----------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Baby for Pree (Live at Jittery Joe's) - Jeff Mangum ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- I suggest finding someway to listen to this version before you try to play it. It would difficult just off the chords alone. This is the LIVE AT JITTERY JOE'S version of the song, NOT the one on On Avery Island. NOTE: His guitar is tuned slightly sharp when playing this song, so if you try to play the CD it will sound off. Even a capo on the first will be too sharp, you have to be just sharp. A flat sharp, if that makes sense. Intro: C Em F Em C C Em F Em C C

^CBlistering Pree, all smiling and swollen^Em Makes ^Fbabies to breathe with their hearts hanging open^Em All ^Cover the sheets as soft as beets in some brown ^Emdresser ^Fdrawer ^EmAnd with ^Fbees in her breath and the rest of her ringing ^Em They'll ^Fsting through her chest with a force hard and beating^Em Until ^Cwonderfully wet she will get Until she's soaked inside^Em her ^Fclothes And there is no sorry to be sorry ^Efor For a roll around the ^Ffloor some afternoon so sound and soft^E It made her swallow all her ^Fsweat with every bit of breath she ^Ecoughs And when the day it came to ^Fpour all her babies all across the bathroom ^Gfloor She will be swimming in them all forev^Cer^Cmo^Emre ^F ^Em

^CGlow right ^Eminto ^Fyou, I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou And I let you ^Edown Swollen and ^Fsmall is where you find me ^Enow With that silver stripping ^Foff and my tongue you're tearing ^Eout And you'll never hear me ^Ftalk ^CGlow right ^Eminto ^Fyou, I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou

And I will be ^Estrong, strong enough To ^Fshout above your voice that's blaring hard^E And your face that's falling ^Fout into the dust of what you ar^Ee F G C C Em ^EmAnd I will never hear you talk

^CGlow right ^Eminto ^Fyou, I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou I ^Emwill ^Cglow Right ^Eminto ^Fyou^E

And with my little ^Ffinger ^E I could make it all^F crumble^E I could make it all^F over ^E Before y^Fou would e^Gven know ^CGlow

Neutral Milk Hotel - A baby for pree