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Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":548812,"song":"Oh Sister","artist":"Neutral Milk Hotel","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/548812-oh-sister-chords-by-neutral-milk-hotel/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/548812?type=chord","rating":4.98681,"votes":78,"content":"this is a great song, im upset that it never got published for the world to hear\r\n\r\ni tabbed this in a hurry so all the chords might not line up exactly but oh well, i \r\nyou are smart enough to figure it out anyway : )\r\n\r\nto find more songs jeff wrote that werent ever recorded, check out this site. you can \r\nclick to listen or right click and then click \"save target as\" if youd like to save them \r\nyour computer http://www.the-collective.net/~sashwap/media.html\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh sister, don't be afraid of me[/tab]\r\nI won't be nailing you down in the nursery\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust like the rest of them did[/tab]\r\nWith those watery, wandering fingers that slipped\r\n[tab]                         [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nThat were supposed to be glorious and fine[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh sister, won't you believe in me[/tab]\r\nI only wanted to be hard on your family\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nHere with you now in the zillionth infirmary[/tab]\r\nA mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]           [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAll of the time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd oh sister[/tab]\r\nSweet brown and comely\r\nI will be be milking with you making fun of me\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nNow that my moods are not what the used to be[/tab]\r\nthere is but no one alive laying next to me\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nfor such a long time[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nOh sister, sweet brown and beulahry[/tab]\r\nmilk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nthere in the parlor all naked in front of me[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n\r\n[tab]                                                   [ch]G[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWatching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]                            [ch]C[/ch]\r\nRose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nFleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut don't you waste your sins again[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nShe don't need you[/tab]\r\nor won't fuck your friends\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                               [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAnd you, you're American, so important boiling over[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nTo prove that she must still exist[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nshe moves herself about her fist[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nand never ever ever give a shit[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]\r\nabout all those words you're wasting again[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSome pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream[/tab]\r\n[tab]              [ch]D[/ch]\r\nYou'd like to kill and claim[/tab]\r\nAnd claim her as your own\r\n[tab][ch]Em[/ch]\r\nBut don't you worry[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]                       [ch]G[/ch]                 [ch]D[/ch]\r\nAll those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nSister, now that we're grieving[/tab]\r\nOur fingers will falter\r\nOur lungs will be leaking\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nAll over each other and without even speaking[/tab]\r\nWe'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]                [ch]C[/ch] [ch]G[/ch]\r\nWhatever comes next[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd oh sister[/tab]\r\nYou're getting married with some angry twister\r\n[tab]                                 [ch]C[/ch]\r\nThat you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery[/tab]\r\nAnd if he makes it back half alive you can bury him\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nUnder your sheets[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd oh sister[/tab]\r\nnow that we're leaving\r\nI can not imagine there is any meaning\r\n[tab][ch]C[/ch]\r\nforgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on[/tab]\r\n[tab]                                  [ch]G[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nand pretend you were breathing of all of this world[/tab]\r\nIn an age of empty rings\r\n[tab][ch]D[/ch]                          [ch]C[/ch]\r\nI don't want to feel the thing[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]G[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]  [ch]G[/ch]\r\nI don't even want to know[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                       [ch]D[/ch]\r\nand Rose Wallace Goldeline[/tab]\r\n[tab]                      [ch]C[/ch]\r\ndon't you ever die on me[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]G[/ch]\r\nall the way it goes and flows[/tab]","plain_text":"this is a great song, im upset that it never got published for the world to hear\n\ni tabbed this in a hurry so all the chords might not line up exactly but oh well, i \nyou are smart enough to figure it out anyway : )\n\nto find more songs jeff wrote that werent ever recorded, check out this site. you can \nclick to listen or right click and then click \"save target as\" if youd like to save them \nyour computer http://www.the-collective.net/~sashwap/media.html\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\nI won't be nailing you down in the nursery\n\nWith those watery, wandering fingers that slipped\n\n\nI only wanted to be hard on your family\n\nA mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany\n\n\nSweet brown and comely\nI will be be milking with you making fun of me\n\nthere is but no one alive laying next to me\n\n\nmilk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\nor won't fuck your friends\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnd claim her as your own\n\n\n\nOur fingers will falter\nOur lungs will be leaking\n\nWe'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting\n\n\nYou're getting married with some angry twister\n\nAnd if he makes it back half alive you can bury him\n\n\nnow that we're leaving\nI can not imagine there is any meaning\n\n\nIn an age of empty rings","chords":["G","C","A","Em","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]}}}