Tabs
Porch Songs
from the album Driving North
Tab by Matt Morrow
Capo VI
Fmaj7: xx3210
Fmaj7sus2: xx3010
C: x32010
Gsus4: 320013
G: 320003
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 (4X)
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2
We sang porch songs like we were rock stars
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 C Gsus4
We drank cheap beer and tried to make it last
Famj7 Fmaj7sus2 Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus4
And it was back in the car close to the corn fields
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 C Gsus4
And we were just looking for something else to call ourselves
Rest stop coffee, postcards back home
Back seat scenes of strange towns, keep driving on, driving on
In the middle of the night we took a wrong turn
Ended up on a mountain in the pine trees and the moonlit earth
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 C Gsus4
Oh, the scattered light, a photograph in mind
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 C Gsus4
Of a summer day, squinting at the sun
Fmaj7 Fmaj7sus2 C Gsus4
It's a warm stone that I carry along
Gsus4 Gsus4
You know I, you know that I
C Gsus4
I've been saving quarters for the toll roads
Fmaj7 C Gsus4
We can pack the car tonight, we can leave the town tomorrow
C Gsus4
Put me on a porch swing out in Portland
Fmaj7 C Gsus4 G Gsus4 G Gsus4 G Gsus4 G
Put me on an F train, roll me back into Brooklyn
Well we closed the bars like we were cowboys
And then we wrote our names in the dirt by the side of the road
And October came and the winter drew near
With the cold fingers digging under the ribs
But we were campfire girls, kicking up the leaves
And we returned to our jobs with our clothes smelling like wood smoke
Oh, the scattered light, a photograph in mind
Of a summer day, squinting at the sun
It's a warm stone that I carry along
You know I, you know that I
I've been saving quarters for the toll roads
We can pack the car tonight, we can leave the town tomorrow
Put me on a porch swing out in Portland
Put me on an F train, roll me back into Brooklyn
We sang porch songs like we were rock stars
We drank cheap beer and tried to make it last