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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Chorus Verse
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D xx023x D xx023x
D/F# 2x023x D/F# 2x023x
D/G# 4x023x D/G 3x023x
D/A x0023x Em 02200x
G 3x003x
A x0222x
Capo 5th fret
[Chorus 1]
D D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
[Verse 1]
D D/F#
And it didn't take long, for the words to slow
D/G D
Roll over the gravel shoulder, thump into the ditch
D/F# D/G D
Engine cut, battery dying
Em D/F#
The station metastasizing
G A
Tumours of evangelists and ads for vinyl siding
D D/F#
The city's some cheap EQ with the mids pushed up
D/G D
In the one long note of wheat
[Chorus 2]
D D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far
[Outro solo]
e|-----2-----2---0----|-----2-----2---0----|-----2-----2---0--------|
B|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------3~--|
G|--/2-----2---2---0--|--/2-----2---2---0--|--/2-----2---2---2--2~--|
D|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------0~--| x2
A|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------|
E|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------|
Chorus Verse
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D xx023x D xx023x
D/F# 2x023x D/F# 2x023x
D/G# 4x023x D/G 3x023x
D/A x0023x Em 02200x
G 3x003x
A x0222x
Capo 5th fret
[Chorus 1]
D D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
[Verse 1]
D D/F#
And it didn't take long, for the words to slow
D/G D
Roll over the gravel shoulder, thump into the ditch
D/F# D/G D
Engine cut, battery dying
Em D/F#
The station metastasizing
G A
Tumours of evangelists and ads for vinyl siding
D D/F#
The city's some cheap EQ with the mids pushed up
D/G D
In the one long note of wheat
[Chorus 2]
D D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far to walk to anywhere from here
D/F# D/G# D/A D
Too far
[Outro solo]
e|-----2-----2---0----|-----2-----2---0----|-----2-----2---0--------|
B|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------3~--|
G|--/2-----2---2---0--|--/2-----2---2---0--|--/2-----2---2---2--2~--|
D|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------0~--| x2
A|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------|
E|--------------------|--------------------|------------------------|
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