Jesse Welles

Landmines

Jesse Welles

Guitar chords Intermediate level Intermediate
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That little run with F 7 looks something like this 
    F7   C/E     D7sus2    G    C 
e|----0------0--------0-------3--------| 
b|----1------1--------1-------0----1---| 
G|----2------0--------2-------0----0---| 
D|----3------2--------0-------0----2---| 
A|----------------------------2----3---| 
E|----------------------------3--------| 

C chord on Chorus has these flourishes 
    C 
e|----------0---3---5---3---0----------| 
b|--1---3---1---1---1---1---1---3---1--| 
G|--0---0-----------------------0---0--| 
D|--2---2-----------------------2---2--| 
A|--3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3---3--| 
E|-------------------------------------| 


Intro 
C  C/G   E7   Am  Am/G   D7   G   G6  G7    C 

 
C                E7                        E7/G#          Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
You watched your cat get ran over you were broken in your pain 
      G                                         C   C/G 
I was stoned upstairs trying to remember my own name 
                E7                         E7/G#  Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
Our friends got weirder with their eyes as red as roses 
            G                                           C   C/G 
They lifted heavier things with their needles and their noses 
           E7    E7/G#          Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
And always girls with their miseries 
     G                        F7  C/E     D7sus2   G    C 
As mysterious as stars and as obvi---ous     as       gravity 
 

 
C                               F    F/C   Dm 
Landmines in my mind called memories 
C                                        F    F/C 
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens 
Dm                    G   G6   G7 
Don't you know what I mean 
 

 
          E7                                      E7/G#   Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
I climbed up and I jumped and when I hit I was completely numb 
            G                                            C   C/G 
You drug my broke ass to the carnival and it wasn't even fun 
           E7                                    Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
I walked forever like an ancestor exiled from my mind 
       G                      F7    C/E     D7sus2  G  C 
In the sackcloth and ash of a borrowed pair of your    levis 
                             E7              E7/G#          Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
We stuffed yer Mazda full of dope plants and headed back to base 
                   G               F7     C/E      D7sus2   G    C    G 
I've never been an astronaut but I swear  to god I've been     to   space 
 

 
C                               F    F/C   Dm 
Landmines in my mind called memories 
C                                        F    F/C 
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens 
Dm                    G   G6   G7 
Don't you know what I mean 
 

 
        E7                            E7/G#           Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
Now the sun is coming through the curtains and I must leave 
        G                                                    C   C/G 
I can't change the way it was only change the way it's gonna be 
         E7             E7/G#             Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
Don't ya look me in the eye and don't get tough 
         G                                                             C   C/G 
What you think you know you don't and what you do you mostly just made up 
                E7        E7/G#                 Am   Am/G  D7/F# 
You do what you can and sometimes even what you should 
          G                                                     C   C/G   G 
Aint it a shame the way the good ole days weren't even all that good 
 

 
C                               F    F/C   Dm 
Landmines in my mind called memories 
C                                        F    F/C 
I gotta watch I don't get blown to smithereens 
Dm                    G   G6   G7 
Don't you know what I mean 
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