Misc Your Songs - The shitbirds - this here will follow you
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This Here Will Follow You - Tim Keenan (2008)
[VERSE 1]
EThis story starts just south of E7Boston
AIn a small town called Walpole my frieA7nd
EHad my father and my mother was still liE7ving
AAnd my brother we did the best that we A7can
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 2]
EThere was a factory about a mile from my E7home
AGot my first job sorting cans for Mr. JA7ones
E$5.25 an hour’s how it gE7oes
A6-10 pm I was 14 years A7old
[CHORUS]
EWherever we go and whatever we dE7o
AThis here will follow youA7
EWhatever we learn and whatever is E7new
AThis here will follow yA7ou
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 3]
EMy Old Man he went to work everyE7day
AWas always different and so was his paA7y
EIn the factory or construction cE7rew
AWhatever it took brother that what he’A7d do
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 4]
EHe took a bullet for the Corp in VietE7nam
AHe joined up like his brothers before A7him
EHe came home 98% man, E7
AAnd 2% steel and aluminuA7m
[CHORUS]
EWherever we go and whatever we dE7o
AThis here will follow youA7
EWhatever we learn and whatever is E7new
AThis here will follow yA7ou
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 5]
EMy poor mother may God rest her E7soul
AShe worked herself to death, she was 58 years A7old
EWorking graveyards at the hospital in E7town
AShe died in peace and in peace she is A7now
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 6]
EI left home for adventure and loE7ve
ACalifornia is where I’d end uA7p
EGot a job carrying rocks up a hiE7ll
AI was the Sisyphus of OaklaA7nd
[CHORUS]
EWherever we go and whatever we dE7o
AThis here will follow yA7ou
EWhatever we learn and whatever is E7new
AThis here will follow yA7ou
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 7]
EI headed south got a job building shiE7ps
AIn the interim had a job catching fA7ish
EHad a car it was stuck in 3rd geE7ar
AI didn’t know who I’d be in a yeA7ar
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 8]
EHad a woman addicted to rE7ide
ACouldn’t keep one like that by my sA7ide
EGot one better, she makes coffee everyE7day
ASo it’s to her that I bring home my pA7ay
E E7 A A7
[VERSE 9]
ESome say life is a coaster ride E7
AI’m sure that fine cept we’re all gonnA7a die
EWhere I been I remember it well E7
AIt’ll follow me, It’ll follow me to heA7ll
[CHORUS]
EWherever we go and whatever we dE7o
AThis here will follow youA7
EWhatever we learn and whatever is E7new
AThis here will follow yA7ou
E E7 A A7