From John s second album Map Or Direction .
www.johnsmithjohnsmith.com
Standard tuning - capo 5th fret
John plays drop D or DADGAD on this, but I m using standard tuning here
Verse 1
=======
/ /
Well I guess that I d die with my friends at my side
/ /
Puzzled young faces just slipped a -way slowly
I thought of the times I was drunk on the railway
/
La - mented the time I was smashed in the square
Verse 2
=======
/ / /
So around I did wander for to find my way home
/ /
On feet made of nothing it s har-der to roam
I trooped up the coastline
A walk on the moor
Saw no big wide river
No glorious faraway shore
Refrain 1
=========
/ / /
And every now and a-gain
/ /
I go into town just to see my old friends
It s such an odd feeling
Their eyes burn like embers
Their minds are these forests
Where thoughts fall as timber
Be-fore I m dragged a-way
Every now and a-gain
Inst
====
/ / /
/ /
f
Verse 3
=======
/ / /
Now I have no form I could climb in her spine
/ /
Her blood is like wine to a ghost drunk on sadness
And time moves on slowly
In time I ll for-give her
Be-cause when she holds hands with him
I know she s thinking of me
Refrain 2
=========
/ / /
And every now and a-gain
/ /
I like to i-magine and I like to pre-tend
It s a glorious feeling I ll be re-membered
For all my good deeds these eighteen De-cembers
Be-fore I m dragged a-way
Every now and a-gain
Change
======
Out-side of the book there is no resurrection
The valley be-low threatens me with a home
Heaven a-bove has no map or direction
When-ever you can cast a glance
To the shadows for me
Refrain 3 | end
===============
/ / /
Yes I ll try without end
/ /
To seek others like me whom I might be -friend
It drives like a madness there s no way to reach them
You catch just a glimpse
But you never can touch them
Be-fore youâre dragged a-way
Every now
Every now
Every now and a-gain
-----------------------------------------
I hope I ve done it justice!
Kevin O Brien
Watford
England
August 2012
[email protected]