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Plea From A Cat Named Virtute

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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Chords based on a live solo performance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EePmwxNdzY

Verse (palm mute) Chorus (let ring)

E E/A B A E-open E A F#m
e|-----------------------------|----0----0----2----|
B|-----------------------------|----0----2----2----|
G|------------------------1----|----1----2----2----|
D|----6----6----9----7----2----|----2----2----4----|
A|----7----7----9----7----2----|----2----0----4----|
E|---------5----7----5----0----|----0---------2----|

Capo 4th fret

[First Verses]
E
Why don't you ever wanna play
E/A
I'm tired of this piece of string
B
You sleep as much as I do now and you
A E-open
Don't eat much of anything

E
I don't know who you're talking to
E/A
I made a search through every room
B
But all I found was dust that moved
A E-open
'n shadows of the afternoon

[Chorus 1]
E
And listen
A
About those bitter songs you sing
F#m
They're not helping anything
A E
They won't make you strong

[Second Verses]
E
So we should open up the house
E/A
Invite the tabby two doors down
B
You could ask your sister if
A E-open
She doesn't bring her basset hound

E
Asked of things you shouldn't miss
E/A
Tape hiss and the modern man
B
Cold war and card catalogues
A E-open
To come join us if they can

E
For girly drinks and parlour games
E/A
We'll pass around the easy lie
B
Of absolutely no regrets
A E-open
And later maybe you could try

E
To let your losses dangle off
E/A
The sharp edge of a century
B
Talk about the weather or
A E-open
How the weather used to be

[Chorus 2]
E
And I'll cater
A
With all the birds that I can kill
F#m
Let their tiny feathers fill
A
Disappointment

E
Lie down
A
And lick the sorrow from your skin
F#m
Scratch the terror and begin
A
To believe you're

[Outro]

First line Second line Third line Fourth line Fifth line

E F#m B/G# A A/C# E A/A# E Fm F#m A A/C# A/C E A/A# A E
e|---0----2-------------|---------------|----------------------|------------------------|---------|
B|---0----2---------2---|---------------|---0----1----2----2---|------------------------|---------|
G|---1----2---------2---|---------------|---1----1----2----2---|------------------------|----9----|
D|---2----4----4----2---|---2---2---2---|---2----3----4----2---|---2---2---2---2----2---|----9----|
A|---2----4----2----0---|---4---2---1---|---2----3----4----0---|---4---3---2---1----0---|----7----|
E|---0----2----4--------|---------------|---0----1----2--------|------------------------|---------|

E F#m B/G# A
All you ever want to do is drink and watch TV
A/C# E A/A#
And frankly that thing doesn't really interest me
E Fm F#m A
I swear I'm gonna bite you hard and taste your tinny blood
A/C# A/C E A/A# A
If you don't stop the self-defeating lies you've been repeating since the day you brought me home
E
I know you're strong