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From: Steve-o Bananafish <spostel@cs.oberlin.edu> 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 &Dquot;BeginninGg"' From when iDs there a soul' 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 <bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca> 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

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early is Be-Dginning_Dmaj7_____ Gmaj7....... from

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when is there a Dsoul_Dmaj7_____ Gmaj7....... Do

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we disco-Dver living_Dmaj7_____ Gmaj7....... or,

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somehow, are__D__ we told_Dmaj7_____ In Asudden pain, in

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empty cold, in A#dimblinding light of

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day We're Bmgiven breath and it

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takes our Abreath a-Gway

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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 Bmall at once we're

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called Aupon G. to live G/F# Em

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(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

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matter Ahow it's GgroG/F#wn_____Em_____A7__
We Dgrow__

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__, but Dsus4grow a-Dpart We Dlive__

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__, but Dsus4more Dalone The Emmore to be, the

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more to see__C__ To cry aloud that

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we are free To Bb6hide our ancient

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fear(s) of

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being alone_A___

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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

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find 'twas Aalways GtheG/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 <spostel@cs.oberlin.edu>, 20 Jan 1995 - Revised: Barrie McCombs (bmccombs@acs.ucalgary.ca), 24 Jan, 1995