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Your Protector

by Fleet Foxes · posted by gene

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Draw note
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Half-step bend
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Tab


-6   -6 -7  7   -8  8
She left a week to roam 

 9    8   8   -8   -8  -8   8
Your pro-tec-tor's com-ing home 

 -6   -7  7   -8  -7 -6   6  5
Keep your se-crets where you go 

 8    -8  -8  -8  7 -7  -6
Safe from the out-side world



-6  -6  -7  7   -8    8
You walk a-long the stream 

 9    8     8    -8 -8 -8  -8    8
Your head caught in  a wak-ing dream 

 -6  -7   7   -8   -7   7   -6
Your pro-tec-tor's com-ing home

 8  -8 8  7 -6
Com- ing  home 



-5  6  -6  6  -6  6  -6   -6  7  -6
As you lay to die be-side me, ba-by 

-6 -6   -6   7  -7  -7 -6
On the morn-ing you  came

 -5    6   -6   7 -7  -6
Would you wait   for  me

 7  7  -6  -6    6    -6   6  -6
The o-ther one would wait for me






As you lay to die beside me, baby 
On the morning you came
Would you wait for me
The other one would wait for me

-6   7   7    7  7   7
You run with the de-vil  

-6   7   7    7  7   7
You run with the de-vil  

8 -8 8    8 -8 8
 Ooh        Ooh 

8 -8 8 -8 8 -9 8 -8
       Ooh

8 -8 9 8 -8 8
     Ooh

7 -7 -6 -6  -7
     Ooh

 8    9     -10   10  9   8
Tell your brother to  be good 

 8    9    -10   10  -10 9 -8   8 
Tell your sister do  not be a ghost (?) 

 8    9   -10 9 -10  10  9   8
Tell your    mother  not to wait 

 8    9    -10    10 -10 9   8
Tell your father that I was good 


As you lay to die beside me, baby 
On the morning you came 
Would you wait for me
The other one would wait for me


Ooh ooh ooh 
(As above, two times.)
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