Rhythm Of Her Name

Am F Am F Am F C Am

[Verse 1]

       Am          F             C             G
In the City of the Elms where we smoked in the stalls
       Am       F            C           G
In our rogue adolescence, we tore up the halls
    Am            F                       C                     G
She caught my eye across the room, with a wink and a tip of the hood
   F                              G           Am       G
We waited for the moment, then we shot to the woods

[Verse 2]

    Am                 F                   C         G
She smoked a makeshift pipe and carved her name in a stone
       Am             F           C      G
In the wall of an abandoned old colonial home
    Am              F               C          G
Now remnants of her living days are names in a wall
           F                             G           Am
They'll be gone with the ashes when they crumble and fall
F                             G           Am      G
Gone with the ashes when they crumble and fall

[Chorus]

    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
    F       C            G             Am
And I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
F       C            G
I can't remember the rhythm of her name
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[Verse 3]

    Am                F               C          G
The doors were always knockin' like a train come alive
      Am                F              C        G
Their names, I couldn't say, but their faces survived
   Am                  F                   C               G
We drank the beers and sung the cheers and wore our voices out
   F                                G              Am       G
We polished off the bottle that she stole from the house

[Verse 4]

    Am              F                C    G
And like a group of vagrants round a fire alight
   Am                F                C       G
Contented, drunk and careless, like a teenage night
  Am                 F                 C         G
I still remember the room in which she pulled me away
            F                         G         Am
And now I'm callin' out her name in a moment of grey
    F                         G         Am      G
I'm callin' out her name in a moment of grey

[Chorus]

    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
    F       C            G             Am
And I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
F       C            G
I can't remember the rhythm of her name
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[Verse 5]
          Am                 F                C            G
You could count the years in ashes, you could count 'em in stone
       Am             F                 C           G
You'll never stop the time with all the watches you own
    Am               F               C          G
The stillness in her casket with the ghost of a smile
    F                           G      Am
Was frozen for a moment, if not only a while
F                           G      Am
Frozen for a moment, if not only a while

[Chorus]

    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
    F       C            G             Am
And I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
F       C            G
I can't remember the rhythm of her name
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[Outro]

    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
    F       C            G             Am
And I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
F       C            G             C
I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
    F       C            G             Am
And I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    F       C            G           Am
And I can't remember the rhythm they played
F       C            G
I can't remember the rhythm of her name
    C                          F            C
Her name is callin' out from a carving in a stone
  F                   C             G           C
I swear I'll carve it deeper when I make my way home