The Lowering (A Sad Day In Greenvilletown)

by The Avett Brothers · posted by deleted

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How to read this tab — notation key

+: Blow note
−: Draw note
b or ': Half-step bend
bb or '': Two half-step bend
bbb or ''': Three half-step bend
(###): Chord — relevant hole numbers in parentheses
< or *: Push the button in (chromatic harmonica)

Full reference and posting tips in the tab guide.

Tab

 4 -4 -5   5     5   -5    -4   4
If I had known, your heart was down
 4   -5  5  -4   4  -4   5     -4 
That lonely day in Greenville town
  4  5  -4    -5   6    -6   -5   5
Then I would have been more concerned
 4  -5 5  -4 6  -5 5   -4
But later on I truly learned
 4  -4  5   -5   6  -6 6  5
How it can feel in every bone
-4  4 4   -4     5   -5   6 5 
To really see you're all alone
 4   -4    5    6    5    -5
But I'll I'll kiss your head
 4     5     6    5    -5
When death finds your bed
 4    5   -4  43
And you are gone

 4   4 -4 -5   5   5   -5 -4  4   4 
And if I had seen,the way it would be
 4   -5     5    -4      4   -4  5   -4 4
I'd hushed your cries, when you came to me
 4 5  -4   -5   6  -6  -5 5  5
If I could do what I did to you
 4   -5  5  -4   4  -4  5    -4   4   4  -4  4
The same to me that I would love for you to see
 4   -4   5   6    5 -5
That I sleep with remorse
 4   -4 5   5      6    5  -5
And regret hangs round my door...
 4  5 -4   43
For ever more.

 If I had known the lowering tide
 Was lowering with the way you felt inside
 If I had known all hope was gone
 A broken heart and a broken home
 That pierced, my lover's past
 And carved a lonely path...
 For her to walk

 So if ever someone one says to you,
 Life isn't fair, get used to it
 Then you should say 'Well it might be
 If folks like you would let it be"
 But I'll kiss your head
 When death becomes my bed
 And I am gone