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Shins - Port Of Morrow Ukulele

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Port Of Morrow Ukulele
Version #1
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I've tried to line up the chords as best as possible, as always, listen to the 
song for best comparison. I'm sure this is right, then again, I have just spent an 
hour I should've spent in bed working this out. I've actually worked out a lot of 
the new album, will likely add them soon. The lyrics are makeshift, based on what 
I could decipher, will update when the album comes out :D Enjoy! Sounds best 
played on open chords!

Intro
G D B G
G D B Em
G D B G
G B 
G D
Verse

Am              E
Through the rain and all the clatter
G           G        D
Under the Fremont bridge I saw a pigeon fly
Am            G              G                 E
Fly in fear from the raptor come to take its life

Am               E
And as it closed in for the capture
G     G          D
I funnelled the fear through my ancient eyes

Am              G
To see in flight, what I know are
     G                    E
The bitter mechanics of life


G         D                    B             G
Under my hat it reads "the lines are all imagined" 
G           D             B                   Em
A fact of life I know to hide from my little girls
G           D                B                 G
I know my place amongst the bugs and all the animals
G                      B
And it's from these ordinary people
            G            D
You are longing to be free

Am         E
My hotel and on the TV
G    G           D
A preacher on the stage like a buzzard cries
Am             G                      G               E
Our a warning of phony sorrow. He's trying to get a rise.

Am          E
The cyanide of an almond
G        G             D
Let him look at your hands, get the angles right
Am               G              G                  E
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.


G           D          B          G
I saw a photograph; Cologne in '27
G           D                B        Em
And then a postcard after the bombs in '45
G                 D             B                   G
Must have been a world of evil clowns that let it happen
G            B           
But now I recognise, dear listeners,
               G               D
That you were there and so was I

Instrumental break
Am G
Am G E
Am G G E

(whole break x2)

G         D               B             G
Under my hat I know the lines are all imagined 
G           D             B                   Em
A fact of life I must impress on my little girls
G           D                B                 G
I know my place amongst the creatures in the pageant
G                B
And there are flowers in the garbage
         G               D
And a skull under your curls


Instrumental break
Am G
Am G E
Am G G E

Repeat instrumental break until fade.


Note: I initially had the verse second part of the verse chords as
Am               E              G                  E
Ace of spades, Port of Morrow, life is death is life.
 for example, with another A in place of the F. It sounded right to me, but I went 
            
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