Chords for John K. Samson - One Great City, Steven Page Songwriter Panel Part 4 Ships and Dip V

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_ _ I never play an acoustic guitar.
I feel quite unqualified _ for this business.
What are these things here?
They make you feel comfortable.
Really?
[A#] They're little _ switches and things on the side.
_ [N] _ Oh, it's my EQ.
That's the whammy bar.
_ _ I was wondering what that was.
That's my volume right there.
Whammy bar. _
[G#] _ _ _ Well, it's February [D#] in _ Winnipeg.
I mean, it's February everywhere, but_
[N] _ _
_ But in Winnipeg, it's actually different than elsewhere. _ _ _ _
It's _ _ kind of always February in the small_ _ _ _ _
It's, of course, minus probably 40 there right now.
_ _ And it's something we Winnipeggers, I think, carry around with us throughout the year.
There's always a bit of February in us.
_ [B] It's not always a good thing, but it's something that's constant in our lives.
And I [F#] didn't write this song _
[G#] in February, _ but [G] _
as I often am, I was thinking [A#] of it.
Oh, yeah.
_ [F#] _
_ _ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
Late [B] afternoon, another day is nearly done.
_ [C#] _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ _ Darker [B] gray is breaking through a lighter one. _ _ _
[C#] _ _ _ _ [F#] _ A [B] thousand sharpened elbows in the underground.
_ [C#] _ _
_ _ _ _ [F#] _ That hollow, [B] hurried sound.
_ [G#] Feet [F#] on [B] polished floor.
_ [G#m] In [A#] the dollar [B] _ store.
_ [G#] Clerk is [F#]
closing [A#m] up.
_ And counting loonies, [B] trying not to say.
_ _ I _ hate _ Winnipeg. _ _ _
_ [F#] _ The driver [B] checks the mirror seven minutes late.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _
[F#] _ The crowded [B] riders' restlessness _ enunciates.
_ _ [C#] _ _ _
[F#] The _ guests moved [B] up, the gents were lousy [C#] anyway. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[F#] _ Same route [B] every day. _
[G#m] In [A#] the turning [B] lane. _ _
[G#m] _ [F#] Someone's stalled [B] again. _
[G#m] He's talking [D#m] to [A#m] himself. _ _
He hears the price of gas [C#] repeat his [E] phrase.
I [B] _ hate _ _ Winnipeg.
_ _ _ [A#m] _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] Up _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
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_ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ [A#m] with [E] us all.
_ [G#m] _ Leaning [F#] into [E] sky.
_ [G#m] _ Golden [F#] business [B] boy.
_ _ [G#m] _ Watch the [F#] north end [B] die.
_ _ [G#m] Sing I [A#m] love this [C#] town.
_ Then let his arching wrecking ball proclaim. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [G#m] _ _ _ _
[F#] I hate _ _ [A#m] Winnipeg.
[F#] _ _
[B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ I [G] just want to say that song [F] John just played is so [D#] awesome.
It's a good song.
[C#] _ _ _ _ _
[B] _ _ _ [N] It's such a gorgeous development.
It has this thing where it deploys the same phrase three times
and it gets to take on, it starts out like a skeleton of the way that
when you are [F] from a town, which you do hate, [G] no matter who you are,
no matter where you come from, you know [Cm] what it's like to hate [F] your town, you know.
And that's a skeleton of a feeling, [D#] and by the end of the song
it's a walking, breathing human [G] being with all the complexity about how you feel about where you're from.
So, yeah, you are awesome.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _