Stringman

	  		Intro F  C  Bb  C 

F 
You can say the soul is gone 
         Dm 
And the feeling is just not there 
Bb           C            F 
Not like it was so long ago 

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On the empty page before you 
         Dm 
You can fill in what you care 
Bb              C              F 
Try to make it new before you go 


Take the simple case of the sarge 
     Dm 
Who can't go back to war 
           Bb    
Cause the hippies 
                 C      
Tore down everything 
                      F 
That he was fighting for 

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        F 
Or the lovers on the blankets 
          Dm 
That the city turned to whores 

          Bb 
With memories 
          C             F 
Of green kissed by the sun 

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F 
You can say the soul is gone 
Dm 
And close another door 
Bb 
Just be sure 
      C               F  
That yours is not the one 
         Bb                F 
And I'm singing for the stringman 
     Bb              F 
Who lately lost his wife 
      Bb             F  
There is no dearer friend of mine 
     C               F 
That I know in this life 
         Bb              F 
On his shoulder rests a violin 
         Bb               F 
For his head where chaos reigns 
         Bb 
But his heart 
              F    
Can't find a simple way 
    C                    F    C  Bb  C 
To live with all those things 
      F     C    Bb  C 
All those things 
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All those strings to pull 
          F    C  Bb  C 
He's a stringman 
             F 
All those strings