Josh Ritter

Josh Ritter - Best For The Best guitar tab

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D---7---7\\6-6--4--2------4---4-----------------|

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E A5 E

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times

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She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind

E A5 E

And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind

E A5 E

I realized that Illinois was more than I could stand

E A5 E

They say working's best 'cause poverty is hell on a man

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

Now I ride a lazy river through the Mississippi fan

E A5 E

And if the best is for the best then the best can be damned

*2

E A5 E

I spent a few years on the Queen of Spain

E A5 E

She was a leaky little boat that went up in flames

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

When the boiler blew some people started naming names

E A5 E

But if the best is for the best I guess the best is to blame

E A5 E

I spent a few more as the Cairo Crown

E A5 E

A heavyweight wrestler in the Midwest towns

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

But I was lonesome for a girl who could pin me down

E A5 E

They say the best is for the best but that's not what I've found

*2, repeat intro

E A5 E

Now I listen to my sweetheart and I listen to my thirst

E A5 E

I don't spend time listening to other people's words

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

Sometimes they're right most times the reverse

E A5 E

They say the best is for the best when the best is for the worse

E A5 E

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times

E A5 E

She made me a shirt out of fives and dimes

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9*

Now she's gone but when I wear it she crosses my mind

E A5 E

And if the best is for the best then the best is unkind

E A5 E

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times

E A5 E

Once I knew a girl in the hard hard times

Chords:

A5 A/G# A/F# F#sus2add9 (?) :)

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Run "*" follows the descending bassline of the 3rd line of each stanza

(it's also part of the intro picking)

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Run *2 is an interlude between the 1st and 2nd and between the 3rd and

4th stanzas.

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B-------0-----0--------0---0--------0-----0--------0---|

G-----------2---------------------------2------1-------| back to

D-----4---4----------6---6--------4---4----------2-----| E... (etc)

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