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Artist: The National
Album: Boxer
Song: Mistaken For Strangers
[http://www.indieguitartabs.com/bands/national/02_mistaken_for_strangers.html]
Tabbed by: tonyadams
[intro]
(opening) strum
F/A F/Bb F/C
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--8-----8-----8--
--5-----6-----8--
F/A F/Bb
You have to do it running but you do everything that they
F/C
ask you to cause you don't mind seeing
F/A F/Bb
yourself in a picture as long as you look
F/C
faraway, as long as you look removed
F/A F/Bb F/C
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
Dm F
You get mistaken for strangers by your own friends
Bb F
when you pass them at night under the silvery, silvery
Bb F Am Am7
citibank lights, arm in arm in arm and eyes and eyes glazing under
Gm F
Oh you wouldn't want an angel watching over.
Bb F
Surprise, surprise, they wouldn't wannna watch
Bb F Am Am7
another uninnocent, elegant fall into the unmagnificent lives of adults
F/A F/Bb
Make up something to believe in your heart of hearts
F/C Csus4
so you have something to wear on your sleeve of sleeves
F/A F/Bb
so you swear you just saw a feathery
F/C Csus4
woman carry a blindfolded man through the trees
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters
F/A F/Bb F/C Csus4
showered and blue-blazered, fill yourself with quarters