Tom: Em
5 Days In May - Blue Rodeo
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From the CD: Five Days in July
Words and Music by: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor
Transcribed by: drake@sgl.ists.ca (Drake Hirasawa)
[Intro]
Em D Am C
[Verse 1]
Em
They met in a hurricane
D
Standing in the shelter out of the rain
Am C
She tucked a note into his hand
Em
Later on they took his car
D
Drove on down where the beaches are
Am C
He wrote her name in the sand
G F C D
Never even let go of her hand
[Instrumental]
Em D Am C
[Verse 2]
Em
Somehow they stayed that way
D
For those 5 days in May
Am C
Made all the stars around them shine
Em
Funny how you can look in vain
D
Living on nerves and such sweet pain
Am C
The loneliness that cuts so fine
G F C D
To find the face you've seen a thousand times
[Chorus]
C
Sometimes the world begins
C
To set you up on your feet again
Bm D
It wipes the tears from your eyes
C
How will you ever know
C
The way that circumstances go
Bm D
Always gonna hit you by surprise
Am
I know my past
G/B
You were there
C Em7/C
In everything I've done
Em
You are the one
[Instrumental] (w/ Harmonica)
Em D Am C x4
[Verse 3]
Em
Looking back it's hard to tell
D
Why they stood while others fell
Am C
Spend your life working it out
Em
All I know is one cloudy day
D
They both just ran away
Am C
Rain on the windshield heading south
G F C D
Oh she loved the lines around his mouth
[Chorus]
C
Sometimes the world begins
C
To set you up on your feet again
Bm D
I know it wipes the tears from your eyes
C
How will you ever know
C
The way that circumstances go
Bm D
Always gonna hit you by surprise
Am
I know my past
G/B
You were there
C Em7/C
In everything I've done
Em
You are the one
[Instrumental] (Piano and Guitar)
Em D Am C x14
Em
Notes:
Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of
chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked
on strings 2 through 5 only. Those chords are:
Am x0221x
G/B x2000x
C x3201x
Em7/C x3243x
