across the sea
album: pinkerton
submitted by m. burgess


tuning: 1/2 step down

Intro

and this is how you would play it on the guitar
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Verse
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You are an eighteen year old
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girl  who lives in the small city of Japan
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   You heard me on the radio
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About one year ago and you wanted to know
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   All about me and my hobbies
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  My favorite food and my birthday


Chorus
G                 B          E               D/B
   Why are you so far a  way from me?
G             B                 E                  D
   I need help   and your way accccross the sea
 
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               I         could neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever   

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             touch youuuuuu


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    I think it would be wrong         oh

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         I've got your letter              You've got my song

Riff A
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Verse
G                      B    E           D
They don't make stationary like
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this where I'm from so fragile, so refined
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    So I sniff           and I lick
                     (So I snare)                (and I lick)
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    Your envelope and fall to little pieces every
G         B                     C                   D
time I wonder what clothes you wear to
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school. I wonder how you decorate your
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room   I wonder how you touch yourself and
    G            B            C         D   (play fill 1)
curse myself for being across the sea


Filll 1
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Chorus

Solo

Fixed from the previous version. May not be completely right, but
it's a helluva lot closer than the last one.


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At  ten I shaved my head and tried to be a monk

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I thought the older women would like me if i did


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   You see mom    I'm a good little boy
                                                                 (good little boy)
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    It's all your fault   momma   It's all your fault


Verse

G          B              C                  D
Goddamn   This business is really lame

G            B                 C            D
  I gotta live on an island to find the juice

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  So you send                          me your love
                         (So you send)                  (me your love)

G                                    B                   C                             D
   From all around the world                          As if I could live on
                                           (from all around the                  world)

G                        B                C          D
Words and dreams and a million screams oh

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How I need a hand in mine to feel

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     Why  are you so far away from me

G                    B                  A                     E E  E E E E E E E E
     Why  are you so far away from me


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               I         could neeeeeeeeeeeeeeeever   

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             touch youuuuuu


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    I think it would be wrong         oh


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         I've got your letter              You've got my song
                                                            (I've got    your

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        I've got your letter              you've got my song
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