Chords for The Gift
Tempo:
113.6 bpm
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Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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[Fm] Walter [D] Jeffers had reached his [G] limit.
[D] It was now mid [C]-August.
[D] more than two months.
adlettas and two [D] very expensive long [E]-distance phone calls.
[A] when school had ended and two to try to [Em] discuss a [D] date to go to [C] Pennsylvania.
[G] She would date occasionally, [Dm] but merely as a [G] mutual friend.
[G] face, sir.
He had trouble sleeping at night.
[D] It was now mid [C]-August.
[D] more than two months.
adlettas and two [D] very expensive long [E]-distance phone calls.
[A] when school had ended and two to try to [Em] discuss a [D] date to go to [C] Pennsylvania.
[G] She would date occasionally, [Dm] but merely as a [G] mutual friend.
[G] face, sir.
He had trouble sleeping at night.
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_ [Fm] _ Walter [D] Jeffers had reached his [G] limit.
[D] It was now mid [C]-August.
He spent in a separate [G] room on a shelf for [D] more than two months.
[C] In two months, Wally had to show three doggie adlettas and two [D] very expensive long [E]-distance phone calls.
[Dm] Two [A] when school had ended and two to try to [Em] discuss a [D] date to go to [C] Pennsylvania.
[D] She had room to [G] maintain the purpose. _ _
[G] She would date occasionally, [Dm] but merely as a [G] mutual friend.
[D] He was a great [G] face, sir.
[D] But [F] lately, Walter had [D] begun to worry.
He had trouble sleeping at night.
_ [C] He didn't know [D] how he was [Gm] moving.
[D] He lay awake at [A] night, [D] tossing and turning, [A] his arrested foot protected, tears running in his eyes.
His rigid posture and the sworn [C] vows of a combined [D] baker, [C] soothing and [Dm] meanderful, [A] finally submitting to the final caresses of sex.
_ _ It was more than a point of play.
The [C] shivers of Marshall's face were so [D] confident that his daytime fantasies of sexual abandon [G] permeated [A] his song.
_ If it wasn't, they wouldn't understand how she [G] really was.
She wound up alone in the stables. _
The attitude [D] of the craftman, ending up in the heart of the city, made her [B] smile.
[G] She needed him. _ _
_ The idea came to him on the first day before [D] he was ready to [A] schedule a date.
He just had his mind arranged in the [G] absence of any _ _ other decision.
[D] He had Marshall.
_ He was the head of [C] an organ and liver [D] company in America, [G] inquiring into his [Dm] own business.
[D] To this day, he cares not for her.
He was in New York.
_ [Cm] He could [Fm] go anywhere on a bus.
[D] He had a job.
[G] He didn't [D] have enough money for his [C] consummation.
He had to accept [D] the financial aid.
_ He was a _ _ ship.
He would ship himself past the coast, crossing the river.
_ The next day, while the weather seemed fine, Marshall was _ _ flying past the head [G] of the state.
[Dm] On the medium-sized cargo box just right for [C] his head, _ [Dm] he judged [A] that he'd a minimum of jobs he could provide for a few people.
A few were also very good.
It _ would probably be [D] as good as going to [G] work.
_ Early afternoon, Waldo was there.
He started to pack the [D] clothes on his feet, [C] picking them up at 3 o'clock.
[A] He marked the package fragile.
[C] As he sat down at [C] his side, Wesley was a form of a visionary.
_ [A] He tried to picture the look of a warm [C] happiness on Marshall's face as he opened the door, saw the package,
tipped the delivery, and [G] then opened the door.
Waldo finally reared his head.
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _
If you don't need part of this [C] picture, [Dm] set a neat roughhouse, put in a package, and pick up [Bm] yourself warm enough.
He landed [C] in the first truck [D] in the zone.
[C] _ [Dm] Marshall promised [Cm] me to just finish [D] cutting her hair.
It [Dm] had been a very long, _ _
[G] shedded member [Dm] of the drinks like that.
[G] _ [Dm] Bill had been nicer than his own.
[G] After it was a very sad incident [D] expected, and [C] after all, it was certainly [Dm] the way of nature.
[G] Even though he [Dm] was old, he didn't look like it, didn't [D] feel an affection for her.
And after all, Bill _ _ _ [B] _ could teach Waldo.
But that seemed [D] many years ago.
[C] _ Sheila [A] Kline, her very, very best friend, walked into the porch screaming over the pinnacle of the kitchen.
_ Oh, God, it's absolutely ridiculous. _
_ I know it is.
I feel all the heat.
Marshall turned to the back of the room to see what he was thinking.
Sheila ran to the table and said,
Stop being so impatient, _ _ baby. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Marshall started [A] to talk. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ God damn chocolate.
[C] _ [A] She got up from the table and said the same question over and over again. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
I don't think [A] I will ever touch a chocolate [Cm] again.
She gave up this [G] afternoon, and sat near the small table as the coachman telephoned her.
[Dm]
Maybe [G] Bill will call, she said to Sheila's house.
She said he wouldn't do it.
After [C] last night, I thought that he [A] would do it.
_ _ _ My God, he's like an octopus.
He has all of this.
Just ridiculous. _ _
The thing is, after a while, you get tired [Gm] of fighting over him.
After [Dm] all, I didn't get [G] through anything Friday and Saturday, so I thought I would.
But whatever.
[Dm] He's done.
_ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ He's a good son of a school.
After a while, he gets even more of a Muslim.
_ _ I can't laugh at him.
_ _ At this point, Mr.
Jameson, the accountant, started to close the door,
despite the door being open at the lunch that the coachman [Dm] had planned.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ He was [A] fighting over academics.
[C] _ He said not to let the volunteers go out, because they might be talking about him.
_ And here she is.
_ She declares, I'm not thinking of you.
_ She said I'm not thinking of you, I'm not going to do it this time.
_ _ [Cm] Ok.
_ [D] So [G] it was like a while ago when the coachman said,
This [A] is what I'm going to do, but not this time.
She rolled up her sleeves, and gave me a flat asker. _ _ _
_ [D] Why don't you agree with me?
Because the TV was on.
Well, don't forget it now.
He was a budding artist, [G] _ _ [D] _ _ and Marshall walked around the continent wearing a king's fashion.
[D] _ _ [C] Oh, [Dm] God, it's from Waldo!
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] Waldo [G] traveled to that [D] cacophony.
[Dm] Well, he might as well have opened it, since he had a [G] lot of people on the train to go to the stand.
_ _ [C#] _ _
[F] _ [F#] Oh, well, he must [C] have made it show.
_ [Dm]
Waldo did.
_ [D] _ _ [C] But, you know, how would you have done it?
[G] Well, _ [Dm] he [G] couldn't _ [C] get in the way.
[D] _ [C] The road stood still [D] for him.
[Cm] _ When did he get his [C] scissors, I should ask?
[D] _
[C] Marshall [D] had to.
Her [C] aunt was a [Bm] little short. _
[C] Then she [B] remembered that her father [C] came to the country in [D] 1450.
[Em] _ _ [Dm] He [C] came back up.
She had a [D] large, uh, _ _ _ _ [A] that's_
She's her young brother.
Yeah, she will.
I'm gonna die.
_ She's something of a large, fluffy couch.
Big, big, big.
_ [D] _
[G] She looked like she [D] had a dream.
The master [C] gave her his [Dm] heart of love.
[C] The greatest [A] baby there was [C] in the world.
God damn [G] this baby!
_ [A#] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _
She loved him.
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Her whole transvestite soul.
_ _ _ In his sleep, she felt his beauty.
She could feel his heart [Dm] beating in his throat.
_ Perhaps _ [A] she [B] had slept quite [G] a bit, and [B] walked around to the other [C] side of the cacophony.
[B] And she sank down to her knees.
The master cannot make both her knees move.
[A] _ She touched the long bridge.
She met her biker through the masking tape.
Through the cardboard.
_ _ [B] _ _
Bikers sent her to Walter Jeffers' [G] hand.
It's like he had caused her to [D] die for red.
[G] Possibly Jeffers.
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] It was now mid [C]-August.
He spent in a separate [G] room on a shelf for [D] more than two months.
[C] In two months, Wally had to show three doggie adlettas and two [D] very expensive long [E]-distance phone calls.
[Dm] Two [A] when school had ended and two to try to [Em] discuss a [D] date to go to [C] Pennsylvania.
[D] She had room to [G] maintain the purpose. _ _
[G] She would date occasionally, [Dm] but merely as a [G] mutual friend.
[D] He was a great [G] face, sir.
[D] But [F] lately, Walter had [D] begun to worry.
He had trouble sleeping at night.
_ [C] He didn't know [D] how he was [Gm] moving.
[D] He lay awake at [A] night, [D] tossing and turning, [A] his arrested foot protected, tears running in his eyes.
His rigid posture and the sworn [C] vows of a combined [D] baker, [C] soothing and [Dm] meanderful, [A] finally submitting to the final caresses of sex.
_ _ It was more than a point of play.
The [C] shivers of Marshall's face were so [D] confident that his daytime fantasies of sexual abandon [G] permeated [A] his song.
_ If it wasn't, they wouldn't understand how she [G] really was.
She wound up alone in the stables. _
The attitude [D] of the craftman, ending up in the heart of the city, made her [B] smile.
[G] She needed him. _ _
_ The idea came to him on the first day before [D] he was ready to [A] schedule a date.
He just had his mind arranged in the [G] absence of any _ _ other decision.
[D] He had Marshall.
_ He was the head of [C] an organ and liver [D] company in America, [G] inquiring into his [Dm] own business.
[D] To this day, he cares not for her.
He was in New York.
_ [Cm] He could [Fm] go anywhere on a bus.
[D] He had a job.
[G] He didn't [D] have enough money for his [C] consummation.
He had to accept [D] the financial aid.
_ He was a _ _ ship.
He would ship himself past the coast, crossing the river.
_ The next day, while the weather seemed fine, Marshall was _ _ flying past the head [G] of the state.
[Dm] On the medium-sized cargo box just right for [C] his head, _ [Dm] he judged [A] that he'd a minimum of jobs he could provide for a few people.
A few were also very good.
It _ would probably be [D] as good as going to [G] work.
_ Early afternoon, Waldo was there.
He started to pack the [D] clothes on his feet, [C] picking them up at 3 o'clock.
[A] He marked the package fragile.
[C] As he sat down at [C] his side, Wesley was a form of a visionary.
_ [A] He tried to picture the look of a warm [C] happiness on Marshall's face as he opened the door, saw the package,
tipped the delivery, and [G] then opened the door.
Waldo finally reared his head.
[A] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _ _
If you don't need part of this [C] picture, [Dm] set a neat roughhouse, put in a package, and pick up [Bm] yourself warm enough.
He landed [C] in the first truck [D] in the zone.
[C] _ [Dm] Marshall promised [Cm] me to just finish [D] cutting her hair.
It [Dm] had been a very long, _ _
[G] shedded member [Dm] of the drinks like that.
[G] _ [Dm] Bill had been nicer than his own.
[G] After it was a very sad incident [D] expected, and [C] after all, it was certainly [Dm] the way of nature.
[G] Even though he [Dm] was old, he didn't look like it, didn't [D] feel an affection for her.
And after all, Bill _ _ _ [B] _ could teach Waldo.
But that seemed [D] many years ago.
[C] _ Sheila [A] Kline, her very, very best friend, walked into the porch screaming over the pinnacle of the kitchen.
_ Oh, God, it's absolutely ridiculous. _
_ I know it is.
I feel all the heat.
Marshall turned to the back of the room to see what he was thinking.
Sheila ran to the table and said,
Stop being so impatient, _ _ baby. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D]
Marshall started [A] to talk. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ God damn chocolate.
[C] _ [A] She got up from the table and said the same question over and over again. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
I don't think [A] I will ever touch a chocolate [Cm] again.
She gave up this [G] afternoon, and sat near the small table as the coachman telephoned her.
[Dm]
Maybe [G] Bill will call, she said to Sheila's house.
She said he wouldn't do it.
After [C] last night, I thought that he [A] would do it.
_ _ _ My God, he's like an octopus.
He has all of this.
Just ridiculous. _ _
The thing is, after a while, you get tired [Gm] of fighting over him.
After [Dm] all, I didn't get [G] through anything Friday and Saturday, so I thought I would.
But whatever.
[Dm] He's done.
_ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ He's a good son of a school.
After a while, he gets even more of a Muslim.
_ _ I can't laugh at him.
_ _ At this point, Mr.
Jameson, the accountant, started to close the door,
despite the door being open at the lunch that the coachman [Dm] had planned.
_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ He was [A] fighting over academics.
[C] _ He said not to let the volunteers go out, because they might be talking about him.
_ And here she is.
_ She declares, I'm not thinking of you.
_ She said I'm not thinking of you, I'm not going to do it this time.
_ _ [Cm] Ok.
_ [D] So [G] it was like a while ago when the coachman said,
This [A] is what I'm going to do, but not this time.
She rolled up her sleeves, and gave me a flat asker. _ _ _
_ [D] Why don't you agree with me?
Because the TV was on.
Well, don't forget it now.
He was a budding artist, [G] _ _ [D] _ _ and Marshall walked around the continent wearing a king's fashion.
[D] _ _ [C] Oh, [Dm] God, it's from Waldo!
[C] _ _ [D] _ _ [F] _ _ [D] Waldo [G] traveled to that [D] cacophony.
[Dm] Well, he might as well have opened it, since he had a [G] lot of people on the train to go to the stand.
_ _ [C#] _ _
[F] _ [F#] Oh, well, he must [C] have made it show.
_ [Dm]
Waldo did.
_ [D] _ _ [C] But, you know, how would you have done it?
[G] Well, _ [Dm] he [G] couldn't _ [C] get in the way.
[D] _ [C] The road stood still [D] for him.
[Cm] _ When did he get his [C] scissors, I should ask?
[D] _
[C] Marshall [D] had to.
Her [C] aunt was a [Bm] little short. _
[C] Then she [B] remembered that her father [C] came to the country in [D] 1450.
[Em] _ _ [Dm] He [C] came back up.
She had a [D] large, uh, _ _ _ _ [A] that's_
She's her young brother.
Yeah, she will.
I'm gonna die.
_ She's something of a large, fluffy couch.
Big, big, big.
_ [D] _
[G] She looked like she [D] had a dream.
The master [C] gave her his [Dm] heart of love.
[C] The greatest [A] baby there was [C] in the world.
God damn [G] this baby!
_ [A#] _ _ [C] _ _ [B] _
She loved him.
[D] _ _ [C] _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Her whole transvestite soul.
_ _ _ In his sleep, she felt his beauty.
She could feel his heart [Dm] beating in his throat.
_ Perhaps _ [A] she [B] had slept quite [G] a bit, and [B] walked around to the other [C] side of the cacophony.
[B] And she sank down to her knees.
The master cannot make both her knees move.
[A] _ She touched the long bridge.
She met her biker through the masking tape.
Through the cardboard.
_ _ [B] _ _
Bikers sent her to Walter Jeffers' [G] hand.
It's like he had caused her to [D] die for red.
[G] Possibly Jeffers.
[Dm] _ _ [G] _ _ [Dm] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _
[G] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ [D#] _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _