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Artist: Beulah
 Album: When Your Heartstrings Break
  Song: Ballad of the Lonely Argonaut

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Tabbed by: sixpac_drinkur from http://www.e6townhall.com/




E--------B
Half by sea
A
Through the isthmus o'er the cape they're rounding
E-----B
Over land
A----------------------------------------E
Follow the shallow ribbon of the plat
----A------------E
an El Dorado waits
---------B-A-E
like an avalanche
----------A-------------------E
and the boys are off to see
-----B-A-C#m
the elephant

----------------G#m
How does it feel
---A
to roam this land like Hart and Twain did?
C#m------------------------G#m
How, how, how does it feel?
--A
A thousand miles closer to hell


Over land
they pass God's bluff and cross the basin
Half by sea
they follow the coast and through the gate where

B------------------------A
Gold is coated with gold
---------E--------B
on the languid hills
-------------------------A-------------E
where they wait for hours and hours
B-------------------------A---------E----------B
cool gray ladies from shirley's learn us cheer
---------------------A------------E
and they sat for hours and hours

["ba ba ba" fill - D, C#m, Bm, A]


The luck of the roaring camp
and how they taught the outcasts of the flats
in their poker face

Cannot hide the fever of
the children's crusade
slow, slower than slow
days spill into one another

Gold is coated with gold
on the languid hills
where they wait for hours and hours
cool gray ladies from Shirley's loan us cheer
and they sat for hours and hours