Fellow Traveller

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To match tuning, use the first portion of the following
live performance that shows John tuning his guitar:

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Verse          Pre-Chorus     Chorus           Bridge         Outro
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E|-- 

F   079xxx     G   225xxx     Bb/D  552xxx     G   225xxx     Bb   
555xxx
D   999xxx     Bb  555xxx     C/E   774xxx     A   445xxx     C    
777xxx
C   777xxx     F   079xxx     F     079xxx     Bb  555xxx     A    
445xxx
Bb  555xxx     C   777xxx     Bb    555xxx     C   777xxx     C/E  
774xxx
                              C     777xxx                    F    
079xxx


[Verse 1]

F
Rain for the last day that I will be known
    D          C            Bb
The way that I want them to know me
F
Rain for reporters' predictable leads
       D         C           Bb
On the darkening stain of my name


[Pre-Chorus 1]

G                         Bb                 F                C
Rain like the morning you left with the international brigade
  G                          Bb                           F
A streak of your face at the glass when the train pulled away

[Chorus 1]

Bb/D         C/E           F        Bb
     The aspidistra that refused to die
Bb/D             C/E         F         Bb
     A miniature camera in a Cambridge tie
Bb               C         F                     Bb
     To get that Soviet control to crack a smile
Bb         C               F
All in our file, my fellow traveller


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B|-----|    
G|-----|    
D|5-5--| x2 
A|5-5--|    
E|5-5--|    

                        Ooh ooh ooh-ooh

[Verse 2]

F
Sleep for the telephone's silent receiver
       D            C           Bb
On its beetle-black back in the hall
F
Sleep for the bottle that rolled off my desk
D             C          Bb
Danced itself out on the floor


[Pre-Chorus 2]

G                        Bb               F                   C
Sleep for the overturned ashtray splayed across an unmade bed
      G                   Bb                    F
While I interrogate every word that I ever said

[Chorus 2]

Bb/D             C/E            F     Bb
     I fall from buildings into angry air
Bb/D            C/E            F    Bb
     Lecture my students in my underwear
Bb              C              F                    Bb
     But once I was allowed to dream of you instead
Bb        C             F
My dear defected fellow traveller


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B|--0---x---x--x--x--|--0---x---x--x--x--|---------------|------------
G|--x---9---10-10-10-|--x---9---10-10-10-|---------------|------------
D|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5---7---9--9--9--|--5-5---5-5-5--|--5/5-5---5-
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E|-----| 
B|-----| 
G|-----| 
D|5-5--| 
A|5-5--| 
E|5-5--| 

                        Ooh ooh ooh-ooh

[Bridge]

        G
How you booked your final passage
       A
With a passport that you paid for with a pair of roller skates
        Bb
How you dyed your hair and mustache
         C
Put on a mid-Atlantic accent but you couldn't stop the shakes

          G
When they asked where you had come from
        A
And you muttered, "That's a good one"
                Bb
Though you were never really certain


[Chorus 3]

Bb/D         C/E            F       Bb
     Every umbrella down on Portman Square
Bb/D           C/E        F          Bb
     Opens and closes to arraign our fair
Bb             C                 F               Bb
     Theory of something I can't picture anymore
Bb        C             G         A
A forgery for my fellow traveller


[Outro]

  Bb            C
I won't wait to see
            A                C/E
I still I believe in you and me
          F
My fellow traveller

• A
• Bb
• Bb/D

  3
• C
• C/E
• D
• F
• G