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Flashback Blues - John Prine
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Tabbed by: Dave S.
Tuning: Standard
Artist: John Prine
Album: John Prine
Year: 1971
* = strum once
[Intro]
C G C F
C G C
[Verse 1]
C G
While window shopping through the past
C F
I ran across a looking glass
C G C
Reflecting moments remaining in a burned out light
C G
Tragic magic prayers of passion
C F
Stay the same through changing fashions
C G C
They freeze my mind like water on a winter’s night
[Pre-Chorus]
D
Spent most of my youth
G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes
[Chorus]
C G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C G C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.
[Instrumental]
C G C F
C G C
[Verse 2]
C G
Photographs show the laughs
C F
Recorded in between the bad times
C G C
Happy sailors dancing on a sinking ship
C G
Cloudy skies and dead fruit flies
C F
Waving goodbye with tears in my eyes
C G C
Well sure I made it but ya know it was as hell of a trip.
[Pre-Chorus]
D
Spent most of my youth
G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes
[Chorus]
C G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C G C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.
[Verse 3]
C G
And ten times what it grieves you
C F
That’s how much more I hate to leave you now
C G C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.
[Instrumental]
C G C F
C G C
[Pre-Chorus]
D
Spent most of my youth
G
Out hobo cruising
D
And all I got for proof
G*
Is rocks in my pockets and dirt in my shoes
[Chorus]
C G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C G C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.
[Outro]
C G
So goodbye nonbeliever
C F
Don’t you know that I hate to leave here
C G C
So long babe, I got the flashback blues.
