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Frontier Ruckus is an American folk-rock band from Michigan. The project is centered on the lyrically intensive songs of Matthew Milia, and was formed by Milia and banjo player David Winston Jones while living in Metro Detroit. The band released its debut full-length record, The Orion Songbook, through Quite Scientific Records in November, 2008. In February, 2009, it was announced that Frontier Ruckus had joined North Carolina-based label Ramseur Records.
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Abigail
Frontier Ruckus
Way Upstate & The Crippled summer, pt. 1
[Verse]
D
Abigail, the shore is frozen,
G F#m
Our tar trails have been bulldozin' down
Bm
Your sharpened frown,
E A A/G
Once had me possessed
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
e|-0-----3-2p0---|
B|---3s5-------3-|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|
D Cadd9 G (walkdown into verse)
[Verse]
D
Do you recall the crippled summer?,
G
Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
F#m Bm
And oh how I loved their ways
E A A/G
When Leland's haze still lingered
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
On my shadow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
Your brother he didn't have to die,
G
Your mother she didn't have to cry
F#m Bm
Your father didn't have to ask why
E A A/G
summer was on your chest
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
As your eyes glow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
All our drugstore lawns blew cool so fast,
G
The mill was never built to last
F#m Bm
The tort'rous thrill of sweating grass
E A A/G
Is this town's only sorrowed
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
Trampled blanket
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And if I was branded to your foyer
G
Through passing carpenters and lawyers
F#m Bm
Agrarians and God's own soldiers
E A A/G
I would never make it
e|-----------------0-|-----------------3-|-----------------0-|-------------------2-0-|
B|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-------------------3-2-|
G|-----------------1-|-----------------0-|-----------------1-|-------------------4-2-|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-----0-|-2s4-2p0---0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-------4-2-|
A|-----------------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2---2-0-2-2-0-|
E|-------------0-0-0-|-------------3-3-3-|-------------0-0-0-|-------------------x-x-|
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2p0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
[Bridge]
G A
Do you still dream of dangerous hotels
F#m Bm
Wrapped in glares and daffodil smells
G Bm Bb A
With your barefeet buried in weeds?
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
I still dream of snarled backyards
F#m Bm
And being chased through nighttime's discards
G Bm Bb A
Where my fence reddens, rusts, and bleeds
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
And the curbs are haunted by the killers
F#m Bm
Of memories of your back pillars
G Bm Bb A
Where nothing wakens as it seems
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
All our rooms are hopeful mornings
F#m Bm
Left like tombs when nights are swarming
G Bm Bb A
And branching feathers fan our dreams
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
C A
And your star was the saddest symbol
F#m Bm
Flickered with your mother's thimble
G A
Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
F#m Bm
Beautiful inside the muggy
G Bm Bb A
Ashamed of our bodies in the stream
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|-2s4s2-0---0---------------------------------|
A|---------2---1-1s3s1-0---2-2s4s5s2p0---------|
E|-----------------------3-------------2s5p0-0-|
[Verse]
D
Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just like yours
G
And if I had a choice I'd do my chores
F#m Bm
And my work would dumbfound
E A A/G
The restlessness found in you
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And no one else could understand the truth
G
Of the soil burning back to youth
F#m Bm
It's just something that we found
E A A/G
But now it all thaws damp around you
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And the streets are dry and bare, but they're humming
G F#m
The rooftops where the air stops coming down
Bm
To listen for the sound
E A A/G
Of the tests that surround you
e|-------------------------x-3-|
B|-------------------------x-3-|
G|-------------------------x-3-|
D|-2s4-2-2s5-4-4s7-5-5s8-7-x-5-|
A|-------------------------x-5-|
E|-------------------------x-3-|
Abigail
[Outro]
switch to Capo 3
D
I said, "Abigal the shore is frozen!"
G F#m
Our tar trails, they're all bulldozen now
Bm E
Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
They're so shrilling, and night-smoke tarry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
You should spill them into the starry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D
They are children, and no one's sorry.
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| x Dead note
| p Pull off
| s Slide
************************************
Frontier Ruckus
Way Upstate & The Crippled summer, pt. 1
[Verse]
D
Abigail, the shore is frozen,
G F#m
Our tar trails have been bulldozin' down
Bm
Your sharpened frown,
E A A/G
Once had me possessed
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
e|-0-----3-2p0---|
B|---3s5-------3-|
G|---------------|
D|---------------|
A|---------------|
E|---------------|
D Cadd9 G (walkdown into verse)
[Verse]
D
Do you recall the crippled summer?,
G
Your fam'ly all was in deep slumber
F#m Bm
And oh how I loved their ways
E A A/G
When Leland's haze still lingered
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
On my shadow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
Your brother he didn't have to die,
G
Your mother she didn't have to cry
F#m Bm
Your father didn't have to ask why
E A A/G
summer was on your chest
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
As your eyes glow
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
All our drugstore lawns blew cool so fast,
G
The mill was never built to last
F#m Bm
The tort'rous thrill of sweating grass
E A A/G
Is this town's only sorrowed
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
Trampled blanket
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And if I was branded to your foyer
G
Through passing carpenters and lawyers
F#m Bm
Agrarians and God's own soldiers
E A A/G
I would never make it
e|-----------------0-|-----------------3-|-----------------0-|-------------------2-0-|
B|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-----------------0-|-------------------3-2-|
G|-----------------1-|-----------------0-|-----------------1-|-------------------4-2-|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-----0-|-2s4-2p0---0-----2-|-2s4-2p0---0-------4-2-|
A|-----------------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2-------2-|---------2---2-0-2-2-0-|
E|-------------0-0-0-|-------------3-3-3-|-------------0-0-0-|-------------------x-x-|
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2p0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
[Bridge]
G A
Do you still dream of dangerous hotels
F#m Bm
Wrapped in glares and daffodil smells
G Bm Bb A
With your barefeet buried in weeds?
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
I still dream of snarled backyards
F#m Bm
And being chased through nighttime's discards
G Bm Bb A
Where my fence reddens, rusts, and bleeds
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
And the curbs are haunted by the killers
F#m Bm
Of memories of your back pillars
G Bm Bb A
Where nothing wakens as it seems
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
G A
All our rooms are hopeful mornings
F#m Bm
Left like tombs when nights are swarming
G Bm Bb A
And branching feathers fan our dreams
[Riff 2]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2P0---0-|
A|---------2---|
E|-------------|
C A
And your star was the saddest symbol
F#m Bm
Flickered with your mother's thimble
G A
Pitiful and sunsoaked soggy
F#m Bm
Beautiful inside the muggy
G Bm Bb A
Ashamed of our bodies in the stream
e|---------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------|
D|-2s4s2-0---0---------------------------------|
A|---------2---1-1s3s1-0---2-2s4s5s2p0---------|
E|-----------------------3-------------2s5p0-0-|
[Verse]
D
Ah but spring's dumbed voice is just like yours
G
And if I had a choice I'd do my chores
F#m Bm
And my work would dumbfound
E A A/G
The restlessness found in you
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And no one else could understand the truth
G
Of the soil burning back to youth
F#m Bm
It's just something that we found
E A A/G
But now it all thaws damp around you
[Riff 1]
e|-------------|
B|-------------|
G|-------------|
D|-2s4-2-0h2-0-|
A|-------------|
E|-------------|
D Cadd9
[Verse]
D
And the streets are dry and bare, but they're humming
G F#m
The rooftops where the air stops coming down
Bm
To listen for the sound
E A A/G
Of the tests that surround you
e|-------------------------x-3-|
B|-------------------------x-3-|
G|-------------------------x-3-|
D|-2s4-2-2s5-4-4s7-5-5s8-7-x-5-|
A|-------------------------x-5-|
E|-------------------------x-3-|
Abigail
[Outro]
switch to Capo 3
D
I said, "Abigal the shore is frozen!"
G F#m
Our tar trails, they're all bulldozen now
Bm E
Your bygone sounds are cidada-bound,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
They're so shrilling, and night-smoke tarry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D Cadd9
You should spill them into the starry,
A A/G [Riff 1] D
They are children, and no one's sorry.
************************************
| h Hammer-on
| x Dead note
| p Pull off
| s Slide
************************************
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