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Ted Leo - Counting Down The Hours Ukulele

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Counting Down The Hours Ukulele

(ver. 1)
Ted Leo
    Dm                                   F
Innocence, it don't come easy - in a sense it never will

    Dm                              C                     G
Accidents mean no one's guilty, ignorance means someone's killed

     Dm                           F
So I asked our Mr. Mellor how one gets to where one's going

       Dm                             C                  G
And he points to his survival, and he points me down the road

        

        Dm
As I go on

F
Wondering if I've got a soul and

G                               C
Counting down the hours 'til it goes



     Dm                            F
On a dark wet night in April, on a street in Jersey where

       Dm                              C                 G
I went looking for some writing that I knew would not be there

      Dm                              F
And a punter from the Pelhams and the police, in the rain,

        Dm                                   C                  G
Were concerned more with a car than with the fact the light had changed

          Dm                          F
But after listening all morning, as I drove down 95

     Dm                          C           G
To a story of detainees who were barely kept alive

        Dm                                  F
I could deal with trying to process pigeons acting like they're doves

    Dm                             C           G
But not with interference from the power lines above



        Dm
As I go on

F
Wondering if I've got a soul and

G                               C
Counting down the hours 'til it goes

        

         Dm                F
And oh, precautions, yes precautions

                      Dm                    C         G
But if you're playing with a gun, you could kill someone

            Dm               F
And in the dark it's hard to know a friend

            Dm             C          G
But I'm not angry, I won't be forever angry

       Dm                             F
As I'm walking toward tomorrow with a rifle in my hand

        Dm                                  C           G
And I'm thinking about New England, and I'm missing old Japan

      Dm                             F
And a mountain in California where a spring runs hot and cold

         Dm                                 C               G
And if I told you I felt ageless, would you tell me I'm not old?



        Dm
As I go on

F
Wondering if I've got a soul and

G                                C
Counting down the hours 'till it goes
            
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