Taro - alt-J

Tuning: , E A D G B E

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This great song is fairly easy if you know that it's built upon two sets of chords
that alternate until the end. The main set is Dm C Gm F and the other one
(which I couldn't find to be accurate, so I submitted this version) is Cm Gm Bb F

Verse 1
         
Indo - china, 

             
Capa jumps Jee

            
p, two feet cr

           
eep up the roa

d
           
To photo, to r

            
ecord meat lum

  
ps and war,
            
They advance a

             
s does his cha

      
nce oh 
             
 very yellow w

           
hite flash.
           
  A violent wr

              
ench grips mas

            
s, rips light,

              
 tears limbs l

    
ike rags,
            
Burst so high 

    
finally Capa l

ands, 
            
Mine is a wate

           
ry pit. Painle

          
ss with immens

e distance
            
From medic fro

             
m colleague, f


riend, enemy,
            
foe, him five 

              
yards from his

             
 leg, From you

         
 Taro.
           
Do not spray i

           
nto eyes – I h

              
ave sprayed yo

            
u into my eyes

   
.

Verse 2
        
3:10   pm, Cap

              
a pends death,

            
 quivers, last

              
 rattles, last

             
 chokes
            
All colours an

             
d cares glaze 

            
to grey, shriv

              
elled and stri

        
cken to dots,
            
Left hand gras

             
ps what the bo

              
dy grasps not 

   
oh 
              
le photographe

         
 est mort.
         
 3.1415, alive

              
 no longer my 

           
amour, faded f

              
or home May of

  
 '54
            
Doors open lik

             
e arms my love

            
, Painless wit

    
h a great clos

eness
            
To Capa, to Ca

        
pa Capa dark a

fter nothing,
            
re-united with

             
 his leg and w

                 
ith you, Taro.
       
Tar-oh----

     
           
Do not spray i

           
nto eyes – I h

              
ave sprayed yo

             
u into my eyes

    
.
   

       
         Hey T

       
aro!
   

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