The Plains Bitter Dancer

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bitter dancer

   Em riff 1 (picking) (you can also play this riff in fast triplets)
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   Em riff 1
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Em riff 1
Just as the sand made everything round
Em riff 1
Just as the tar seeps up from the ground
E*             F#*  G*
bitter dancer, ever turning
Em riff 1
so was the day that you came to town


  Em riff 2 (play this melody while strumming softly the Em chord)
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  Em riff 2
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Em riff 2
you took a room and you settled in
Em riff 2
washed off the chalk from your weathered skin
E*                F#*    G*
daylight sleeper, bloody reaper
Em riff 2
you took a room and you settled in

Em riff 2 (2x)
(flute solo)

Em riff 2
i should have known one day you would come
Em riff 2
all of us walk so blind in the sun
E*               F#*     G*
midnight feeder, beggar, pleader
Em riff 2
i should had known one day you would come

Em riff 2
(flute solo)

E*   F# G*    A* G*F# G**
tell me again my only son
Dsus2   F*    G*        F*  Em riff 2
tell me again what have you done

Em riff 2
(flute solo)

F#m G     F#m
at  arm's lengths
       G* Dsus2 G6
i will hold you there
   Dsus2 G6
there

Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6
Dsus2 G6

F#m G     F#m
at  arm's lengths
       G* Dsus2 G6
i will hold you there
    Dsus2 G6
there