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San Francisco
Words and music by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard from the album “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”
Capo 2,
 Am   G   D- intro and verse chords
The church is blowing a sad windblown “Kathleen”
On the bells of the skid row slums
I wake up goopy and woebegone
At the Mars Hotel on 4th and Howard
Am G D
Do you remember dancing girls in St. Louis
Stan Getz on the hi-fi under midnight kitchen bulbs
We all agree it’s too big to keep up with
That we’re surrounded by life – that we’ll
Never understand it
[  Am] The great magical city of the [  E] Gandharvas [  F]
Of San Francis [  E] co [  Dm] [  Am] 
Am G D
Where is the writer who could bring you
Sobbing through the bed fucking bed cribs
Of the moon to see it all even unto
Some robbery of the heart at dawn
When no one cares
Am G D
I’m lost among strange agitators of the heart
We center it all by swigging from the bottle
All for two sticks of loco weed
That grows by itself in Texas because god wanted it
[  Am] The great magical city of the [  E] Gandharvas [  F]
Of San Francis [  E] co [  Dm] [  Am] 
Am G D
Freak out on harmonica between the verses and at the end.

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San Francisco

by Jay Farrar

Lyrics & chords · Original key · Capo on fret 2 (as written in this song)

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San Francisco

Words and music by Jay Farrar and Benjamin Gibbard from the album “One Fast Move Or I’m Gone”

Capo 2,

Am G D

- intro and verse chords

The church is blowing a sad windblown “Kathleen”

On the bells of the skid row slums

I wake up goopy and woebegone

At the Mars Hotel on 4th and Howard

Am G D

Do you remember dancing girls in St. Louis

Stan Getz on the hi-fi under midnight kitchen bulbs

We all agree it’s too big to keep up with

That we’re surrounded by life – that we’ll

Never understand it

Am E F

[ ] The great magical city of the [ ] Gandharvas [ ]

E Dm Am

Of San Francis [ ] co [ ] [ ]

Am G D

Where is the writer who could bring you

Sobbing through the bed fucking bed cribs

Of the moon to see it all even unto

Some robbery of the heart at dawn

When no one cares

Am G D

I’m lost among strange agitators of the heart

We center it all by swigging from the bottle

All for two sticks of loco weed

That grows by itself in Texas because god wanted it

Am E F

[ ] The great magical city of the [ ] Gandharvas [ ]

E Dm Am

Of San Francis [ ] co [ ] [ ]

Am G D

Freak out on harmonica between the verses and at the end.

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