Oh Sister

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this is a great song, im upset that it never got published for the world to hear
i tabbed this in a hurry so all the chords might not line up exactly but oh well, i
you are smart enough to figure it out anyway : )
to find more songs jeff wrote that werent ever recorded, check out this site. you can
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[Verse 1]
G
Oh sister, don't be afraid of me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
C
Just like the rest of them did
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped
G C G
That were supposed to be glorious and fine
G
Oh sister, won't you believe in me
I only wanted to be hard on your family
C
Here with you now in the zillionth infirmary
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
G C G
All of the time
G
And oh sister
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me
C
Now that my moods are not what the used to be
there is but no one alive laying next to me
G C G
for such a long time
G
Oh sister, sweet brown and beulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
C
there in the parlor all naked in front of me
[Verse 2]
G C G
Watching the lights from the cracks making archery animal designs
Em C
Rose Wallace Goldeline just moves her mouth over anything
G D
Fleshy free and flowering with oranges out in the open
Em
But don't you waste your sins again
C
She don't need you
or won't fuck your friends
G D
And you, you're American, so important boiling over
[Verse 3]
Em
To prove that she must still exist
C
she moves herself about her fist
G
and never ever ever give a shit
D
about all those words you're wasting again
Em C G
Some pretty bright and bubbly wondrous dream
D
You'd like to kill and claim
And claim her as your own
Em
But don't you worry
C G D
All those dainty and dirty emotions just go away and fade out on their own
G
Sister, now that we're grieving
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
C
All over each other and without even speaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
G C G
Whatever comes next
G
And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
C
That you'll have to carry home drunk every evening from the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
G C G
Under your sheets
G
And oh sister
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
C
forgetting you ever could once had the feeling that made you keep on
G C G
and pretend you were breathing of all of this world
In an age of empty rings
D C
I don't want to feel the thing
G C G
I don't even want to know
D
and Rose Wallace Goldeline
C
don't you ever die on me
G
all the way it goes and flows

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this is a great song, im upset that it never got published for the world to hear
i tabbed this in a hurry so all the chords might not line up exactly but oh well, i 
you are smart enough to figure it out anyway : )
to find more songs jeff wrote that werent ever recorded, check out this site. you can 
click to listen or right click and then click "save target as" if youd like to save them 
your computer http://www.the-collective.net/~sashwap/media.html
[Verse 1]
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped
I only wanted to be hard on your family
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me
there is but no one alive laying next to me
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry
[Verse 2]
or won't fuck your friends
[Verse 3]
And claim her as your own
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
You're getting married with some angry twister
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning
In an age of empty rings

Oh Sister Chords by Neutral Milk Hotel

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