Chords for The Original Country Joe Band -- Bass Strings (Live South Parade Pier 2004

_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [B] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ _ _ _ [E] _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ [E] _ _ [C] _
[B] I [Em] said, hey _ _ partner, _ won't you pass that refill round?
_ _ _ _ My world is spinning again, _ _ just got to [G] slow it down.
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Am] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ _ It's _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Bm] so hard to _ stand, [Am] you know _ [Gm] I'll never [Em] come down, _ [C] _
_ never [Em] come down.
[D] _ _ [C] _
_ [B] _ [Em] Believe [D] I'll go out to [C] the seashore and let [Em] the [A] waves [C] wash my mind.
[B] _ _ [E] _ _ [A] Open up [C] my head now, _ [Em] just to see [F#m] _ [G] what I can _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ find.
[A] _
_ _ _ _ _ Yes, I'll see what I [Em] can find. _ _ _
[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _
[C] _ _ [Em] _ _ [Bm] _ Just one more trip now, _ [Am] and you know _ [Gm] I'll stay high all [Em] the time, _ [C] _
_ [Em] all the [D] time.
_ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ [F#] _ _
_ [E] _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [E] _
_ [Bm] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _
_ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [A] _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ [Em] _ _ [D] _ _ [C] _
[B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Believe I'll go out to the [Am] desert, _ [Em] just to try [D] and find my [C] past.
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ [A] The truth is all [C] around [Em] me, but it's just beyond [C] my grasp.
[G] _ _ [E] _ _ Oh, [A] _
_ _ _ _ _ it's just [D] beyond [E] my [A] grasp.
_ [G] _
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ _ Let the sand and the snow _ [Am] and the _ wind [Gm] _
carry [Em] me back, [D] _ _ [C] _
_ [Em] carry me [D] back.
_ [C] _
_ [B] _ _ [Em] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [N] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ And now, on the way from Arroyo High School in El Monte, California,
President of the marching band, _ first trombone, Joseph A.
McDonald.
Let's give him a big round of applause.
All right. _ _ _ _
_ _ I guess we're most well known for a song from the Woodstock film called
I Feel Like I'm Fixing to Die Rag about the Vietnam War.
Most people don't know I'm a military veteran myself.
I enlisted in the United States Navy when I was 17 years old.
Like a friend of mine who took off all his clothes and jumped into some cactus said afterwards,
it seemed like a good idea at the time.
[N] _