You Get Bigger As You Go - Chords/TAB

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You Get Bigger As You Go - Bruce Cockburn
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From "Humans".
Transcribed and tabbed by Peter (friends_r4@yahoo.com)
Capo 2nd fret
Tuning D A D F A D

Chord shapes
I    x32232   [half barre 2nd fret]
II   x02432   [half barre 2nd fret]
III  22022x
IV   00010x
V    111210   [half barre 1st fret, index finger frets 3 bass strings]
VI   111000   [half barre 1st fret]
VII  222200   [half barre 2nd fret, middle finger on "F" string]
VIII 33x000   [half barre 3rd fret, index finger]
IX   5556x0   [half barre 5th fret]
X    99999x   [full barre 9th fret]
XI   44244x   [little finger frets both high notes]
XII  05445x   [index finger for both 4th fret notes]
     
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||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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            So I find out what the    lux-ur- y   of  hate    is


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 |----------0---------------0------|----------0---------------0------|
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            As ex- ci- ting may-be    as  do- ing the di-    shes


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 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
          Face toward window                                light re-


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    ceived      


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        You walk a- way to  see a     film    see some people see a


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    man    stab in throat  twist in   gut    all too clear   not too


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 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
   new   all been done be-fore     planet breathes exhaustion staggers 


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    on    Enemy  anger  impotent gun grease too many thoughts too dogshit


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 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------|
   tired one small step for freedom                    from  foregone

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 |--2------------------------------|--0------------------------------|| 
   conclusion

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||--1------------------------------|--1------------------------------|
                                              You get big-ger as  you    
                                              You get big-ger as  you 

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    go                                        no one told me  I  just
    go                                        spent all day afraid to

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    know                                bales of memory like boats in
    talk                                   redneck children laugh out

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 |----------5---------------5------|----------5---------------5------|
 |------5-----------------------5--|------5-----------------------5--|
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    tow                                       you get bigger  as you
    loud                                      I being target live and

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 |----------9---------------9------|----------2---------------2------|
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    go 
    walk

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SOLO (violin)
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||---------------------------------|---------------------------------|

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 |---------------------------------|---------------------------------||
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 |--2------------------------------|--0------------------------------||


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                                              You get big-ger as  you    
                                              You get big-ger as  you 

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    go                                        telephone snarls "don't 
    go                                        news reruns dawn comes 


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    touch me"                        you move in waves like the midnight
    rainbow                             pain takes shape of grimy win-


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    blues                                    you vector of this weird
    dow                                       you get big-ger as you


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 |----------9---------------9------|----------2---------------2------|
 |------9-----------------------9--|------4-----------------------4--|
 |--9------------------------------|--4------------------------------|
    dis-ease 
    go

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                                            1) [repeat]
                                            2) you get bigger  as you

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    go

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                                             you get bigger as  you (repeat x 2)


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