Standard (EADGBE)

C#m ( 446654 ) ASUS2 ( 002200 )

As you see you play the Barre? chords with open BE- strings. I don?t know if the chords have other name.

It?s a little bit difficult to play the E and ESUS4 chords like Shawn do. Listen to the song and you

it out.

This way to play the song is close to the original.

Intro

Play /

on a mantle made of oakwood

there's a photograph from my childhood

it was taken in the desert early light

i look a lot like a leprechaun

with a mexican vest and a red hippie hat on

maracas in my left hand, stick in my right

there are canyons there are caverns

there are boarder roadside taverns

i am held captive by the big blue sky above me

she naps with the tv on

i smell the june cut grass from my pappy's lawn

i play alone in the little room upstairs

there are lincoln logs and cookie tins

colored blocks and wars to win

i draw and i dream and beat my drums up there

there are circus lights and maple leaves

there are daffodils and dogwood trees

i am held captive by the big blue sky above me

Between here play the following chords (fingerplay):

4xx400 5xx400 7xx800 2X and play at last

now the coffee's strong

and the fruit's all wrong

and my wakeup call's for somebody else

and the tv's hoax and neurosis jokes

always keep my laughing at myself

and i laugh a lot that's what i do

and i learn the things i never knew

and i see canyons i see caverns

i see border roadside taverns

and i am held captive by the big blue sky above me

i am held captive only by the big blue sky

and fade out

i am held captive by the big blue sky above me

Roger Loftaas

29.08.2001