Intro / “Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---| Verse: e|--3--------0-----------| B|--0/1------1-----------| G|--0--------0-----------| D|--0--------2-----------| A|--2--------3-----------| E|--3--------3-----------| Caught my eye, in a flash of lightning in the rain Out in the darkness, with a banjo in your hands You came into the firelight, to the circle from the gloom *thing* I was standing child like, while you got yourself in tune And a bridge player, could be an all-time player too But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do is He only gets on job to do a slide of the whole form two frets up “Thing” - Tu-do-do You played your melody, it was too much for me It froze my flesh down, to minus nine degrees I was passing a grave yard, full of flowers on mother’s day *thing* That’s the last time I let a stranger rip my heart this way Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---| Now a good mother, could be a dashboard drummer to And a bridge player, be an all time player when he’s through But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do *Notice, , two frets up Solo also played while Gillian plays the “Thing”: e|---3----3----0----0---| B|---0----0----0----1---| G|---0----0----0----0---| D|---0----0----2----2---| A|---2----0----2----3---| E|---3----2----0----3---| When your trial was finished, you slipped out in the quiet Not trying to follow, my shoes just caught on fire So I... searched the camp ground, I never saw your face again Well you had, a devil woman, just a bluegrass friend Cause a left-winger, could be a bluegrass singer too, and that’s a hard lonesome truth And some hard liquor, could make a guitar picker out of you But a knuckleball catcher, only gets one job to do Tu-do-do Tu-do-do Tu-do-do

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