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Floater Too Much To Ask

Key: F

Introduction:

 F7           F#º           F#7         F7 
verse 1
 F7                    F7 
Down over the window
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Come the dazzling sunlit rays
                         F7                                            F7 
Through the back alleys, through the blinds,
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Another one of them endless days
verse 2
 F7                    F7 
Honey bees are buzzing
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Leaves begin to stir
 F7                                            F7 
I'm in love with my second cousin
                       Bb                           Ebm                         Bb     A7 
I tell myself I could be happy forever with her.
Bridge 1
 Dm                                 A7 
I keep listening for footsteps,
 Dm                                               Bb     A7 
But I ain't ever hearing any
 Dm                                                 A7 
From the boat, I fish for bullheads
 Dm                       C/E                         F      
I catch a lot, sometimes too many
verse 3
 F7                            F7 
A summer breeze is blowin',
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A squall is setting in.
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Sometimes it's just plain stupid
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To get into any kind of wind.
Interlude 1
 F7           F#º           F#7         F7 
verse 4
 F7                                                                                    F7 
Well, the old men 'round here sometimes they get on
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bad terms with the younger men,
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Old, young - age don't carry weight
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It doesn't matter in the end
Verse 5
 F7                                                                                      F7 
One of the bosses' hangers-on sometimes comes to call
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At times you least expect,
 F7                                                                                                F7 
Tryin' to bully you, strong-arm you, inspire you with fear.
 Bb                     Ebm             Bb     A7 
It has the opposite effect
Bridge 2
 Dm                                                                             A7 
There's a new grove of trees on the outskirts of town
 Dm                                   Bb     A7 
The old one - long gone.
 Dm                                             A7 
Timber, two foot six across,
 Dm                       C/E               F      
Burns with the bark still on.
Verse 6
 F7                          F7 
They say times are hard,
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If you don't believe it you can follow your nose.
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It don't bother me, times are hard everywhere,
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We will just have to see how it goes.
Interlude 2
 F7           F#º           F#7         F7 
Verse 7
 F7                                                        F7 
My old man he's like some feudal lord,
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Got more lives than a cat.
 F7                                                                                        F7 
I've never seen him quarrel with my mother even once.
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Things come alive or they fall flat.
Verse 8
 F7                                            F7 
You can smell the pine wood burnin'
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You can hear the school-bell ring.
 F7                                                              F7 
Got to get up near the teacher, if you can
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If you wanna learn anything.
Bridge 3
 Dm                                                                             A7 
Romeo, he said to Juliet, "You got a poor complexion
 Dm                                                                                           Bb     A7 
It don't give you an appearance of a youthful touch."
 Dm                                                                             A7 
Juliet said back to Romeo, "Why don't you just shove off
 Dm                 C/E               F      
If it bothers you so much."
Verse 9
 F7                                                                    F7 
They all got out of here any way they could -
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Cold rain can give you the shivers.
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They went down the Ohio, the Cumberland, the Tennessee,
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All the rest of them rebel rivers.
Interlude 3
 F7           F#º           F#7         F7 
verse 10
 F7                                                                                            F7 
If you ever try to interfere with me, or cross my path again,
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You do so at the peril of your own life.
 F7                                                                  F7 
I'm not quite as cool or forgiving as I sound,
 Bb                               Ebm                       Bb 
I've seen enough heartache and strife.
verse 11
 F7                                            F7 
My grandfather was a duck trapper
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He could do it with just dragnets and ropes
 F7                                                                                      F7 
My grandmother could sew new dresses out of old cloth,
 Bb                                 Ebm                                   Bb     A7 
I don't know if they had any dreams or hopes.
Bridge 4
 Dm                                               A7 
I had 'em once though I suppose
 Dm 
To go along with all the ring dancing,
                                                         Bb                       A7 
Christmas Carols on all the Christmas Eves
 Dm                                               A7 
I left all my dreams and hopes
 Dm                       C/E               F      
Buried under tobacco leaves
verse 12
 F7                                                      F7 
Not always easy kicking someone out,
 Bb                                   Eb7                               Bb 
Got to wait awhile, it can be an unpleasant task.
 F7                                                                            F7 
Sometimes somebody wants you to give something up
 Bb                                     Ebm                       Bb 
And, tears or not, it's too much to ask.
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