Chords for eTown Finale with Over The Rhine & The Lone Bellow - "Slip Sliding Away" (eTown webisode #437)

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_ _ _ [G] What [C] happened halfway through that?
Sing that, sing the [E] verse.
I know [Am] a man, _ _ he _ _ came [G] from out of [C]
town.
_ _ He [F] wore his [Em] passion for women like [Dm] a crown. _ _ _ _
_ He said [C] it was a pretty _ style.
[Am] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Now [F] I play with some little [D] carny girls, crazy that [G] I may [C] just be.
There we go.
Do that one more time.
I [Am] know a man, _ _ _ he came from my hometown.
_ _ _ He [F] wore his passion [Em] for his woman [Dm] like a thorny crown.
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He [C] said the lowest _ _ _ [Am] I'll ever _ see. _ _ _
My [F] love for you's [Em] _ [Dm] soaring I'm afraid that [G] I [C] may disappear.
_ _ _ Slip [G] sliding away, _ [C] _ _ slip [Am] sliding away.
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You [F] know the nearer your destination [Dm] the more [G] you slip sliding [C] away. _ _ _ _ _
[Am] I know a woman _ _ _ _
[G] _ became a wife.
[C] _ _ _
[F] These are the very words she [Dm] uses to describe her life.
_ _ [C] She said a good _ day _ _ [Am] ain't got no rain.
_ She [F] said a bad [Em] day is when a [Dm] lion bear thinks of things [C] that might have been.
_ _ Slip sliding away, _ _ slip [Am] sliding away.
_ _ _ _ [F] You know the [Em] nearer your destination [A] the more you slip [C] sliding away.
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I [Am] know a father _ who _ had [C] a son. _ _ _ _
He [F] longed to tell him all the reasons [Dm] for the things he'd done.
[A] _ _ [D] He [C] came a long way _ _ _ just [Am] to explain. _
_ _ _ He [F] kissed this boy as [Em] he lay sleeping [Dm] then he turned around and headed [C] home again. _
_ _ Slip sliding away, _ _ _ slip sliding [Am] away. _
_ You _ [F] know the nearer [Em] your destination [Dm] the more you slip [C] sliding away.
_ _ _ _ [A] God only knows.
_ _ _ [C] God makes his plan.
_ The [F] _ [C] information's unavailable [Dm] to the modern man. _ _
We [C] work in our jobs, _ _ _ [Am] collect our debt. _ _
We [F] leave with light in [C] the [Dm] rain when it's black but [G] slip [C] sliding away.
_ _ Slip [G]
sliding away, _ _ slip [Am] sliding away. _ _ _ _
You know [F] the nearer your [C] destination the [Dm] more you slip [C] sliding away.
_ _ _ Slip sliding away, _ _ slip sliding away.
_ _ You _ know the nearer your [B] destination the more you slip [G] sliding away.
_ _ [C] Slip sliding away, _ _ slip sliding [Am] away. _ _ _ _
You [F] know the nearer your destination [Dm] the more [G] you slip [C] sliding away. _ _ _ _
You [F] know the nearer your destination the [Dm] more you [G] slip sliding _ _ _ [F] away.
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