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RED HOUSE PAINTERS


Things Mean A Lot

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DADGAD tuning

INTRO: crescendo in with repeating   xo3o3o

xo3o3o   xo3ooo   xo54oo   xo5ooo   ooo2oo A de-    scend-   ing      climb

4xxoo4                 7x7oo7 my feet can't make the hill

x5oo5o  x4oo4o    x5oo5o to the top (of your heart's heights) (where your house hides)

x3oo3o             55oo5o tomorrow she comes

77oo7o    88oo8o the one who I'd sworn and broke loyally

x3oo3o            o5oo5o to take your place

77oo7o      88(10)ooo in the bed next to me

xo3o3o   xo3ooo    xo54oo   xo5ooo   ooo2oo You      threat to make     me       dead

88oo8o and none of this will matter

77oo75   ooo2oo or surface again

555755           ooo2oo It scares you to know

xxoo45   7779oo that we won't be

999(11)oo   5557oo watching the same        sun

999(11)oo   3335oo or brooding the same        thoughts

999(11)oo   5557oo      999xxx in the same        part of the world

999(11)99   777977      4446oo   222422 Scares me   how you get older

x244xxx        x355xxx

how you for-get about each other

999(11)99   777977      4446oo   222422 Scares me   how you get older

x244xxx        x355xxx

how you for-get about each other

OUTRO:                                     \ 888(10)oo                                  | Things mean a lot at the time              |

2o2ooo             2o2o4o                  | don't mean nothing later                   |

888(10)oo                5554ooo   555oo4  | things mean a lot at the time              |

                                           /

repeat outro 6 times, end with 888(10)oo

OUTRO performance note: I like to pull off the highest fretted note of the 888(10)ooo, 2o2o4o, and 555oo4 chords on the upbeat of 2 just prior to moving to the next chord and allow the open pulled-off note to ring thru the next chord