Tuning: Standard, Capo 2ndThis is a correction of a tab I found here. The bass suspensions were wrong inevery other version.C D/F# G/B CThere are times that walk from you like some passing afternoonG D/F# C DSummer warmed the open window of her honeymoonC D/F# G/B CAnd she chose a yard to burn, but the ground remembers herG D/F# C DWooden spoons, her children stir her bougainvillea blooms(Continue the same pattern for the rest of the song)There are things that drift away like our endless, numbered daysAutumn blew the quilt right off the perfect bed she madeAnd she's chosen to believe in the hymns her mother singsSunday pulls its children from their piles of fallen leavesThere are sailing ships that pass all our bodies in the grassSpringtime calls her children 'till she lets them go at lastAnd she's chosen where to be, though she's lost her wedding ringSomewhere near her misplaced jar of bougainvillea seedsThere are things we can't recall, blind as night that finds us allWinter tucks her children in, her fragile china dollsBut my hands remember hers, rolling 'round the shaded fernsNaked arms, her secrets still like songs I'd never learnedThere are names across the sea, only now I do believeSometimes, with the windows closed, she'll sit and think of meBut she'll mend his tattered clothes and they'll kiss as if they knowA baby sleeps in all our bones, so scared to be alone
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