge]
G
How you booked your final passage
A
With a passport that you paid for with a pair of roller skates
Bb
How you dyed your hair and mustache
C
Put on a mid-Atlantic accent but you couldn't stop the shakes
G
When they asked where you had come from
A
And you muttered, "That's a good one"
Bb
Though you were never really certain
[Chorus 3]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Every umbrella down on Portman Square
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Opens and closes to arraign our fair
Bb C F Bb
Theory of something I can't picture anymore
Bb C G A
A forgery for my fellow traveller
[Outro]
Bb C
I won't wait to see
A C/E
I still I believe in you and me
F
My fellow traveller
-------------------------------------------------------
To match tuning, use the first portion of the following
live performance that shows John tuning his guitar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vU-2XfGDKk
-------------------------------------------------------
Verse Pre-Chorus Chorus Bridge Outro
---------- ---------- ------------ ---------- -----------
F 079xxx G 225xxx Bb/D 552xxx G 225xxx Bb 555xxx
D 999xxx Bb 555xxx C/E 774xxx A 445xxx C 777xxx
C 777xxx F 079xxx F 079xxx Bb 555xxx A 445xxx
Bb 555xxx C 777xxx Bb 555xxx C 777xxx C/E 774xxx
C 777xxx F 079xxx
[Verse 1]
F
Rain for the last day that I will be known
D C Bb
The way that I want them to know me
F
Rain for reporters' predictable leads
D C Bb
On the darkening stain of my name
[Pre-Chorus 1]
G Bb F C
Rain like the morning you left with the international brigade
G Bb F
A streak of your face at the glass when the train pulled away
[Chorus 1]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
The aspidistra that refused to die
Bb/D C/E F Bb
A miniature camera in a Cambridge tie
Bb C F Bb
To get that Soviet control to crack a smile
Bb C F
All in our file, my fellow traveller
e|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|---------------|-----------------|
B|--0---x---x--x--x--|--0---x---x--x--x--|---------------|-----------------|
G|--x---9---10-10-10-|--x---9---10-10-10-|---------------|-----------------|
D|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5-5---5-5-5--|--5/5-5---5-5-5--|x2
A|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
E|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh
[Verse 2]
F
Sleep for the telephone's silent receiver
D C Bb
On its beetle-black back in the hall
F
Sleep for the bottle that rolled off my desk
D C Bb
Danced itself out on the floor
[Pre-Chorus 2]
G Bb F C
Sleep for the overturned ashtray splayed across an unmade bed
G Bb F
While I interrogate every word that I ever said
[Chorus 2]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
I fall from buildings into angry air
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Lecture my students in my underwear
Bb C F Bb
But once I was allowed to dream of you instead
Bb C F
My dear defected fellow traveller
e|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|---------------|-----------------|
B|--0---x---x--x--x--|--0---x---x--x--x--|---------------|-----------------|
G|--x---9---10-10-10-|--x---9---10-10-10-|---------------|-----------------|
D|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5-5---5-5-5--|--5/5-5---5-5-5--|
A|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
E|--0---0---0--0--0--|--0---0---0--0--0--|--2-2---2-2-2--|--2/5-5---5-5-5--|
Ooh ooh ooh-ooh
[Bridge]
G
How you booked your final passage
A
With a passport that you paid for with a pair of roller skates
Bb
How you dyed your hair and mustache
C
Put on a mid-Atlantic accent but you couldn't stop the shakes
G
When they asked where you had come from
A
And you muttered, "That's a good one"
Bb
Though you were never really certain
[Chorus 3]
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Every umbrella down on Portman Square
Bb/D C/E F Bb
Opens and closes to arraign our fair
Bb C F Bb
Theory of something I can't picture anymore
Bb C G A
A forgery for my fellow traveller
[Outro]
Bb C
I won't wait to see
A C/E
I still I believe in you and me
F
My fellow traveller
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