BLUE RODEO
  

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From: Drake Hirasawa 
Subject: CRD: Five Days in May by Blue Rodeo

5 Days In May - Blue Rodeo
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>From the CD: Five Days in July
Words and Music by: Jim Cuddy and Greg Keelor
Transcribed by: drake@sgl.ists.ca (Drake Hirasawa)
Lyrics copied from Blue Rodeo website: www.bluerodeo.com


Key: Em

Intro:

Em  D  Am  C

Verse:
Em            
They met in a hurricane	
D 
Standing in the shelter out of the rain	
Am                         C
She tucked a note into his hand	
Em
Later on they took his car
D
Drove on down where the beaches are
Am                       C
He wrote her name in the sand	
G          F             C    D
Never even let go of her hand	


Somehow they stayed that way	
For those 5 days in May
Made all the stars around them shine
Funny how you can look in vain
Living on nerves and such sweet pain
The loneliness that cuts so fine
To find the face you've seen a thousand times	


Chorus:
C
Sometimes the world begins	
C
To set you up on your feet again	
Bm                           D
It wipes the tears from your eyes	   	
C
How will you ever know	
C
The way that circumstances go	
Bm                            D
Always going to hit you by surprise	
  Am
I know my past
G/B
You were there
   C               Em7/C
In everything I've done
            Em
You are the one



Looking back it's hard to tell	
Why they stood while others fell
Spend your life working it out	
All I know is one cloudy day
They both just ran away
Rain on the windshield heading South	
She loved the lines around his mouth	

(Chorus)



Notes:
Use an alternating bass/strum pattern, except for last four lines of
chorus (from "I know my past...") where the chords are finger-plucked
on strings 2 through 5 only.  Those chords are:
	Am   	X0221X
	G/B  	X2000X
	C    	X3201X
	Em7/C	X3243X