this tab is 100% correct. Based of the video of him playing it here: http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQNmEQHkSkg&feature=related. It's a very fast song to
play, chord changes can be difficult at first
Verse 1:
There’s a backyard show where everybody goes
‘cause everybody knows at this masquerade
They wear strange costumes and heave water balloons
and one kid’s dressed up like a deviled egg
That’s when I say, “ What’s this? There’s something that I’ve missed
there ain’t nothing like this back in Upstate”
But “When in Louisville,” they say, “join the crazy ballet”
So with blazing waterguns I join the fray
Chorus:
Yes I learned on that day what local flavor means
With a dinner made from dumpsters on Kentucky streets
You won’t learn anything tied up in restaurant chains
F#m D A E (dampen all strings)
Why bother traveling if it all just tastes the same?
Interlude: A,D x 3 E, Repeat.
Verse 2:
On the guidebook page a travel-weary sage
is sharing the best secrets from her latest trek
Then the tourists come and money builds it up and
pretty soon the place is just a wreck
But when I hit the road I want pie a la mode
from a café where they don’t wear uniforms
Where the salt of the earth season their hometown turf
with art that you can’t find in any store
Chorus:
Yes I know there’s nothing new out on the interstate
And a journey’s pointless if the asphalt mediates
You won’t find anything if you’re tied with retail chains
Why bother traveling if it all just looks the same
Verse 3:( First five lines are a capella)
There’s a warehouse show out in New Mexico and
films are being screened up on a Brooklyn roof
Basement galleries in Knoxville,
Tennessee and Tallahassee games under the moon
So will you come with me to either shining sea
to cleanse the monoculture from our souls?
Then we’ll roam town to town listening for any sound
that can tell us they’re having a show
(single strums)A D A D
So raise a glass of your sweat to acknowledge the debt
that we owe to our most gracious hosts