Chords for Maybe - Dan Reeder

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_ _ _ _ This is Maybe by Dan Reeder.
Song at a John Prine concert at the opening act.
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Played this [G#m] song.
[Gm] Yeah, it's one of his songs.
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First guy who died and you can't remember his [E] name
When third grade started he just never [B] came again
He sat around and cried for [F#] a day or two _
[B] You can say what you want about a mortal [E] soul
When that guy died and left a [B] hole in the slum
But the thought first [F#] blew that when they're [B] gone, they're gone _ _
[E] Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not [B] sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is [F#] pure
Maybe you'll come back some day as [B] a king from _ _
_ [E] Maybe angels come to take you [B] away
To heaven or the other way
[F#] But from down here it appears when they're [B] gone, they're gone _
_ _ Me and Stevie Gibson used to walk home from [E] school
He used to have this weird turnaround rule
[B] You turn around one way, you have to turn around the other [F#] way
Bad luck, he [B] went a-rappin' on the river
And the river went around [E] and the raft went around
And his luck got all [B] wound up
[F#] And he drowned and he [B] was gone _
[E] Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is [F#] pure
Maybe you'll come back some day as [B] a king from _
_ [E] Maybe angels come to take you [B] away
To heaven or the other way
[F#] But from down here it appears when they're [B] gone, they're gone _
_ Two weeks after Dieter died you could call him on the [E] phone
And he would tell you that he's not [B] home
You could hear him feelin' even though you knew
[F#] Just an answering machine
[B] Cause somewhere deep inside you know
[E] They don't come back when they [B] go
And he had gone [F#] and when they're [B] gone, they're _ gone
_ [E] Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not [B] sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is [F#] pure
Maybe you'll come back some day as a bug [B] in a lawn _
_ _ [E] Maybe angels come to take you [B] away
To heaven or the other [F#] way
But from down here it appears when they're [B] gone, they're gone _
_ _ My mother died in intensive [E] care
We were sittin' around singin' on folding chairs
[B] When I got feelin' that somebody [F#] wasn't there _ _
_ [B] Well I counted noses but it came out [E] right
And the doctor said she died that [B] night
But I felt that whole [F#] left knew that she [B] was gone _ _ _
[E] Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not [B] sure
Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
[F#] Maybe you'll come back some day as a [B] king prawn _
_ [E] Maybe angels come to take you [B] away
To heaven or the other way
[F#] But from down here it appears when they're [B] gone, they're gone _
I looked up death in the dictionary one day
[E] Just to see what the dictionary had to [B] say
It's a complete and irreversible cessation of [F#] life's functions _ _
[B] Which is not very funny but it's precise and [E] clean
If you analyze it, what that [B] means is
When they're [F#] gone, _ [B] they're gone _ _
[E] Maybe Jesus beat that rap, we're not sure
[B] Maybe you can live forever if your heart is pure
[F#] Maybe you'll come back some day as a [B] king prawn _ _
_ [E] Maybe angels come to take you [B] away
To heaven or the other [F#] way
But from down here it appears when they're gone, _ [B] they're gone _ _ _ _ _
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