La Dispute - Hudsonville Mi 1956 Standard Tuning by: Andros

^GmThere are bridges over rivers There are moments of collapse There are drivers with their feet on the glass You can kick but you can?t get out There is history in the rooms of the house

After dinner Do the dishes Mother hums The coffeemaker hisses on the stove The steam a crescendo The radio emergency bulletins and Everywhere wind Gm Dm Am Bb F Am C

^Gm You took the train down to Terra Haute, Indiana Visit family, your childhood home

^FGive your mother her grandkid and father a kiss Put your luggage in your bedroom in the kitchen sit

^Gm With your husband still up in Hudsonville Until the weekend when his shift ends at the furniture mill

^FRunning water for the dishes and the coffee on the stove Heard a warning from the corner on the radio

^Gm And the glass starts to rattle in the window frames ^GmSo you went undergr^Found Took the staircase dow^Amn To the cellar full ^Bbof hunting equipment ^GmHeld your baby in your ^Farms Read the labels on ^Ammason jars Try not to t^Bbhink about your husband in Michigan

^Gm Stay calm Keep the radio loud Take care Wind howls

Father piles^F blankets in the corner by the furnace Mother lights candles It?s a miracle the baby doesn?t cry

^Gm Back home doing yard work outside Husband being stubborn under dark skies

^FSaw the fence by the neighbor?s shed split Saw the kitchen windows start to bend in

So you went ^Gmdown to^Bb the back steps the^Cn to the basement ^DmThere were bookshelf plans ^Con the workbench ^FAnd a flashlight sh^Cining bright all night try not to think about your son and your wife ^Gm A^Bbnd the lightning that ^Cscattered the night sky ^DmAnd the wind bursts that t^Core up the power lines ^FAt the workbench in th^Ce basement Where you sat and tried to wait out the night

^Gm You called for three straight days^F Still with your family back home ^Gm Up in Hudsonville the worst of the storms touched ground^F And the phone lines were down

Turn the radio up E|-----------------------| B|-----------------------| G|-----0-2---------------| D|-0-3-------------------| A|-----------------------| E|-----------------------|

^Gm There?s a woman who got thrown from her c^Far into a barbed wire fence She was 6-months pre^Gmgnant

Both her and the baby lived

You tried^F but the line or? I remember those nights

((not quite sure about this next part until "stay calm")) I couldn't get through to you E|----------| B|----------| G|-2-02-5-2-| D|----------| A|----------| E|----------|

^Gmwhen quiet storms c^Bbame rattled the window panes Couldn?t keep a thing the same way E|----------| B|----------| G|-2-02-5-2-| D|----------| A|----------| E|----------|

^Am when the storm blew in and^Dm the furniture rearranged ^GmI can see ^Bblight^Amning ^Fthere and a funnel cloud And her mother said ^Gm?I swear I saw ^Bblightn^Aming in your ey^Gmes When that call got through to the other side.?

^GmStay calm Keep the radio loud Stay down^F There are bridges over rivers Sirens in the distant Wind howls Keep down ^Gm Then After dinner do the dishes Mother hums Wires ^Fsnap Metal gets twisted There?s the rattle of the window glass Bending in ^Gm Take the children down Terra Haute Coffee ^F Thanksgiving Stay calm Keep down At the workbench Stay ^Gm And the coffeemaker hisses Stay calm Keep down Tu^Frn the radio There are There are moments of collapse

La Dispute - Hudsonville mi 1956