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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Intro + Verse Chorus
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E 022100 F#m7 24222x
A x0222x B x2444x
E/G# 4224xx E 022100
A x0222x
Capo 3rd fret
Riff 1:
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B|--5--4--4--2--2--0--0--------------------|--5--4--4--2--2--0--0-----------------|
G|-----------------------1--1--2--1--2/4~--|-----------------------1--1--2--1—1~--|
D|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
Riff 2:
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|--1---1---1-2--1-----1--2--1--2/4~-|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
[Intro]
- Riff 1 -
E A E/G#
E A E/G#
[Verse 1]
E A E/G#
I want you to know what I forgive you for
E A E/G#
Now that you're all ashes anyway
E A E/G#
Every step into the river pushes you further away
- Riff 2 -
[Verse 2]
E A E/G#
I want you to hear the farm apologize
E A E/G#
For letting you believe you could return
E A E/G#
I want you to dream in all the languages we couldn't learn
- Riff 2 -
[Chorus 1]
F#m7 B E A
I want you to write my name under your name with the year
F#m7 B
I was born and you began to disappear
- Riff 1 -
[Verse 3]
E A E/G#
I want you to watch the generations sprawl
E A E/G#
Constellations in a northern sky
E A E/G#
I want every satellite to circle you when you arrive
- Riff 2 -
[Chorus 2]
F#m7 B E A
I want every highway sign to remember we were here
F#m7 B
I want you to take your time to disappear
- First part of Riff 1 -
[Interlude]
F#m7 B E A
F#m7 B
[Outro]
E A E/G#
I want you to know what I forgive you for
E A E/G#
Now that you're all ashes anyway
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E 022100 F#m7 24222x
A x0222x B x2444x
E/G# 4224xx E 022100
A x0222x
Capo 3rd fret
Riff 1:
e|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
B|--5--4--4--2--2--0--0--------------------|--5--4--4--2--2--0--0-----------------|
G|-----------------------1--1--2--1--2/4~--|-----------------------1--1--2--1—1~--|
D|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------------|--------------------------------------|
Riff 2:
e|-----------------------------------|
B|-----------------------------------|
G|--1---1---1-2--1-----1--2--1--2/4~-|
D|-----------------------------------|
A|-----------------------------------|
E|-----------------------------------|
[Intro]
- Riff 1 -
E A E/G#
E A E/G#
[Verse 1]
E A E/G#
I want you to know what I forgive you for
E A E/G#
Now that you're all ashes anyway
E A E/G#
Every step into the river pushes you further away
- Riff 2 -
[Verse 2]
E A E/G#
I want you to hear the farm apologize
E A E/G#
For letting you believe you could return
E A E/G#
I want you to dream in all the languages we couldn't learn
- Riff 2 -
[Chorus 1]
F#m7 B E A
I want you to write my name under your name with the year
F#m7 B
I was born and you began to disappear
- Riff 1 -
[Verse 3]
E A E/G#
I want you to watch the generations sprawl
E A E/G#
Constellations in a northern sky
E A E/G#
I want every satellite to circle you when you arrive
- Riff 2 -
[Chorus 2]
F#m7 B E A
I want every highway sign to remember we were here
F#m7 B
I want you to take your time to disappear
- First part of Riff 1 -
[Interlude]
F#m7 B E A
F#m7 B
[Outro]
E A E/G#
I want you to know what I forgive you for
E A E/G#
Now that you're all ashes anyway
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