Prison Food

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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

PRISON FOOD                         BEN FOLDS

KEY OF G

-5b  -6   -5b  -6b
We walked the earth

-5b  -6    -6  -6 -6   -6  -6 -6b
We talked and nev-er spoke a word

-5b  -6  -6   -6  -6  -6  -6  -6b -5b -6
She won-ders who will be the first to go

Verse 2 same as 1
I said you know,
the biggest things we gotta face alone
Don't wan-na waste time and go

(CHORUS)

-5 -6b -5 -6b -5 -5  -5 -6b -5 -6b -5 -5
A-lone a-lone a-gain a-lone a-lone a-gain

(BRIDGE)

-4   7  -4 -7  -4     7   7  7  7   7   7 -7
A trace of me that glows in my pe-riph-er-y

 -4  7  7   7  7   7   7  -7 -4  7
And ev-ry time I turn to see it goes

(CHORUS)

  -7   -7 -7   7  7  7  -8  -8
Float-ing by like a sat-el-lite

 7   7   -8  -8     -7     7   -8 8   8
To pass the time, you'll float by a-gain

 -8 -8 -8  -8   7  7   7   7   7   -8   -8
And I can tell you a-bout the lit-tle things

 7  7    -8    -8  -4 -4   
So you don't think a-bout 

 5   -5    5    -4 4   -3
the big things for a while

REPEAT FIRST VERSE

(CHORUS TWICE TO END)

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