Tuning:

What I have labeled here as G is sorta close to G; it's a weird voicing that I didn't feel like figuring out in great detail, particularly since the open voicing sopunds just fine. A#dim is, from the lowest string to the highest, x12320 (that is, it's A major, but turn all the As into A#s). A fairly simple fingerpicking pattern sounds good here; there's no need to be too elaborate. It should definitely, hovever, be picked rather than strummed. "Delivery Delayed" by Stan Rogers from the album _Between the Breaks...Live!_

^GHow early is "^DBeginning"? ^GFrom when is there a ^Dsoul? ^GDo we discover ^Dliving, or, ^Gsomehow, are we ^Dtold? ^AIn sudden pain, in empty cold, in ^A#dimblinding light of day We're ^Bmgiven breath and it ^Bm/Atakes our breath away.

How cruel to unformed fancy, the way in which we come -- Over-whelmed by feeling and sudden loss of love And what price dark confining pain, (the hardest to forgive) When all at once we're called upon to live (G G/F# Em - A) By giant hand we're taken from the shelter of the womb That dreaded firt horizon, the endless empty room Where communion is lost forever when a heart first beats alone Still, it remembers, no matter how it's grown (G G/F# Em - A)

We ^Dgrow, but ^D/Ggrow ^Dapart -- We ^Dlive, but ^D/Gmore alone -- The ^Emmore to be, the more to see, ^CTo cry aloud that we are free ^BbTo hide our ancient fear of ^Abeing alone

And how we live in darkness, embracing spiteful cold Refusing any answers, for no man can be told That Delivery is delayed until at last we're made aware And first reach for love, to find twas always there. -- spostel@cs.oberlin.edu Bananafish ssp5688@ocvaxa.cc.oberlin.edu (forwarded automatically to above address) "I've been reaching out to find a friend Who knows all the words, sings so she's heard, And knows how all the stories end." --Stan Rogers From: Barrie McCombs Subject: r/stan_rogers/delivery_delayed.crd DELIVERY DELAYED Time: 2/2 Tenor: D Bass: D - Stan Rogers, 1979, on: Between the Breaks, Key: D INTRO(?): Gmaj7, Gmaj7, D, Dmaj7

^Gmaj7....... How *
early is Be-^Dginning_^Dmaj7_____ ^Gmaj7....... from *
when is there a ^Dsoul_^Dmaj7_____ ^Gmaj7....... Do *
we disco-^Dver living_^Dmaj7_____ ^Gmaj7....... or, *
somehow, are__^D__ we told_^Dmaj7_____ A * A#dim * In sudden pain, in empty cold, in blinding light of day We're ^Bmgiven breath and it *
takes our ^Abreath a-^Gway *

How cruel to unformed fancy / The way in which we come Over-whelmed by feeling / And sudden loss of love And what price dark confining pain, the hardest to forgive Bm * A G G/F# Em * A * When all at once we're called upon . to live (Then) by giant hand we're taken / From the shelter of the womb That dreaded first horizon / The endless empty room Where communion is lost forever, when a heart first beats alone

Still, ^Bmit remembers, no *
matter ^Ahow it's ^Ggro^G/F#wn_____^Em_____^A7__

We ^Dgrow__
*
__, but ^Dsus4grow a-^Dpart We ^Dlive__
*
__, but ^Dsus4more ^Dalone Em * C The more to be, the more to see____ * To cry aloud that we are free Bb6 * * A * To hide our ancient fear(s) of being alone______

And how we live in darkness / Embracing spiteful cold Refusing any answers / For no man can be told That Delivery is delayed until at last we're made aware

And ^Bmfirst reach for love, to *
find 'twas ^Aalways ^Gthe^G/F#re_____^Em__

NOTES: - Tuning: DADGBE - Strings (fingerpicking): B+2, 4 3, B 2, 4 3 - A#dim: Rogers: x12020, posted x12320 (both are correct) - Original: Steve-o Bananafish , 20 Jan 1995 - Revised: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca), 24 Jan, 1995

Rogers Stan - Delivery delayed (chords)