Oh Sister - Neutral Milk Hotel

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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 
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[Verse 1]


Oh sister, don

't be afraid o

f me
I won't be nailing you down in the nursery

Just like the 

rest of them d

id
With those watery, wandering fingers that slipped
              
That were supp

             
osed to be glo

             
rious and fine

Oh sister, won

't you believe

 in me
I only wanted to be hard on your family

Here with you 

now in the zil

lionth infirma

ry
A mother makes frantic and drunk calls from Germany
            
All of the tim


e

And oh sister
Sweet brown and comely
I will be be milking with you making fun of me

Now that my mo

ods are not wh

at the used to

 be
there is but no one alive laying next to me
             
for such a lon

    
g time

Oh sister, swe

et brown and b

eulahry
milk from your blisters on your grandmother's jewelry

there in the p

arlor all nake

d in front of 

me


[Verse 2]

              
Watching the l

              
ights from the

              
 cracks making

             
 archery anima

       
l designs
            
Rose Wallace G

              
oldeline just 

  
moves her mout

h over anythin

g
             
Fleshy free an

              
d flowering wi

      
th oranges out

 in the open

But don't you 

waste your sin

s again

She don't need

 you
or won't fuck your friends
             
And you, you'r

              
e American, so

    
 important boi

ling over


[Verse 3]


To prove that 

she must still

 exist

she moves hers

elf about her 

fist

and never ever

 ever give a s

hit

about all thos

e words you're

 wasting again
           
Some pretty br

              
ight and bubbl

  
y wondrous dre

am
              
You'd like to 


kill and claim
And claim her as your own

But don't you 

worry
             
All those dain

             
ty and dirty e

              
motions just g


o away and fad

e out on their

 own

Sister, now th

at we're griev

ing
Our fingers will falter
Our lungs will be leaking

All over each 

other and with

out even speak

ing
We'll know that it's over and smiling or greeting
             
Whatever comes

    
 next

And oh sister
You're getting married with some angry twister
              
That you'll ha

              
ve to carry ho

     
me drunk every

 evening from 

the cemetery
And if he makes it back half alive you can bury him
             
Under your she

  
ets

And oh sister
now that we're leaving
I can not imagine there is any meaning

forgetting you

 ever could on

ce had the fee

ling that made

 you keep on
              
and pretend yo

              
u were breathi

             
ng of all of t

       
his world
In an age of empty rings
             
I don't want t

             
o feel the thi

ng
              
I don't even w

                  
ant to know

              
and Rose Walla

         
ce Goldeline
              
don't you ever

        
 die on me
              
all the way it

            
 goes and flow

s